#PledgeDecrim Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/pledgedecrim/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:41:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png #PledgeDecrim Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/pledgedecrim/ 32 32 Centre for Gender Studies backs campaign to decriminalise the sex industry https://prostitutescollective.net/centre-gender-studies-backs-campaign-decriminalise-sex-industry/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:03:29 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=6915 The University of Sussex’s Centre for Gender Studies has formed an alliance with an association of sex workers and signed a pledge supporting the decriminalisation of the sex industry. This move comes amid debates about Amnesty International’s draft policy document supporting sex industry decriminalisation, which has set the organisation at loggerheads with a number of […]

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]]> New Statesman: How #pledgedecrim takes sex worker rights to the mainstream https://prostitutescollective.net/pledgedecrim-takes-sex-worker-rights-mainstream-new-statesman/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:59:13 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4381 Sex worker rights campaigners are hoping that the strategy that is working in the highest echelons of power will also work as well in the housing association meeting hall, or in the shouting grounds of Twitter. BY MARGARET CORVID  Last week, the Safety First Coalition, a project that brings together sex worker rights campaigners, anti-rape groups, and health […]

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]]> Press Release: Twitter storm pledge to decriminalise sex work https://prostitutescollective.net/sex-workers-twitter-storm-pledge-decriminalise-sex-work-safetys-sake/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:36:06 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4364 What: Sex workers launch pledge to decriminalise sex work for safety's sake.When: Thursday 23 July 12-2pm and 5-6pm.Where: Twitter #pledgedecrim Follow @ProstitutesColl  Sign here. Issued by the Safety First Coalition, co-ordinated by the English Collective of Prostitutes. Sex workers and supporters are launching a campaign to get people to pledge their support for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Laura Watson […]

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]]> Action Alert: Twitter storm to decriminalise sex work https://prostitutescollective.net/twitter-storm-23-july-pledge-decriminalise-sex-work-safetys-sake/ Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:57:52 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4357 ACTION ALERT Join our Twitter storm Thursday 23 July 12-2pmand 5-6pm to launch our pledge to “Decriminalise Sex Work for Safety’s Sake”. On 23 July 2015 If you have 1 minute: Re-tweet us via @ProstitutesColl #pledgedecrim. Tweet us your reason for signing the Pledge. Tweet us a picture of you signing the Pledge. Re-tweet these: I […]

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]]> New Statesman: Still deciding who to vote for? Consider sex workers’ rights https://prostitutescollective.net/still-deciding-vote-consider-sex-workers-rights-new-statesman/ Thu, 07 May 2015 14:40:23 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4262 The English Collective of Prostitutes has created a pledge for sex worker rights – find out who supports it. BY MARGARET CORVID If you haven't decided who to vote for yet, consider sex worker rights. This is an election animated by the spirit of a new politics, when SNP, Plaid Cymru and Greens speak, loudly and […]

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