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Action Alert: Urgent – Please fill out government survey – deadline 16 July
Thousands of people responded to a call to action this week and lobbied their MP to speak against proposals to ban sex workers advertising online. Thanks to everyone who wrote. We write now to ask for your help with another urgent action. The government has commissioned research on prostitution and it would be great if […]
Buzzfeed: MPs Want To Crack Down On Men Who Buy Sex, But These Sex Workers Say They’re Not Being Listened To
The MPs said they understood the sex workers’ views, but that their priority is to protect the most vulnerable. A group of MPs are pushing the government to do more to crack down on exploitation in sex work, and have said that online adverts for sex work should be banned. However, sex workers have said […]
Video: BBC News – Prostitution websites ban debated by MPs
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 […]
Press Release: Sex workers and human rights activists protest outside Parliament against a Trump-inspired law that would endanger sex workers and empower exploiters
Sex workers today join with other feminists and human rights activists to voice their opposition to a Trump-inspired ‘anti-trafficking’ law – the US version is known as SESTA/FOSTA (1) – ahead of a debate on mirroring them in the UK, which will be held in the House of Commons on Wednesday (2). The proposed legislation […]
Briefing: Oppose a ban on sex workers advertising online
Stop attacking sex workers. Listen to what sex workers say would make our work safer & support us in our efforts to organise against exploitation and violence.On Wednesday 4 July, MPs are due to debate a proposal from the discredited All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution (APPGP) to close down online sites where sex workers […]
STRASS (France) – Conservative Party Human Rights Commission Inquiry into the Reform of Prostitution Law
STRASS – Syndicat du Travail Sexuel (France)c/o Act Up-Paris, 8 rue des Dunes, 75019 PARIScontact@strass-syndicat.orgwww.strass-syndicat.orgWednesday, May the 16th, 2018To the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission,Dear Madam,STRASS is France sex workers’ trade union with more than 500 sex workers members all over France from all backgrounds. We are also in contact with thousands of colleagues through […]
Victory, local community comes to the defence of sex worker
A sex worker received a letter from someone claiming to be a local mother. The letter outed her as a sex worker, threatened to inform her family about her job, accused her (wrongly) of running a brothel and threatened to report her to the police, included transphobic hate speech against her partner and threatened to drive […]