Respuesta inicial del Colectivo Inglés de Prostitutas (CIP) a las recomendaciones del Lobby Europeo de Mujeres (LEM) del 4 de diciembre de 2012.1. En un momento de crisis económica en que la pobreza entre las mujeres y los niños está en aumento en toda Europa (ver la propia investigación del LEM[1]) y más mujeres, madres […]
Initial response by the English Collective of Prostitutes to European Women’s Lobby recommendations. 4 December 2012 1. At a time of economic crisis when poverty among women and children is rising throughout Europe (see EWL own research [1) and more women, particularly mothers, are working in the sex industry to survive, the European Women’s Lobby […]
Serkan OzturkA convention held in Sydney earlier this month looking at the gains made in NSW since decriminalisation of sex work was introduced in 1995 saw unanimous agreement by delegates present that the NSW Government is wrong to consider re-introducing a stringent licensing system with strict penalties to govern the sex work industry.Hosted by the […]
NSW sex work laws an example to the worldSEX workers from around the world have called on the NSW government to persevere with the state’s pioneering decriminalisation of sex work.Experts from 11 countries have converged on Sydney this week to examine how the sex profession has benefited since it was decriminalised in NSW in 1995.However, […]
SEX workers from around the world have called on the NSW government to persevere with the state’s pioneering decriminalisation of sex work. Experts from 11 countries have converged on Sydney this week to examine how the sex profession has benefited since it was decriminalised in NSW in 1995. However, more than 50 delegates from Africa, […]
The New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) turns 25 this year.NZPC is holding an event to launch this at their National Office based in Wellington on Tuesday 6 November.Speakers include Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes, and Rachel Wotton from Touching Base in New South Wales.As part of the event, the film ‘Scarlet Road’ […]
by Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service A few years ago, I traveled to Thailand where I met a sex worker for the very first time. A 37-year-old mother of three, she very succinctly told me about her life: “These were my options: I could be apart from my children for 10 hours each day while […]
1. The public’s understandable concern for victims of trafficking including young people is being used to promote a moralistic and dangerous crusade against prostitution. The anti-trafficking campaign allied with law enforcement and the religious right claims that all prostitution is rape/sexual exploitation. It has led to proposals to increase arrests of sex workers on the street, advertising on […]
By M G RadhaakrishanFor the group of sex workers on its usual rounds near the Thampanoor Railway Station in Thiruvananthapuram, the night of February 25 appeared no different at first: an altercation with the local autorickshaw drivers opposed to their hanging around in the stand invariably ending in some of the women being bashed up. And […]