US PROS urges the UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to seriously examine the connections between criminalization of prostitution and violence against women and girls. Criminalization has a harmful and damaging impact on the lives of sex workers. We urge … Continue reading
Category Archives: International
From our sister group ECP: “Stop punishing sex worker mums by taking kids away, demand activists”
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Call to decriminalise sex work and support women in need rather than labelling them ‘unfit’ because of their work Lauren Crosby Medlicott25 July 2022, 2.06pm openDemocracy Every Wednesday, picketers meet outside the Central Family Court in London to protest against … Continue reading
Bay Area Int’l Day to End Violence against Sex Workers
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December 17, 2017 Center for Sex & Culture 1349 Mission St. {bet. 9th & 10th Sts.} Film show, discussion & potluck, 2-4 pm “Les Prostitutées de Lyon Parlent – The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak ” by Carole Roussopoulos … Continue reading
Listen to sex workers – we can explain what decriminalisation would mean – Article in UK Guardian
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Great victory against criminalizing clients in the UK, from our sisters in the English Collective of Prostitutes. If progress is to be made now an amendment to the modern slavery bill has been defeated, MPs must invite us into the … Continue reading
Prostitutes and the recession: How David Cameron’s cuts are affecting British women
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Prostitutes and the recession: How David Cameron’s cuts are affecting British women By Gabriella Swerling The Independent Notebook Wednesday, 1 May 2013 The sex industry like most others is feeling the effects of the credit crunch. But in a grim … Continue reading
India: The fight for ‘justice’ by a sex workers’ union sparkle a debate
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By M G Radhaakrishan For the group of sex workers on its usual rounds near the Thampanoor Railway Station in Thiruvananthapuram, the night of February 25 appeared no different at … Continue reading
Report of International Prostitutes Collective conference: No Bad Women, No Bad Children, Just Bad Laws
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This path breaking conference aimed to influence the UK government’s review of the prostitution laws, learn from the experience of other countries and gather support for International Prostitutes Collective (IPC) proposals to prevent further violence and criminalisation against sex workers. … Continue reading
Canadian sex workers win decriminalization
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The High Court in Ontario, Canada, yesterday abolished the laws banning street soliciting (communicating for the purposes of prostitution), working together from premises (bawdy house) and living off the avails of prostitution as they make sex workers more vulnerable to … Continue reading
South Africa; Sex work should be decriminalised and regulated – Institute for Security Studies report
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Report says sex work should be decriminalised This is from the Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg by DENISE WILLIAMS | PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – Jul 31 2008 15:19 Sex work should be decriminalised and regulated by the same labour legislation as other sectors … Continue reading
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