A cross-party group of MPs says the owners of such sites “directly and knowingly” profit from sex-trafficking and wants the Home Office to intervene.The group adds that a small number of sites “dominate the marketplace” and have named two in particular: Vivastreet and Adultwork.But sex-worker-rights campaigners say the proposal would be “a disaster”.Three organisations – the […]
Emma Grinfeld and Leonore Schick discuss young women’s issues. This week VLW are joined by members of the English Collective of Prostitutes who campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution as well as for sex workers’ rights and safety. We’ll be talking about the real effects that the current laws in the UK have on sex […]
From Grunwick to Deliveroo: getting organised, getting unionised: Forty years ago Asian women at Grunwick led a strike for basic human dignity at work and for the right to join to a trade union. Today these battles are still being fought, often by migrant workers in precarious employment conditions. The experiences of those at Byron […]
Who cares about women’s work? Discussing care, Wages for Housework and valuing feminised labour, Ray is joined by Selma James, coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike and author of Sex, Race and Class, and Cari Mitchell, spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes.
Speakers highlight two recent sex worker-led struggles: the historic victory in California of sex workers winning compensation for rape, and the protests against mass raids and closures of sex workers’ flats in the red-light area of Soho, London, England. Hear how trafficking is being used as a justification for a moralistic crusade against sex workers […]
Listen here.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) has criticised calls for the Government to make buying sex a crime.Tory cabinet minister Caroline Spelman claimed the UK should copy the so-called nordic model, where prostitution is legal but buying sex is not.However ECP spokeswoman Cari Mitchell said the changes in Sweden made the profession “more dangerous” […]
PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT MEETING, HOUSE OF COMMONS. Stop the criminalisation of sex work – safety first! 26 March 2014
See video here. As sex workers from across Europe gather at the House of Commons to argue against proposals to criminalise their clients, Channel 4 News asks one woman what effect changing the law would have. The sex workers say proposals drawn up by the all-party parliamentary group on prostitution would not stop prostitution, but would […]