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Evening Standard: Q&A with ECP’s Cari Mitchell
Plans for the biggest overhaul of laws on prostitution for half a century have been put forward by the government. The proposals include licensing brothels and compulsory health checks for prostitutes. Will they really help? We put Cari Mitchell of the English Collective of Prostitutes in the hotseat. How many prostitutes are there in Britain […]
Evening Standard: Letter – women who have no choice
DAVID Blunkett is using the Home Office consultation paper on prostitution, Paying the Price, to promote his own punitive agenda of compulsory health checks and registration with the police (Bold move to legalise brothels, 16 July).The report focuses on the “95 per cent of street workers [who] are drug users” — a statistic we would […]
Legislacion contra el Trafico de Mujeres: Proteccion o deportacion?
Translation Feminist Review 73 2003, anti-trafficking legislation: protection or deportation Revista Feminista N° 73 LEGISLACIÓN CONTRA EL TRÁFICO DE MUJERES: ¿PROTECCIÓN O DEPORTACIÓN? En noviembre de 2002, bajo el pretexto de proteger a las mujeres de la violencia y la explotación, el gobierno británico introdujo una nueva legislación contra el tráfico de mujeres en el marco […]
Feminist Review: Anti-trafficking legislation – protection or deportation?
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BBC News: Soho sex workers speak out against ‘clean up’
By Jon Silverman In November 2002 the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, told a London conference Britain was facing a growing threat from Balkan crime gangs, who make vast profits by smuggling – whether guns, drugs, or women destined for the sex trade. The following month two Albanian cousins were given long jail sentences for living […]
Independent: Trafficking women into prostitution
…”Even other prostitutes are suspicious of claims that the eastern European women are victims of exploitation. Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes said all the Albanian women she had met had claimed to be “working independently” and none had said she was being exploited by criminal racketeers. “There are a number of women […]
Ham & High: Call for ban on King’s Cross kerb crawlers
Camden also looks at making men face up to their sexual urges[Extracts] KERB crawlers who plague Kings Cross could be barred from the notorious red light district or be forced to take courses to confront their sexual urges.Sarah Walker, of the English Collective of Prostitutes, based in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town, said she would […]
Camden Chronicle: Self-preservation society on ECP history
Caroline RyderYou’d have thought people would have finally got used to prostitution by now, what with it being the oldest profession in the world.But it wasn’t until 1982, when a group of angry “sex workers” occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in Kings Cross, that politicians and the media sat up and listed to […]
The Guardian: Letter – anti-trafficking laws hurt women
Your cover story (Review, last week) repeats misinformation aimed at promoting new anti-trafficking laws. An unbiased look would spot that such laws would remove the requirement for the victim to give evidence against her abuser, thus enabling her immediate deportation. The use of anti-trafficking as a means for deportation was exposed in last year’s Soho […]