The ECP’s written and oral evidence focused on the intolerable poverty and increase in prostitution faced by women as a direct result of Conservative austerity cuts, as well as highlighting how destitution and criminalisation makes women and young people more vulnerable to exploitation and violence. In 2019, the CHRC published its report ‘The Limits of Consent’ recommending […]
Poverty and crumbling social care have driven vulnerable people into sex work. You wouldn’t know it from this inquiry When Conservative MP Fiona Bruce chairs an inquiry into sex work, you don’t hold your breath for a triumph of progressiveness. This is a politician who is anti-abortion and has repeatedly voted against equal marriage. And yet […]
By Aaron Walawalkar News and Digital Editor A Tory politician has called a report by his fellow Conservative party members, which calls for sex workers’ clients to be prosecuted, “dangerous” and “flawed”. The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission on Thursday (25 July) released the report calling for prostitution to be decriminalised but for buying sex to be made […]
STRASS – Syndicat du Travail Sexuel (France)c/o Act Up-Paris, 8 rue des Dunes, 75019 PARIScontact@strass-syndicat.orgwww.strass-syndicat.orgWednesday, May the 16th, 2018To the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission,Dear Madam,STRASS is France sex workers’ trade union with more than 500 sex workers members all over France from all backgrounds. We are also in contact with thousands of colleagues through […]