‘I have not slept well. I have had to borrow money from a client – how else am I going to pay my bills?’ sex worker saysMaya Oppenheim Women’s CorrespondentSex workers are at risk of homelessness and destitution because their bank accounts are being frozen due to their work, the Sex Worker’s Union has warned.Campaigners said the freezing of bank […]
Dear friends, Please register for this international and community gathering! ECP’s Niki Adams will be speaking at the session on Saturday 10 June 1:30-4:30pm (EDT) ‘End the Criminalization of Poverty and Protest’ All events are on Zoom as well as in personFor latest updates and speakers see the Global Women’s Strike website.
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 […]
The original plans faced backlash from campaignersAn East London council has scrapped plans to fine punters who want to buy sexual services after it faced backlash from campaigners who warned it would “put sex workers in danger”.Newham Council announced last Wednesday (April 27) that it would not be progressing with its Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) […]
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restricting the Rebellion” in 2019The European Convention on Human Rights, in Article 14, says the exercise of rights including freedom of […]
Emeline BURCKEL Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is pushing more of its sex workers into taking potentially dangerous risks in order to make ends meet.Rocketing UK inflation — which remains above 10 percent — has forced even more vulnerable Britons into such work to pay spiralling bills, advocates for the sector say.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), which […]
As more people turn to sex work amid a cost-of-living crisis, what can we do to help – and protect – them? Jennifer Savin heads to the place that thought it had a solutionBY JENNIFER SAVIN It could be any neighbourhood, anywhere. Kids whizz past blocks of flats and new-builds on scooters. Teenagers vape in the underpass […]
ECP’s Niki Adams speaking at the protest called by Women Against Rape and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike outside the sentencing hearing of David Carrick, a police officer who committed numerous offences of rape and other torture against women. 6 February, 2023. For more info see: The David Carrick Trial – Women Against Rape
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott, JournalistAfter a long working day at a London-based office job in the charity sector, there’s nothing Alex* would love more than to go out with friends or sit and binge on boxsets. Instead, Alex opens their ‘sex work’ phone en route to the gym and quickly replies to messages from clients who they’ll be seeing […]