Part I. Reflecting on the significance of the occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross (1982) in London to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers. Guest: Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and author of Hookers in the House of the Lord and The Power of Women […]
Campaigners are calling for an end to the “Prostitutes Caution”, saying it’s preventing women leaving sex work behind them. The caution stays on record for 100 years and there’s no appeal possible. A new report from the English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds of women they surveyed who’d been given one found it hard […]
Novara Media · Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism w/ Laura Watson Imagine a person arrested for keeping a brothel. Who are they? An abusive pimp? Such people exist, no doubt, but the law isn’t set up just to catch abusers: it also targets sex workers working together to […]
Wales This Week has found that the number of women selling sex in Wales has almost doubled in the last 18 months. In the grip of a cost of living crisis, the programme investigates why more women are turning to sex work to make ends meet, and hears calls for a change in the laws, to […]
ECP’s Niki Adams speaking at the protest called by Women Against Rape and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike on 6 February 2023 outside the sentencing hearing of David Carrick, a former police officer who committed numerous offences of rape and other torture against women. For more info see: The David Carrick Trial – Women Against Rape
“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
Minnie Stephenson News CorrespondentThe cost of living crisis is causing a significant rise in the number of women returning to sex work, according to the English Collective of Prostitutes.And the organisation says women are putting themselves in much more dangerous situations as they struggle to pay their energy bills and feed their families.The numbers asking […]
Cathy Newham, PresenterA ban on strip clubs has been announced by Edinburgh Council, which says the venues disempower women.But today the United Sex Workers union began a legal challenge of the decision.The union says it would force over 100 women out of work and potentially into more dangerous situations.We spoke to Labour MP Nadia Whittome, […]