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A new play called “No Bad Women” tells the true story of a landmark trial that opened up a new avenue to justice for survivors. By Emma Garland In the 1990s, serial rapist Christopher Davies assaulted two separate women at knifepoint when they visited his house in the south of England. The first – a tattooed […]
‘I was in a desperate financial situation, no parents to support me and about to become homeless. As I am disabled and was in full-time education, my opportunities for work were, and remain, limited,’ says womanMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheimAusterity is pushing women into prostitution and the criminalisation of the industry is putting them in danger, according […]
Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law; they want decriminalisation and so does the public.Government research published today provides evidence that the current prostitution laws increase the chance of harm and undermine sex workers’ safety.Laura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes which submitted evidence from its national network of sex workers working […]
The Guilty FeministPresented by Deborah Frances-White and Alison SpittleEpisode 173: Sex Workers’ Rightswith special guests Miranda Kane and Niki Adams (ECP)Recorded 21 October 2019 at Kings Place in London.
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Evidence that women are being driven to sex work because of problems with universal credit must lead to government action, MPs have said.A number of women told the work and pensions committee they turned to sex work because their benefits payments did not cover their basic needs.The committee said the government had previously been “dismissive” of […]
As the government faces calls to axe the five-week wait for Universal Credit payments, one ex-claimant describes her experience.One woman told Sky News she had been forced to sell sex for £5 after Universal Credit struggles.Women are being driven to carry out “survival sex” work because of the five-week wait for Universal Credit payments, MPs […]
BY GEORGIA ASPINALL Women are being forced into survival sex work to afford basic necessities because of issues with universal credit according to new warnings from MPs. The work and pensions committee has lambasted the government for not taking the issue seriously sooner, having previously said that the link between universal credit and survival sex work was […]