Over half of UK adults believe sex workers should be able to work in safe conditions, free from criminalisation — according to new data shared exclusively with Cosmopolitan UKBy Brit DawsonMina Karenina, Hookers Against HardshipThanks to the rise of internet porn and, more recently, OnlyFans, conversations about sex work are now more mainstream than ever. […]
“The Wages for Housework campaign asked a provocative question. More than 50 years later, it is still relevant” (The Guardian)A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week. Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a […]
Campaigners are urging the council to end the criminalisation of prostitution laws.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has gathered more than 1,300 signatures from local residents demanding that Brighton and Hove City Council does “everything in its power to protect sex workers in the city and use whatever influence it has to push for decriminalisation of […]
PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . PRESS RELEASE . . . Sex workers urge Brighton and Hove City Council to support their demands to end the criminalisation of sex work and provide resources to help people leave sex work if they choose. A petition to Brighton and Hove City Council issued by the English […]
Dear friends,We are excited to announce that we have passed the 1,250 signature mark on our petition demanding that Brighton and Hove City Council decriminalise sex work and prioritise safety! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who supported us! This means that the petition will be presented and debated at the next Full Council meeting on December 19th […]
Campaigners are calling for an end to the “Prostitutes Caution”, saying it’s preventing women leaving sex work behind them. The caution stays on record for 100 years and there’s no appeal possible. A new report from the English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds of women they surveyed who’d been given one found it hard […]
A ‘prostitute’s caution’, unlike other cautions, does not require a person to admit an offence or agree to it Police in England and Wales should be banned from issuing a “draconian” caution that exclusively targets sex workers, both politicians and campaigners have said. A “prostitute’s caution”, unlike other police cautions, does not require a person […]
Sex workers in the UK speak out after Belgium grants people in the industry employment rights in historic first Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia Under a new law in Belgium – the first of its kind in the world – sex workers have been given employment rights. They will be entitled to official employment […]
Novara Media · Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson Imagine a person arrested for keeping a brothel. Who are they? An abusive pimp? Such people exist, no doubt, but the law isn’t set up just to catch abusers: it also targets sex workers working together to […]
This briefing addresses the dangers of conflating trafficking, modern slavery and sexual exploitation with all prostitution or sex work. It also explores the harm caused to both victims and sex workers by further criminalisation. Some in Parliament have already begun labelling all sex work as modern slavery and trafficking. The Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) […]