Action alerts
Action Alert: Online consultation – Brighton and Hove City Council Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy 2023- 2026
Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) has issued an online consultation on its Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2023- 2026.The deadline for responses is 1 Jan 2024.It asks you to comment on four priorities and then gives you an opportunity to “suggest any other priorities or anything else you feel we should consider […]
Action Alert: Tenants’ rights – NOT “sex for rent” laws!
The government is considering creating a new law to explicitly outlaw so-called “sex for rent” and has issued a “call for evidence”. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2023. Please click here to fill in the online questionnaire —- The ECP opposes legislation to outlaw “sex for rent” because: If a landlord harasses, threatens […]
Action Alert: Oppose increased criminalisation of sex workers in Newham
UPDATE 28 April – VICTORY!! Proposal for Newham’s Public Space Protection Order has been scrapped! We told the council that it would put sex workers at more risk of violence, criminalise women for trying to make a living, & be a dangerous expansion of police powers and they listened! Read more here. —————– Newham Council […]
Action Alert: Online Safety Bill Part 2
Thank you for writing to your MPs to call for the removal of Clause 16 (Schedule 7 – Priority Offences) of the Online Safety Bill. This clause is a dangerous attempt to criminalise sex workers’ online advertising. Our full briefing is here.Hundreds of letters have been sent, reaching 311 MPs – thank you to those […]
Action Alert: Please tell us how criminalising online adverts would affect you
Sex workers: Please tell us how the attempt to criminalise adverts in the Online Safety Bill would affect you. We’re collating responses! All will be kept anonymous. Drop us a DM on social media, or email direct ecp@prostitutescollective.net with the subject line ONLINE SAFETY BILL STATEMENT If you haven’t done so already, please use our […]
Action Alert: Brighton VAWG survey – deadline 20 Feb
Brighton & Hove City Council is doing a survey to inform the city’s forthcoming Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy. The previous policy was very problematic. It labelled prostitution as a form of violence and exploitation, promoted the closure of premises where sex workers are working together, as well as the criminalisation of clients. See background info here with […]
Action Alert: Please respond to survey re Violence Against Women and Girls
Dear friends & supporters, The government has reopened its Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) consultation. Please submit your views and experiences here. Deadline 26 March. In our previous Action Alert we outlined the dangers of prostitution and pornography being listed as a form of violence against women on an equal par with rape, domestic […]
Action Alert: Please respond to the Home Office consultation on Violence Against Women and Girls
Dear friends, The Home Office is doing a consultation on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Thank you to everyone who responded to the survey we did with National Ugly Mugs and Umbrella Lane to gather sex workers’ experience of violence to feed into the Home Office consultation. Our survey has now closed BUT… if […]