Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes has asked for a temporary amnesty with the police to allow workers and their clients to come forwardVice girls fearing they may be targeted by a serial killer are urging the police to launch an amnesty.Given their long-held mistrust of the police the offer hand-in-hand with the […]
Co-ordinated by the English Collective of ProstitutesThe tragic murders of five young women in Ipswich have brought us together as individuals and organisations concerned with women´s and children´s safety in the area and elsewhere. There is an unprecedented outcry of never again from many who have understood that women are made vulnerable by legislation which […]
There’s been criticism from sex workers about the Suffolk police strategy of getting sex workers off the streets of Ipswich. It’s being claimed it’s moving the problem elsewhere rather than tackling the root causes. The murders of five women in Suffolk in 2006 has put the county in the centre of the debate about how […]
Suzanne Gilbert 29 May 2006Conference ProducerCapita ConferencesTel: 02078 085 316Fax: 08701 658 989 Dear Suzanne Gilbert,We have had to withdraw from participating in your conference: “Tackling Prostitution: What works? Reducing the impact on communities and lives”.As an independent sex workers organisation which protects and defends the rights of sex workers, we cannot give credibility to an event which […]
Despite acknowledgement that at least 60 prostitute women have been murdered in the last 10 years, the government is today announcing that it is abandoning its consultation and proposed review of the prostitution laws in favour of increased enforcement. This goes against all the evidence which shows that criminalization and crackdowns make sex workers more […]
On 6 October 2005, over 40 police and immigration officers raided 55 flats in the Baker Street area of central London. 70 sex workers were held and questioned, some for up to five hours. Women working as ‘maids’ for the working girls were forced to sign cautions under threat that otherwise the flat would be […]
Anti-social behaviour orders are increasingly being used against prostitutes as a “quick fix” way of clearing women off the streets, campaigners warn.Probation officers and those who work with prostitutes say the orders have effectively brought back jail sentences for offences such as loitering and soliciting, which have been non-imprisonable for more than 10 years. Breaching […]
15 July 1994STOP THE SERIAL KILLER/S – STOP POLICE SWEEPSAt least six women have been murdered this year in the Midlands and North of England, the last two in July — four have been labeled as prostitutes by the police. The police have responded not with protection of women, but with street sweeps -stepping up […]
Since 1981, when the English Collective of Prostitutes issued the first rights sheet for prostitute women in England and Wales, we have been taking up cases of false arrest and intimidation by police. In 1982, we occupied the Church of the Holy Cross in King’s Cross, London, for 12 days. We were inspired by […]