Thailand Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/thailand/ 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. Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:31:38 +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 Thailand Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/thailand/ 32 32 Video: ECP and Empower Thailand – The Global Women’s Strike Experience https://prostitutescollective.net/video-ecp-and-empower-thailand-the-global-womens-strike-experience/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:28:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19519 In case you missed this recent in-person event, check out video recording below of ‘The Global Women’s Strike Experience’ featuring Charlotte Lee from the English Collective of Prostitutes, Liz Hilton, from Empower, the sex workers' collective in Thailand, and other fantastic speakers.Panelists who have been with the Wages For Housework Campaign for years, while others […]

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]]> Shado-Mag: “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” https://prostitutescollective.net/shado-mag-theres-really-no-such-thing-as-the-voiceless-there-are-only-the-deliberately-silenced-or-the-preferably-unheard/ Sun, 05 Jul 2020 18:39:13 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11866 It was Tuesday 2nd June, ironically, International Sex Workers’ Day. But there were no sex workers there. For nearly three months, the streets of Patpong, Bangkok’s oldest red-light district, were silent and deserted. Two men sporting Covid-masks sit distanced at a streetside board game as a single hunched figure walks past briskly, clutching an umbrella. […]

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]]> Freedom United: Taking the trafficking out of sex work https://prostitutescollective.net/freedom-united-taking-the-trafficking-out-of-sex-work/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:30:31 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=11694 Sex trafficking has long been separated from the broader crime of human trafficking. But some are beginning to question whether this separation is useful—or even whether it’s actively harmful. Sex workers’ rights advocates argue that the division makes it easier for people to conflate all sex work with trafficking, inspiring misled campaigns to eliminate sex […]

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]]> CEDAW General Recommendation on Trafficking of Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration (TWGCGM) (2019-2020) https://prostitutescollective.net/cedaw-general-recommendation-on-trafficking-of-women-and-girls-in-the-context-of-global-migration-twgcgm-2019-2020/ Wed, 20 May 2020 10:25:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16377 In 2019, CEDAW (Committee on The Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)  called for contributions to its draft general recommendations on TWGCGM. The ECP’s written submission outlined the context of trafficking and sex work in the UK, including the impact of Brexit, the Government’s policy of austerity cuts and a hostile environment for migrants which forces […]

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]]> Oakland North: International support groups discuss sex workers’ rights in Oakland https://prostitutescollective.net/oakland-north-international-support-groups-discuss-sex-workers-rights-in-oakland/ Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:38:09 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7334 By Saemmool Lee Thanta Laovilwanyakul(middle) talks about her experience as a sex worker at the "Public Meeting with Empower." Empower Foundation set a table that displayed T-shirts and books that represent their their idea at the public meeting On Monday evening, Thanta Laovilwanyakul, a sex worker from Thailand, sat in front of a stage at Omni […]

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]]> The Guardian: Letter (unpublished) – response to allegations against Oxfam and other NGOs in Haiti https://prostitutescollective.net/letter-sex-worker-groups-respond-to-allegations-against-oxfam-and-other-ngos-in-haiti/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:12:34 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7230 (The Guardian, unpublished).Dear Madam/Sir,Like our sisters in Haiti ('Aid staff would pay more': sex workers in Haiti speak out), sex workers who have survived disasters and face the calamity of criminalisation every day, must start with our need to support ourselves and our families. Women from Empower, a sex workers collective in Thailand, were in […]

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]]> Statement: Sex workers join international women’s strike https://prostitutescollective.net/sex-workers-join-international-womens-strike-8-march/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:26:19 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=5169 International Women’s Strike, 8 March 2017Declaration from the Global Sex Worker MovementOn March 8, in the spirit of solidarity as part of the International Women’s Strike, sex workers will strike against poverty, criminalization and stigma, whether by refusing to go to work, charging double rates or by any other action possible.We work selling sex in […]

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]]> Letter from Empower in Thailand to the UK Home Secretary protesting raids done in the name of anti-trafficking. https://prostitutescollective.net/10910/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:55:55 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=10910 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. Empower is predominately led and managed by sex workers. More than 50,000 sex workers have been part of Empower since our founding in 1985. Empower has been recognized nationally, regionally […]

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]]> Rewire: Why sex workers must be part of the global human rights agenda https://prostitutescollective.net/ruth-messinger-american-jewish-world-service-why-sex-workers-must-be-part-of-the-global-human-rights-agenda/ Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:24:20 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=2503 by Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service A few years ago, I traveled to Thailand where I met a sex worker for the very first time. A 37-year-old mother of three, she very succinctly told me about her life: “These were my options: I could be apart from my children for 10 hours each day while […]

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