Statements Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/statements/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:21:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Statements Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/category/statements/ 32 32 Statement: The Impact of Operation Pisces and the police operation, Clear, Hold, Build, on Women’s Health and Safety in Enfield https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-the-impact-of-operation-pisces-and-the-police-operation-clear-hold-build-on-womens-health-and-safety-in-enfield/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:21:06 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20153 Since October 2024, the Metropolitan Police Service has been running what it calls “Operation Pisces” in Enfield, alongside a Clear, Hold, Build policing approach. While presented as a response to serious crime and antisocial behaviour, women in the long-established red light area tell a very different story.We are basing what we say here directly on […]

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]]> Statement: Victory! Woman in ECP network wins against brothel-keeping charges https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-victory-woman-in-ecp-network-wins-against-brothel-keeping-charges/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:10:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19374 A woman in the ECP network just won against charges of brothel-keeping. Ms J is a mother and sex worker in Scotland.  She worked hard to establish a discreet dungeon space which acted as a safe and secure working environment for sex workers. Her property was aggressively raided by twenty police officers with a battering […]

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]]> Update on the campaign that defeated a banning order in Newham https://prostitutescollective.net/update-on-the-campaign-that-defeated-a-banning-order-in-newham/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:18:48 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17791 In December 2022 Newham Council issued a consultation on its proposal to bring in a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in the Romford Road.The justification for the PSPO was that sex workers were:“. . . offering sexual services to passersby, engaging in sexual activities in public spaces” and that clients were kerb-crawling and that this […]

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]]> Netpol call for solidarity: defend the rights of disabled campaigners https://prostitutescollective.net/netpol-call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:12:54 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17675 In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restricting the Rebellion” in 2019The European Convention on Human Rights, in Article 14, says the exercise of rights including freedom of […]

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]]> Statement: ECP on the History of Prostitution Expunged (HOPE) Campaign Launch 28 September 2021 https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-ecp-on-the-history-of-prostitution-expunged-hope-campaign/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:59:14 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=15680 We support the application to the European Court of Human Rights (EHRC) to decriminalise loitering and soliciting and expunge criminal records. It is much needed and we hope it is successful.However, the campaign which initiated this legal action specifically states that it does not support the decriminalisation of sex work. This is divisive and flies […]

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]]> Statement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun with love and gratitude https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-remembering-maureen-colquhoun/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 01:09:45 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=15113 The post Statement: Remembering Maureen Colquhoun with love and gratitude appeared first on English Collective of Prostitutes.

]]> Statement: Remembering 13 women, victims of terrorism, on the death of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-remembering-13-women-victims-of-terrorism-on-the-death-of-peter-sutcliffe-the-yorkshire-ripper/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:26:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=14759 We heard the news of the Yorkshire Ripper dying and our first thoughts were with the families, with the survivors. Probably, they must be feeling relief that they don’t have to face any chance of Sutcliffe getting out of prison, as there was some talk of that not long ago.The ECP was very involved at […]

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]]> Statement: Sex workers respond to feminist MP proposal to further criminalise prostitution https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-sex-workers-respond-to-feminist-mp-proposal-to-further-criminalise-prostitution/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:00:38 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=13887 At the time of a pandemic when poverty, particularly among women and children has increased so massively, why is Diana Johnson and other women MPs focusing on proposals that will make women poorer. They urge the government to criminalise sex workers’ clients and crack down on online advertising sites without any consideration to the ways […]

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]]> Statement: Victory in Seattle! https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-victory-in-seattle/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:55:38 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11727 Seattle City Council votes to repeal drug and prostitution loitering laws which have a “deep and harmful racist history” and are shown to have “a disproportionate impact on women of color, both cis- and transgender”.Today Seattle City Council repealed drug and prostitution loitering laws that endangered SW safety, unjustly targeted non-violent peoples, and disproportionately impacted […]

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]]> Statement: Coronavirus and sex workers’ demands https://prostitutescollective.net/statement-coronavirus-and-sex-workers-demands/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:20:59 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11103 The coronavirus has thrown millions of people into crisis. For sex workers, forced by criminalisation, stigma and discrimination to live in the shadows, that crisis is more hidden. Much sex work involves personal contact – exactly what we are being warned against if the virus is to be contained. The virus comes on top of […]

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