Demands for legislative changes to ‘make all women safe’ By Tom Foot WOMEN sex workers shut down Leicester Square in a protest calling for full decriminalisation. The strike on Friday night was part of the International Women’s Day protests and backed by the feminist movement and women’s groups across the country. Student sex workers also […]
by Sophie Hemery Carried from the Bank of England to London’s Piccadilly Circus by drizzle, pop music and smoke grenades, 2019’s Women’s Strike march culminated in a performance by strippers demanding the full decriminalisation of sex work. Thousands of people danced with them, marking the end of an International Women’s Day (IWD) event that had sex workers at […]
November 2016. Dear Editor, We write to support the concerns raised by SCOT-PEP that police “SHAW (Support, Health and Wellbeing) visits” to sex workers’ homes or places of work may be used to gather intelligence to bring prosecutions for criminal offences. We share SCOT-PEP’s concern because that is exactly what happened here. In 2013 250 […]
Last week, six massage parlours were stormed by police looking for “victims” so they could “take them to safety”. Often, this meant arresting women and putting them in detention centres. Frankie Mullin Oct 27 2016, 12:05am Two of the affected shops and the closure notice handed out during Operation Lanhydrock On Thursday the 20th […]
No bad women, just bad laws Women from the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Sex Workers Open University protest police attitudes to migrants sex workers. Sex workers don’t need a hero, they say, but to be treated like humans. Prostitution is a tricky subject. Most of us don’t talk about it, and if […]
Letter from the sex worker collective, Empower in Thailand to the UK Home Secretary protesting about the harm done to sex workers by raids done in the name of anti-trafficking. Dear Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, Empower Foundation, Thailand. Empower is a Thai organization promoting rights and opportunities for sex workers in Thailand for over 30 years. […]
ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT . . . ACTION ALERT PROTESTS GROW OVER RAIDS & LANDGRABS IN CHINATOWN & SOHO What: Masked protest called by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) with Sex Workers Open University (SWOU) and Sex Workers’ Opera (SWO) When: Monday 24 October, 12-1pm […]
privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Dear Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, I am writing to protest the raids and arrests of sex workers in Chinatown and Soho on the night of Thursday 20th October. The English Collective of Prostitutes has reported that 12 people were taken by immigration and 6 people were charged with controlling prostitution, an offence which penalises anyone […]
Press release . . . press release . . . Press release . . . press release . . . Press releas PROTESTS GROW OVER RAIDS & LANDGRABS IN CHINATOWN & SOHO What: Protest organised by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) with Sex Workers Open University and Sex Workers’ Opera When: Monday 24 October, […]
