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Independent: Austerity pushing women into sex work and criminalisation endangering them, major report finds
‘I was in a desperate financial situation, no parents to support me and about to become homeless. As I am disabled and was in full-time education, my opportunities for work were, and remain, limited,’ says womanMaya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheimAusterity is pushing women into prostitution and the criminalisation of the industry is putting them in danger, according […]
Press Release: Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law
Government research proves sex workers feel unsafe under the current law; they want decriminalisation and so does the public.Government research published today provides evidence that the current prostitution laws increase the chance of harm and undermine sex workers’ safety.Laura Watson from the English Collective of Prostitutes which submitted evidence from its national network of sex workers working […]
Action Alert: Please fill out Parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee survey. Deadline 22 October.
The Women and Equalities Committee has launched an inquiry into prostitution. The survey can be filled out online here.The answers to the questions must be in a word document and must be completed by the 22nd October. Please send a copy of your answers to the ECP at ecp@prostitutescollective.netNote that the Committee is not accepting […]
The Guardian: How can the Tories’ moralising report on prostitution completely ignore austerity?
Poverty and crumbling social care have driven vulnerable people into sex work. You wouldn’t know it from this inquiry@frankiemullinWhen 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 the […]
RightsInfo: Conservative Commission’s Sex Work Proposals Are ‘Dangerous’ – Tory Politician
By Aaron WalawalkarNews 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 a criminal offence.This approach, […]
Action Alert: Support our submission to the Labour Party Policy Forum
Dear Friends,The Labour Party is inviting people to submit proposals to the National Policy Forum which they say will shape policy.We have submitted a proposal for the decriminalisation of sex work to be included in the Labour Party manifesto.We also demand the reversal of austerity cuts which have increased destitution and consequently prostitution.If you are […]
Morning Star: Sex workers across the world are demanding decriminalisation
In 1975 sex workers in France and Switzerland surprised everyone by going on strike against repression — just like “real workers.”The strikes started with the occupation of a church in Lyon and a banner saying: “Our children don’t want their mothers in prison.”They complained bitterly about police arresting and fining them on the spot, and […]
An open letter to MPs; PLEASE start listening to sex workers
When I went along for my first meeting with an MP (Yvette Cooper) in 2015 I was so nervous. I had never met an MP before and I knew it was going to be difficult. I have always had little confidence in my oral skills (not in that way you pervert). You see my education […]