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Sophie Hemery Sex workers are increasingly subject to enforcement by police and local authorities in the form of dispersal orders, fines and prosecution. At a focus group on street sex workers’ health, Angelica is a natural orator. She is funny and passionate, and shares her life’s successes and struggles with hard-won conviction. At almost 60 […]
PROSTITUTION laws should be urgently rewritten so sex workers are no longer criminalised for soliciting, a major new Commons report has argued. Evening Mail readers voted overwhelmingly in favour of it being decriminalisation. Brothel-keeping rules should also be adapted so prostitutes can share premises rather than placing themselves at risk by working alone, the Government […]
The ECP welcomed the Home Affairs Select Committee recommendation in 2016 that the law be changed ” “so that soliciting [a charge used against street-based sex workers] is no longer an offence and so that brothel-keeping provisions allow sex workers to share premises”. Crucially the Committee also calls for a law to delete “previous convictions and cautions […]
The Home Affairs Committee publishes an interim report on prostitution, saying that soliciting by sex workers, and sex workers sharing premises, should be decriminalised.Report: ProstitutionReport: Prostitution (PDF 1.10 MB)Inquiry: ProstitutionHome Affairs CommitteeHome Office should change legislationThe Committee says the Home Office should immediately change existing legislation so that soliciting is no longer an offence and brothel-keeping laws […]
Soliciting by sex workers should no longer be a crime, the Commons Home Affairs Select committee says.The cross-party group of MPs is urging the government to make radical changes to the laws on prostitution in England and Wales.Brothel-keeping rules should also be modified so that prostitutes can share premises rather than risk working alone, the […]
By Frankie MullinAt midnight last night, sex workers waited, fingers crossed, breath held, as the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) report into prostitution went online. There was reason for apprehension: the inquiry’s initial terms of reference seemed geared towards recommending more criminalisation. During the inquiry itself, moral crusaders were given as much air time as […]
Nadia KhomamiHome affairs select committee wants law changed so sex workers are allowed to share premises while urging crackdown on those who exploit sex workersThe criminalisation of sex workers in England and Wales should come to an end, a cross-party committee of influential MPs has recommended.In an interim report published on Friday, the home affairs […]
1 July 2016 The English Collective of Prostitutes welcomes the report from the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) which recommends a change in the law “so that soliciting [a charge used against street-based sex workers] is no longer an offence and so that brothel-keeping provisions allow sex workers to share premises”. Crucially the Committee also […]