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The Guardian: Landmark rape prosecution revisited in courtroom drama Pursuing Justice
A new play by Lesley Delmenico, to be presented in London, is based on the transcript of a 1995 trial of a man accused of raping two prostitutes Lisa Longstaff from Women Against Rape, director Lesley Delmenico and Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes. Photograph: Sarah Lee The first-ever private prosecution for rape […]
Camden New Journal: Pursuing Justice sex workers take their rapist to court
DAN CARRIER WHEN two sex workers were raped at knifepoint by the same man and the Crown Prosecution Service did not act, the pair made legal history by using a private prosecution to get their attacker before a judge and jury themselves.Now the transcript of the groundbreaking 1995 legal case has become the basis of a […]
Arrested illegally because friend was carrying condoms
In May 2015, a Romanian woman was arrested for loitering for the purposes of prostitution while walking down a road in North London with a friend. The reason given by police for the arrest was that her friend was carrying condoms. She wanted to contest the charge because she wasn’t working at the time so […]
Politics.co.uk: Sex workers’ rights are not up for debate
Sex work: The feminist criticism of the industry has sparked an aggressive debateBy Pandora Blake and Niki AdamsLast week the New Statesman organised a debate on “buying and selling sex” at Conway Hall, in collaboration with London Thinks. Here, Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes and Pandora Blake of the Sex Worker’s Open […]
Independent: New Zealand ‘the best country to work as a prostitute’
Laws protecting prostitutes came into force in 2003KASHMIRA GANDER New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a prostitute thanks to its robust laws, according an organisation which represents the nation’s sex workers.For almost a decade and a half, sex workers in New Zealand have been protected by the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, […]
New Statesman: Still deciding who to vote for? Consider sex workers’ rights
The English Collective of Prostitutes has created a pledge for sex worker rights – find out who supports it. BY MARGARET CORVID If you haven’t decided who to vote for yet, consider sex worker rights. This is an election animated by the spirit of a new politics, when SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens speak, loudly and […]
Where the parties stand on sex workers safety and decriminalisation
On the day before the election sex workers are announcing the results of their e-campaign to find out where electoral candidates stand on prioritising the safety of sex workers by decriminalising prostitution. Laura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes said: “Our results are in! We got responses from many parts of the UK including […]
Screaming Violets: Sex work is work
In 1975, two immigrant women living in England heard about church occupations and a strike of sex workers in France protesting brutal murders and the refusal of the police to investigate them. Encouraged and inspired, the two women formed the English Collective of Prostitutes to campaign for the abolition of the prostitution laws. Our first […]
Book review: Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden
Book Review: ‘Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden’ by Dr Jay LevyElla Parsons April 2015Internationally there is much discussion of Sweden’s prostitution law, which criminalises the purchase of sex. In 2014, the UK Parliament voted against such a measure when it was tabled as an amendment to the Modern Slavery Bill. It was […]