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Event: End Women’s Poverty – A Guaranteed Care Income for All Caregivers of People & Planet, 9-11 June
Dear friends, Please register for this international and community gathering! ECP’s Niki Adams will be speaking at the session on Saturday 10 June 1:30-4:30pm (EDT) ‘End the Criminalization of Poverty and Protest’ All events are on Zoom as well as in personFor latest updates and speakers see the Global Women’s Strike website.
Action Alert: Tenants’ rights – NOT “sex for rent” laws!
The government is considering creating a new law to explicitly outlaw so-called “sex for rent” and has issued a “call for evidence”. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2023. Please click here to fill in the online questionnaire —- The ECP opposes legislation to outlaw “sex for rent” because: If a landlord harasses, threatens […]
MyLondon: Newham council scrap plans to fine punters who pay for sex over safety fears
The original plans faced backlash from campaignersAn East London council has scrapped plans to fine punters who want to buy sexual services after it faced backlash from campaigners who warned it would “put sex workers in danger”.Newham Council announced last Wednesday (April 27) that it would not be progressing with its Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) […]
Netpol call for solidarity: defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restricting the Rebellion” in 2019The European Convention on Human Rights, in Article 14, says the exercise of rights including freedom of […]
AFP: UK sex workers take more risks due to cost-of-living crunch
Emeline BURCKEL Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is pushing more of its sex workers into taking potentially dangerous risks in order to make ends meet.Rocketing UK inflation — which remains above 10 percent — has forced even more vulnerable Britons into such work to pay spiralling bills, advocates for the sector say.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), which […]
Cosmopolitan: The Holbeck experiment – the city that tried to make sex work safer
As more people turn to sex work amid a cost-of-living crisis, what can we do to help – and protect – them? Jennifer Savin heads to the place that thought it had a solutionBY JENNIFER SAVIN It could be any neighbourhood, anywhere. Kids whizz past blocks of flats and new-builds on scooters. Teenagers vape in the underpass […]
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