17 December is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (IDEVASW), a day in which we remember and commemorate the sex workers who have been killed across the globe. We also acknowledge and count the ongoing struggle, led by sex workers to win safety and protection from rape and other violence,
What you need to know:Three sex worker’s organisations and a women’s lobby group — Women Against Rape — held demonstrations outside the Ministry of Defence headquarters in London on December 17.Donned in red scarves and masks and carrying banners, they asked for the arraignment of the military officer, who has since confessed to the murder.Sex workers […]
The sex workers groups assembled outside the Ministry of Defence office to call for justice for Wanjiru. In Summary • ECP said sex workers have been speaking about police violence for decades. • The group also protested racism and other discrimination which mean that women of colour, migrants, trans women are the vast majority […]
British sex workers have called for expedited probe into the killing of Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier. Wanjiru, a 21-year-old mother, was brutally murdered as she partied with British soldiers and her body dumped in a septic tank in Nanyuki, Kenya, in 2012. The sex workers staged protests in London on Friday, […]
Sex workers at the Justice for Agnes Wanjiru demonstration in London on December 17, 2021. PHOTO: SWARMDrawn from three sex worker organizations; Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), ECP (English Collective of Prostitutes) and the AAWG (All African Women’s Group, the cocottes camped outside the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence headquarters on Friday in […]
Criminalisation, poverty and the hostile environment are roots of violence against sex workers. It’s time to end them all, say Niki Adams and Laura Connelly Since 2003, those of us involved in the movement for sex workers’ rights have commemorated 17 December as the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. It is a day of mourning, […]
Today (December 17, 2021) sex workers and allies gathered outside the Ministry of Defence in London to protest the murder of Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan sex worker, who was killed by a British Army soldier in March 2012. Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (IDEVASW), a day in which we honour […]
‘We are entitled to the same rights which all human beings get,’ says Agnes Wanjiru’s neighbourMaya OppenheimA Kenyan sex worker allegedly murdered by a British soldier has been denied justice because sex workers are routinely unjustly refused rights, a neighbour of the dead woman has warned.Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan sex worker, is alleged to have been killed by a British Army soldier […]
Photos / video copyright Juno Mac / SWARM
No Bad Women, Just Bad Laws. International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers17 December 2020, 5pm GMT Women from Hull and Mayfair on their similar struggles against poverty, violence and criminalisation. An Untold Story – Voices, a collective of women with experience of street sex work speaking on their determined struggle to […]
Find a transcript of this episode here, or listen to Tea with Mama Cash on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, or Stitcher. Mama Cash funds groups of women, girls, trans and intersex people – and some of them are sex workers’ rights activists. Yet even within feminist circles, the regulation of sex work is a contested topic. So for this International Day to End Violence […]