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RightsInfo: ‘I Do Sex Work To Feed My Son. Why Should I Be Punished?’

English Collective of Prostitutes — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:12:37 +0000

“Hello, my name is Maria and I am from the English Collective of Prostitutes”. That certainly stops police in their tracks. It’s a line I use a lot nowadays. I started working in the streets in Birmingham about a year ago. At first the police left us alone.I lived in a house with three other women. At […]

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RightsInfo: ‘I’m Not Ashamed Of Doing Sex Work For A Living’

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:19:58 +0000

I’m two hours into my nine hour shift and it’s a quiet day. We are all feeling anxious because yesterday was quiet too, like every other day this month. I feel a mounting sense of doom at how I am going to cover my bills. I tell Mary, our receptionist, I’m writing an article about my […]

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Video: RightsInfo – What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Job Like This

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:33:52 +0000

RightsInfo has been funded to make an animation and an explainer film and commission a range of content to explore the research, work and campaign of the English Collective of Prostitutes in their research ‘What’s A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Job Like This’. This collection of content will be released over […]

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Red Pepper: “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a job like this?”

English Collective of Prostitutes — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:22:21 +0000

A new study compares working conditions in sex work with other jobs disproportionately done by women. By Niki Adams and Tamsin Wressel Sex work is often characterised as inherently exploitative, degrading and dangerous. But is that true? The English Collective of Prostitutes set out to investigate by comparing pay and conditions between sex work and other jobs disproportionately […]

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Camden New Journal: Letter – how can the Women’s Equality Party campaign to close strip clubs?

English Collective of Prostitutes — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:42:42 +0000

21 February, 2019HOW can the Women’s Equality Party (WEP) justify campaigning to close strip clubs without saying how women, deprived of this source of income, should support themselves and their families? (Campaigners fight on against lap-dancing clubs but The Griffin secures new licence, February 15).The WEP says about stripping that: “Degradation of women is the business […]

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WestEnd Extra: ‘Law change could save sex workers from exploitation’

English Collective of Prostitutes — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:01:00 +0000

English Collective of Prostitutes report features women in 'red-light area of Soho' who were subject to police raidsBy Tom FootCAMPAIGNERS have warned it is “dangerous and irresponsible” to criminalise sex workers at a time when exploitation, unequal and poverty pay are forcing women away from lawful work.The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) this week published […]

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Independent: Public sector employees increasingly turning to sex work due to austerity

English Collective of Prostitutes — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:14:54 +0000

Exclusive: 'I’m more tired at home but we can get the food we want and decent shoes for the kids,' says teacher who does sex workMaya Oppenheim Women's Correspondent @mayaoppenheimIncreasing numbers of public sector workers are being forced to turn to sex workdue to austerity measures and welfare cuts, campaigners have warned.A leading campaigning group, which supports the decriminalisation of prostitution, says more […]

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Event: Launch of community research on sex work – Tues 5 Feb

English Collective of Prostitutes — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:25:45 +0000

Launch of new research:“What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Job like This – a comparison between sex work and other jobs commonly done by women.”by the English Collective of Prostitutes.Hosted by Dawn Butler MPTuesday 5 February 2019, 6-8pmCommittee Room 5, Houses of ParliamentAll welcome.Speakers:Niki Adams (ECP) & Sophia Hill (community worker) – on the method and findings […]

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