Diana Johnson’s bill aims to reduce demand for sex work by making its purchase illegal. Instead, the law could put women in danger and drive them into poverty Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott Last Wednesday, Dame Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull North, tabled a motion in the House of Commons to criminalise the purchase of […]
Sophie K Rosa @sophiekrosaParliament has passed a controversial bill proposing the UK adopts the ‘Nordic model’ for its laws on sex work. The bill, brought by Labour MP Diana Johnson on Wednesday, is opposed by sex workers and groups including Amnesty International, harm-reduction charity Release and Women Against Rape, who argue that the legal model it proposes is driven […]
A NEW law is needed to “bust the business model of sex trafficking” by “shifting the burden of criminality” from victims to men who pay for sex, a Labour MP told the Commons yesterday.Britain is a “high-value and low-risk” destination for sex trafficking because the law fails to discourage demand for prostitution, Kingston upon Hull […]
‘We will be forced back onto the backstreet alleys and made as vulnerable overnight as women were in Victorian days. We won’t be able to feed our kids,’ says sex worker Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim A Labour MP has been fiercely criticised for proposing legislation which would criminalise buying sex as campaigners warn the bill […]
Men who pay for sex fuel ‘brutal sex trafficking trade’, senior MP says as she proposes law to bust the business However, sex workers and trade unionists argue that criminalising clients undermines sex workers’ safety Men who pay for sex are fuelling a “brutal sex trafficking trade”, a senior MP said on Wednesday as she proposed […]
VIC PARSONS Trade unions, sex workers, women’s rights organisations and thousands of individuals have united to oppose a Labour bill that would bring the “Nordic model” sex work law to England and Wales. Due to be put forward today by Labour MP Diana Johnson, the bill on “sexual exploitation” would criminalise paying for sex and target […]
Women are worried about eviction and risking their health by working because they cannot survive any other way – they urgently need Government support By Niki Adams I got a text from Jilly a couple of days ago. “I had a stripping job on Saturday and was forced to do it as broke and I […]
‘This publicity campaign exploits women’s experience of violence and trauma to promote the criminalisation of prostitution which in reality is making it more dangerous and difficult for women to work,’ says campaignerMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim Men interested in paying for sex will be duped into listening to harrowing real life stories about sex trafficking when they ring a fake call […]
In our new normal, staying at least a metre away from other people is mandatory pretty much everywhere you go. But for the UK’s 70,000 sex workers, following these rules could mean going hungry or homeless. Sex workers in the UK have largely been shut out from government schemes to protect those unable to work due […]
The second national lockdown is going to push sex workers “even deeper into crisis”, according to a campaign group.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has called for state support for workers in the coronavirus pandemic.It said people were having to choose between risking their health by working or seeing their family go hungry.Cari – not […]