Event: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers – 17 December 2019
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17 December IDEVASW
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,
Statement: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 2017
This year on 17 December we remember and commemorate the sex workers who have been killed across the globe in 2017, and the countless others whose names never made the headlines.Women and non-binary people across the world live under the constant threat of violence and, for sex workers, this is heightened by illegality and stigma.Since […]
Press Release: Sex workers outside Parliament to demand safety on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
On 17th December, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (#IDEVASW), thousands of sex workers and sex worker-led organisations around the world will gather to commemorate the sex workers who have lost their lives in the last year. Last year, the list included more than 150 sex workers murdered between 1st January and 1st […]
Statement: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
On 17 December we remember and commemorate the more than 140 sex workers who have been killed in the past year across the globe. Many others have lost their lives who have never hit the headlines. But we also acknowledge and count the ongoing struggle, led by sex workers to win safety and protection from rape […]
West End Extra: Vigil against ‘epidemic of violence’
CAROLINE MORTIMER SEX workers and campaigners held a candlelit procession through the streets of Soho to protest against “the worsening conditions in the borough and across the world”. The vigil was to mark International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers and the first anniversary of the raids on the Soho flats which saw 200 […]
Vice: I Marched Through Soho Last Night In Support of Britain’s Sex Workers
Yesterday was the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and the London demo had last year’s excessive police raids on Soho’s working flats at the front of its mind. By Frankie Mullin Last night, I joined a march through Soho in support of sex workers. It’s an area of London that – despite what […]
Morning Star: Sex workers hold vigil following the murder of two prostitutes
Posted by Joana Ramiro SEX workers held a candle-lit march through London yesterday to remember fellow workers who have been victims of violence. Members of the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) held commemorations in Soho to mark the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. And they were joined by screen […]
Event: International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers
Wednesday 17 December 20147pm (assemble 6.45pm) candlelit march — from Soho Square to St Anne’s Church.7.30pm Soho Trot by Ana Aranha. Documentary featuring powerful interviews and true testimonies from sex workers working independently in Soho flats who fought police raids and evictions, St Anne’s Church 55 Dean St. 8pm Speak Out featuring actors Rupert Everett […]
Zi Teng Statement on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Sex Workers are not humans? It is the 11th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers today. During 2013, the police never stopped raiding the sex workers and the massage workers. For example, we received the complaints from the massage workers almost every week, telling us that the police checked the license 4-5 times a […]