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 […]
Airbnb host caught on camera threatening to ‘smack’ guest in faceThe man accused two women renting his flat of being ‘prostitutes’ and said no one would believe their complaintsLauren Crosby Medlicott
Tanyel MustafaIt recently hit headlines that certain MPs were using sex workers abroad while on parliamentary trips.Other reports include police officers using robbed money on sex workers, and detectives arresting sex workers, only to have sex with them at the police station.While this activity happens, sex workers in the UK are being dealt an increasingly rough hand.Earlier this year, […]
WATCH HERE By ITV News’ Dani Sinha Often referred to as the world’s oldest profession, sex work is happening all around us – whether it’s online, on the streets or indoors. But spiralling living costs mean many sex workers are having to accept more potentially dangerous clients and work longer hours. It’s seen some women […]
“More people, especially women, will be pushed into sex work; and current sex workers will be facing worse financial hardship.” By Beth Ashley on December 21, 2022 When the cost of living crisis struck the UK in full swing, 28-year-old porn performer Dana, decided it was time to get a “traditional job,” as she puts it. “I have some marketing training so I […]
Exclusive: ‘After the raid, a lot of the women didn’t want to return to the premises because they were so traumatised,’ sex worker says as new information obtained under FOI laws emergesMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent Around seven in ten police raids reported as being linked to modern slavery and sex trafficking are not resulting in any trafficking victims being referred to support services, […]
Exclusive: Campaigner says changing law ‘could be the difference between life and death for women’Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent The government must review prostitution laws to ensure sex workers can work together on the same premises to remain safe, a senior police officer has said.Dan Vajzovic, the National Police Chief Council’s lead for prostitution and sex work, told The Independent he is working alongside government officials to reassess brothel keeping legislation.Politicians […]
In the cost of living crisis, women are not being pushed into prostitution by abusers, traffickers or pimps, but by the wilful neglect of the state. The time to act is now Nadia Whittome, Lydia Caradonna As food banks fail to keep up with demand, and families cannot afford to put money on the […]
“If the majority of sex workers are mothers, that’s a condemnation of the society that we live in,” says Niki Adams of the English Collective of ProstitutesNiki and former Home Office adviser Nimco Ali discuss sex work in the UK#PoliticsLive https://t.co/YaKq4i6aZH pic.twitter.com/w1FYTkVdQ2— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 13, 2022