Sex Workers: Access to Justice webinar – 19 Nov
For a list of speakers and resources that were asked for during the webinar please see here.
International
POLITICO: Out in the cold – Sex workers brace for second coronavirus lockdown
Sex workers in Europe, already in a uniquely vulnerable position, battle to access health services.BY ASHLEIGH FURLONGIt’s going to be a bleak winter for Europe. But for sex workers, a group that feels it’s been forgotten during the pandemic, the return of lockdowns doesn’t just mean being out of work, it could also mean being once […]
Interview: Natalia, a migrant trans sex worker
This extraordinary interview with Natalia, a trans woman from Brazil in the ECP network, starts with her life growing up in a working-class community of “strength and kindness” but where the police wage war against them. Ostracised from her family when she comes out as trans, she finds care and a community with other trans […]
The World: Sex workers in Europe struggle to survive as clubs slowly reopen
As sex clubs reopen across Europe, sex workers worry about their earnings and also whether they can stay safe. Niki Adams, a spokesperson with English Collective of Prostitutes, says the pandemic and lack of state support shows how far the industry still has to go to gain legal recognition. Lotte Alberg, who owns two sex […]
Shado-Mag: “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
It was Tuesday 2nd June, ironically, International Sex Workers’ Day. But there were no sex workers there. For nearly three months, the streets of Patpong, Bangkok’s oldest red-light district, were silent and deserted. Two men sporting Covid-masks sit distanced at a streetside board game as a single hunched figure walks past briskly, clutching an umbrella. […]
Support the campaign for a Care Income Now!
Dear friends,Please join us in supporting the campaign for a #CareIncomeNow. During the COVID-19 crisis sex workers in the UK have been left without an income and deprived of the support many other waged workers are entitled to. When we have raised our demands for emergency cash help and worker status, we’ve been disparaged and dismissed. […]
Statement: Victory in Seattle!
Seattle City Council votes to repeal drug and prostitution loitering laws which have a “deep and harmful racist history” and are shown to have “a disproportionate impact on women of color, both cis- and transgender”.Today Seattle City Council repealed drug and prostitution loitering laws that endangered SW safety, unjustly targeted non-violent peoples, and disproportionately impacted […]
Bulletin: Sex workers and COVID-19 – Media coverage sent in by our network
Summary Sex workers, many of whom are mothers, have been left without an income by the coronavirus crisis and lockdown and are facing destitution, debt and homelessness. But because sex work is criminalised, sex workers are being deprived of the support, payments and protections available to others. Migrant sex workers subject to No Recourse to […]
BBC News: Coronavirus – Sex workers fear for their future
With social distancing rules in place and strip clubs and brothels closed, sex workers around the world have seen their incomes disappear almost overnight as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Fearing for their livelihoods, as well as their health, some are offering services online to keep their business going, while others are turning to […]
Freedom United: Taking the trafficking out of sex work
Sex trafficking has long been separated from the broader crime of human trafficking. But some are beginning to question whether this separation is useful—or even whether it’s actively harmful. Sex workers’ rights advocates argue that the division makes it easier for people to conflate all sex work with trafficking, inspiring misled campaigns to eliminate sex […]