Wales Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/wales/ 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. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +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 Wales Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/wales/ 32 32 2025 – Our Work This Year https://prostitutescollective.net/2025-our-work-this-year/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:59:55 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20117 Hookers, dykes and women of colour celebrate 50 years of making trouble, making historyThe year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the ECP. Along with Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike and Queer Strike, which are also celebrating their 50th anniversary, we held a sold-out event at the Bishopsgate Institute. All three organisations […]

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]]> Video: ITV Cymru Wales – Selling Sex to Survive https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-cymru-wales-selling-sex-to-survive/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:08:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17905 Wales This Week has found that the number of women selling sex in Wales has almost doubled in the last 18 months. In the grip of a cost of living crisis, the programme investigates why more women are turning to sex work to make ends meet, and hears calls for a change in the laws, to […]

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]]> ITV Cymru Wales: Growing number of women turning to sex work amid “colossal” rise in living costs https://prostitutescollective.net/itv-cymru-wales-growing-number-of-women-turning-to-sex-work-amid-colossal-rise-in-living-costs/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:54:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17903 An increasing number of women are turning to sex work "to make ends meet".The number of active accounts registered to women in Wales on the website AdultWork.com has risen from 260 at the beginning of 2023 to 461. The website describes itself as an "online directory for adult service providers".Laura Watson, a spokesperson for the […]

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]]> Leanne Wood podcast – Episode 9: For Prostitutes, Against Prostitution https://prostitutescollective.net/leanne-wood-podcast-episode-9-for-prostitutes-against-prostitution/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:28:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16193 Niki Adams from the English Collective of Prostitutes tells me why the prostitution laws should be abolished, why the Scandinavian model is bad for sex workers, how mainstream feminist politicians are failing sex workers and what we can all do to offer support and be a good ally.Stream Episode 9 - for prostitutes, against prostitution […]

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]]> The National: A Killing In Tiger Bay – Daughter tells of family’s trauma https://prostitutescollective.net/the-national-a-killing-in-tiger-bay-daughter-tells-of-familys-trauma/ Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:46:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=15531 A murder carried out almost a decade before her birth, and which her family should have had no connection to, has long cast a shadow for Cassie Justice Parris. The 24-year-old only found out through anxious curiosity how her father, Tony Paris, had been dragged into what would become Britain’s longest running murder trial, unwilling to wait until she was older to be let in on what appeared to be a secret in her father’s past. “I googled […]

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]]> Independent: Police criticised for warning Swansea sex workers they could be prosecuted in clampdown https://prostitutescollective.net/independent-police-criticised-for-warning-swansea-sex-workers-they-could-be-prosecuted-in-clampdown/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:08:17 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=7654 'It is terrifying that this is the police response to women’s situation. Women are out there because poverty has increased – particularly in that area. People are really struggling,' says campaignerMaya Oppenheim Women's Correspondent @mayaoppenheimPolice have been criticised for warning sex workers in Swansea that they could be prosecuted in a clampdown. Campaigners argued this would put the women in greater danger.Sex […]

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]]> BBC Wales: Toleration zones https://prostitutescollective.net/ecp-quoted-bbc-wales-toleration-zones/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 08:05:56 +0000 http://prostitutescollective.net/?p=4383 Newport prostitutes plan must 'not turn city into Amsterdam' A part of Newport which is being earmarked as a designated area for prostitutes should not become like Amsterdam, an MP has warned. Gwent Police is considering plans to have a non-residential area of Pill for prostitutes. A police spokeswoman said enforcement alone was "not an effective solution". […]

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