ACTION ALERT Join our Twitter storm Thursday 23 July 12-2pmand 5-6pm to launch our pledge to “Decriminalise Sex Work for Safety’s Sake”. On 23 July 2015 If you have 1 minute: Re-tweet us via @ProstitutesColl #pledgedecrim. Tweet us your reason for signing the Pledge. Tweet us a picture of you signing the Pledge. Re-tweet these: I […]
Dear friends, This is a briefing (below) we have prepared against a clause to the Modern Slavery Bill which aims to criminalise sex workers’ clients. Please send your objections (model letter below) to the clause as soon as possible. It will be discussed next Tuesday 4 November in the Report Stage of the Bill. If you […]
From Aisling Gallagher:The bill that could impose the Nordic model on sex workers working in Northern Ireland is going to be voted on sometime in the next 48 hours. LIST OF MLAS here – PLEASE GET TWEETING/EMAILING.Please email and tweet Sinn Fein & Alliance members in particular asking them NOT to back the bill (tweet suggestions below). Also worthwhile tweeting the […]
Dear friends, a motion by MEP Mary Honeyball to criminalise sex workers’ clients is being voted on in Europe tomorrow Wednesday 26 February.Lobby your MEP TODAY – Information from the International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe here and model letter below:”Dear (insert name of MEP here)The 570 NGOs and civil society organisations […]
STOP CRIMINALISATION: SAFETY FIRST – PROTEST AGAINST RAIDS, EVICTIONS AND CRIMINALISATION. Walkers Court, Soho.Wednesday 26 February, 11am-12pm. On 3 March, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution reports and is likely to recommend criminalisation of clients. Criminalising clients will not stop prostitution, nor will it stop the criminalisation of women. But it will make it […]
Violence against sex workers is increasing. Tragically, two sex workers have been murdered in London in the past three months. At the same time, the police have stepped up raids, arrests and closures of premises where women are working in relative safety. This is despite senior police officers admitting that: “[police] operations to tackle the […]
Stop the raids, stop the evictions. Save historic Soho from greedy developers! The first closure order against a sex worker flat was granted in court today. Help us stop the others so Soho is not handed over to developers. An application for a closure order against 27 Peters Street included claims that women are being […]
Don’t Rip the Heart out of Soho!Stop the raids, stop the evictions.Stop the Walkers Court development. Please take action now: Before Tuesday 10 December, object to the Walkers Court development to Planning Committee chair Robert Davis rdavis@westminster.gov.uk. Join us at the planning committee meeting, Tues 10 December 6.30pm at City Hall, 17th floor, 64 […]
Justice for Dora! Justice for Jasmine! Justice for all sex workers who are victims of violence! WHAT: International Day of Protest against the violent abuse and murder of sex workers. WHEN: Friday 19 July 2013 3:00-4:00pm WHERE: Swedish Embassy, 11 Montagu Place, London W1H 2AL, London. CONTACT: London protest, contact: Cari Mitchell, English Collective of Prostitutes, 07811 964171/020 7482 2496, ecp@prostitutescollective.net, Sex Worker Open University, swou@gmail.com. International protests […]
Please write urgently to protest this injustice to the addresses below. This prosecution is not in the public interest and should be dropped. Model letter below.To: Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions privateoffice@cps.gsi.gov.ukCPS, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HSCc: CPS North East Case Progression Team london.magistratesnortheast@cps.gsi.gov.ukThe Cooperage 8 Gainsford Street, Bermondsey, SE1 2NE. (DX161230 […]