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West Midlands police clamp down on street workers and clients 23 Jun 2013 | 08:35 pm
The West Midlands are having a clamp down on street sex work. Targeting street walkers and their clients on Hagley Road. Listen to interviews from Catherine Stephens from the International Union of Se...
Full BBC radio interview with 80 year old client of sex workers 23 Jun 2013 | 03:44 pm
BBC iPM hears from an elderly listener who was faithful for 40 years, struggled with his wife’s death, but now often pays for sex. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. This is the full intervi...
Sex and the disabled 22 Jun 2013 | 10:19 pm
Laura Lee blogger, sex worker and sexwork rights activist appears on the mainstream UK television program Sex on Wheels. Here she works with a disabled client who has never had sex before. There are ...
Rhoda Grant and Margo McDonald argue about criminalising the buyer 5 Jun 2013 | 03:38 am
Rhoda Grant (Labour MSP) who wants to criminalise the buyer, and thus punish sex workers is trying to bring forward a bill in the Scottish Parliament. Here she is arguing her case with Margo McDonald...
Laura Lee and Rhoda Grant on STV discussing the results of Rhoda’s consultation 5 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
Laura Lee and Rhoda Grant discuss (polite word) the proposed law on criminalising the purchaser of sexual services in Scotland. Rhoda Grant who is proposing the private members bill has just complete...
HARDtalk Dr Brooke Magnanti Scientist and former prostitute 30 Jan 2013 | 04:45 am
BBC Hardtalk with Brooke Magnanti discussing prostitution, Was show a couple of weeks ago. Click here to view the video on YouTube. More videos on sexwork and the present Scottish and Irish cri...
Policing and policy on prostitution during London 2012 Olympics: “Harm Was Done” 18 Dec 2012 | 01:27 am
Policing and policy on prostitution during London 2012 Olympics: “Harm Was Done”. Frontline services say: our expertise was ignored vulnerable women were put in danger there was greater risk to pu...
The IUSW submission to the Rhoda Grant consultation on prostitution in Scotland 15 Dec 2012 | 02:56 am
An organisational response to the consultation by Rhoda Grant on the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex (Scotland) Bill (2) The International Union of Sex Workers December 2012 Policies that so...
A letter from an Irish Seworker. please read and publish. 12 Dec 2012 | 07:26 pm
Today Ireland’s Justice Committee is to start hearings on prostitution legislation. You can watch online, they are taking place in Committee Room 2 from 2 p.m. G.M.T. onwards. All of the organisations...
Initial response by the English Collective of Prostitutes to European Women’s Lobby recommendations. 4 December 2012 5 Dec 2012 | 04:45 am
Posted by the ECP (English Collective of Prostitutes) 1. At a time of economic crisis when poverty among women and children is rising throughout Europe (see EWL own research [1]) and more wome...
