Videos & Podcasts
Video: ECP speak at the sentencing hearing of ex-Met police officer David Carrick
ECP’s Niki Adams speaking at the protest called by Women Against Rape and Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike outside the sentencing hearing of David Carrick, a police officer who committed numerous offences of rape and other torture against women. 6 February, 2023. For more info see: The David Carrick Trial – Women Against Rape
BBC Politics: Sex work in the cost of living crisis
“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
Channel 4 News: Forced into sex work by cost of living crisis
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 […]
Channel 4 News: Increase in benefits can help protect women from sex work says Labour MP
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, […]
Video: Hookers Against Hardship event – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Recording of our HAH campaign event to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25th November 2022 at Crossroads Women’s Centre, London. Speakers: Iris, English Collective of Prostitutes Elizabeth, National Ugly Mugs Mary Atkinson, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants Hodo, Women Against Rape Vee, SWARM (Sex Workers […]
Podcast: ReThink Freedom – Taking the trafficking out of sex work
Taking the trafficking out of sex work Freedom United host a special panel event discussing the decriminalization of sex work with our expert panel as an alternative to the Nordic Model and how the decriminalization of sex work can help build resilience to trafficking.
Media Storm podcast: Sex Workers: Ignored and under threat
Media Storm presented by Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia.Warning: Some strong language and references to sexOnline or offline, the stigma that comes with being a sex worker is pervasive. But sex work is not just stigmatised – it’s criminalised. Laws that ban certain aspects of sex work force workers into unsafe, unregulated environments, where they […]
Leanne Wood podcast – Episode 9: For Prostitutes, Against Prostitution
Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes tells me why the prostitution laws should be abolished, why the Scandinavian model is bad for sex workers, how mainstream feminist politicians are failing sex workers and what we can all do to offer support and be a good ally.Stream Episode 9 – for prostitutes, against prostitution […]
Vice: Video – What Governments Don’t Want You To Know About Modern Slavery | System Error
“Governments say that they’re tackling modern slavery, but they use that as a guise to raid and deport and terrorize migrant sex workers in the UK . . When sex workers actually go and report violence, including trafficking to the police, nothing is done about it. In some cases sex workers are actually arrested themselves […]