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ECONOMIC REALITY OF PROSTITUTION The feminist writer Julie Bindel describes prostitution as “harmful and abusive” and salaciously misrepresents the sex-worker-led movement to decriminalise it as the “happy hooker crew” (News Review, last week). In fact, it consists of women determined not to starve and see our children go without. Bindel condemns Labour, the Liberal Democrats […]
Jane Wharton Sex workers are facing increasing levels of violence (Picture: Getty) ‘Draconian laws’ and increasing poverty have exposed sex workers to soaring rates of rape and assault, according to a leading pressure group. The English Collective of Prostitutes says two thirds had experienced violence within the last month alone. It has also highlighted that […]
With Lisa Longstaff. Lisa works for Women Against Rape, supporting victims of rape. She chats to Bibi and Miranda about the new play, No Bad Women: Rape On Trial.
A harrowing watch, but an important one, says Jane Fae BY JANE FAE There must be cheerier ways to pass a Saturday night than at a play about the real life events surrounding a long ago rape trial. Catching the latest Ken Loach, perhaps. Or listening to the collected speeches of Nigel Farage. But if […]
Lisa Longstaff of Women Against Rape and Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes outside Crossroads Women’s Centre in Kentish Town where they are based In 1995 Women Against Rape and the English Collective of Prostitutes joined forces to bring England’s first private prosecution for the assaults on two sex workers, now a play […]
by Sonia Elks | @SoniaElks | Thomson Reuters Foundation It’s estimated that about two-thirds of sex workers have suffered some kind of violence LONDON, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police and prosecutors are becoming less willing to take action over rapes reported by sex workers, the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) said as a play highlighted their work […]
A new play called “No Bad Women” tells the true story of a landmark trial that opened up a new avenue to justice for survivors. By Emma Garland In the 1990s, serial rapist Christopher Davies assaulted two separate women at knifepoint when they visited his house in the south of England. The first – a tattooed […]
‘I was in a desperate financial situation, no parents to support me and about to become homeless. As I am disabled and was in full-time education, my opportunities for work were, and remain, limited,’ says woman Maya Oppenheim Women’s Correspondent @mayaoppenheim Austerity is pushing women into prostitution and the criminalisation of the industry is putting them in […]
