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Independent: BT retreats over prostitutes’ lines
BRITISH TELECOM has been told to stop cutting off the telephone lines of prostitutes who use public telephone boxes to advertise their services.Since July, British Telecom has been trying to stop prostitutes putting cards and stickers in phone boxes by blocking incoming calls on the numbers advertised.Oftel, the telephone services watchdog, yesterday confirmed that it […]
Press Release: Prostitute Women’s Phones Reconnected – BT was breaking the law
In response to complaints by a number of women in the English Collective of Prostitutes’ network, represented by solicitors Leigh, Day & Co, OFTEL has ruled that British Telecom’s action of cutting off the phones of women who advertise sexual services in phone boxes contravenes their obligation to “provide universal service” without “discrimination against particular […]
Statement: Opposing and preventing the scapegoating of sex workers for HIV and AIDS
Prostitute women do not “spread HIV or AIDS”. We challenge all assumptions put out by drug companies and/or governments which stand to profit from them financially or politically. We oppose compulsory HIV testing. We support all mothers’ right to breastfeed their babies regardless of HIV status, to have access to independent and reliable information, and […]
Open Letter: To the Home Secretary – end the use of possession of condoms as evidence
Kenneth Baker MPHome SecretaryHouse of CommonsLondon SW1A OAA28 November 1991 Dear Home Secretary, re: prostitute women and condoms We are writing to ask for an end to the use of possession of condoms as evidence to arrest and convict prostitute women on charges of loitering and soliciting. As you know, government policy on HIV and […]
Statement: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution (1990)
Click here to read the document: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution For original 1975 version please see here: For Prostitutes Against Prostitution (1975)
Statement: Anti-porn is the theory, repression is the practice
Introduction In October 1986, Julienne Dickey of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) wrote to the King’s Cross Women’s Centre, where the English Collective of Prostitutes is based, asking if the Centre would write an article for the book Feminism and Censorship – The Current Debate “regarding opposition to censorship of pornography, related to the […]
Los Angeles Times: Police raked for handling of prostitute murder cases
By Bettina Boxall Several community activists Tuesday complained to the Police Commission that the Los Angeles Police Department is mishandling and covering up an investigation o[ what appear to be serial killings of prostitutes In the South-Central area. Condemning police silence on the slayings of at least nine women in the last three years, spokesmen […]