Event: Decriminalise prostitution for safety’s sake!

Monday 19 December, 6pm

KEY SPEAKER: TIM BARNETT
New Zealand MP who introduced decriminalisation

He is in London only for one day. Don’t miss him!

Tent City University, Occupy London Stock Exchange, St Paul’s, EC4M 8AD

Tim Barnett sponsored the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act which decriminalised prostitution in New Zealand, making it the first country to do so. This is the model law based on the demands of sex workers for health and safety. Find out how it was won and its impact so far — a five year review found sex workers are safer and have more rights. This talk couldn’t be better timed as even the Association of Chief Police Officers is suggesting New Zealand-style decriminalisation. Tim Barnett now lives in South Africa and is working with sex workers, community organisations and politicians for similar law change there.

Other speakers

Thierry Schaffauser, founder of STRASS, the French sex workers’ union, will speak on widespread opposition to France’s attempts to criminalise clients.

The English Collective of Prostitutes on the impact of the cuts, welfare reform and increased criminalisation, especially on women and children. Since the 2009 Policing and Crime Act rape, assaults, arrests, prosecutions, and police theft, racism and illegality are up; criminal records are trapping more women and young people in prostitution.

Support Sheila Farmer, up in court 3 Jan 2012 on charges of brothel-keeping for working collectively with friends.

All power to the 99%. We with others in the Global Occupy movement demand that the world’s wealth and resources be taken back from the filthy rich 1% and returned to those of us who have least. Outlaw poverty, not prostitution.

English Collective of Prostitutes www.prostitutescollective.net

020 7482 2496 / 07811 964 171  ecp@prostitutescollective.net