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Women at 26 Romilly Street were evicted last night. Demo 11-12 TODAY. See info below. “Don’t put us out on the streets. Save Soho” Soho sex workers and supporters protest against evictions and the destruction of Soho by developers. PROTEST: 11am, Wednesday 9 OctoberOutside Soho Estates, Portland House, 12-13 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DL Women […]
ANOTHER PRECIOUS LIFE LOST A 24-year-old woman was murdered on Monday night in Ilford Lane, Ilford. This tragic killing comes in the wake of Operation Clearlight a major police crackdown on street prostitution in this area which began in September. Over 200 women have received “prostitute cautions” and many have been arrested for loitering and […]
We, the undersigned demand that prostitution – the consenting exchange of sexual services for money – is decriminalised. As LGBTQ sex workers and allies we are asking for support for the decriminalisation of prostitution – consenting sex where payment is involved. “The freedom of two people to have sexual contact with each other has historically […]
Report by Irem Az.Dora Ozer, who was a trans woman sex worker in Kusadasi, Turkey, was killed by one of her clients on July 9th. Two days after her murder, Petite Jasmine was killed by her abusive ex partner who unbelievably had been given custody of their children “because of” Jasmine’s job. To protest violence […]
Jasmine and Dora 4-Ever from Carol Leigh on Vimeo. In 2012 during the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, I met and interviewed Petite Jasmine with Pye Jakobsson from Rose Alliance of Sweden. Petite Jasmine was murdered one year later, a victim of the stigmatisation and legal discrimination that sex workers face. She was […]
We won . . . we won . . . we won . . . we won! Not guilty of breaching an Anti-social Behaviour Order See previous action alert here. Today Ms CH was found not guilty of charges of breaching an Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO). The ASBO bans her for 26 years from loitering […]
In 2013, a sex worker challenged charges of having breached an Anti-social Behaviour Order (ASBO) banning her for 26 years from loitering in the London borough where she lives. With the support of the ECP which mounted a public campaign and helped her prepare for court, she was found not guilty! If she had been […]
Justice for Dora! Justice for Jasmine! Justice for all sex workers who are victims of violence! WHAT: International Day of Protest against the violent abuse and murder of sex workers. WHEN: Friday 19 July 2013 3:00-4:00pm WHERE: Swedish Embassy, 11 Montagu Place, London W1H 2AL, London. CONTACT: London protest, contact: Cari Mitchell, English Collective of Prostitutes, 07811 964171/020 7482 2496, ecp@prostitutescollective.net, Sex Worker Open University, swou@gmail.com. International protests […]