The ECP is a self-help network of sex workers of different nationalities and backgrounds, working in different areas of the sex industry — both on the streets and indoors. The ECP campaigns to end the criminalisation of sex workers — which undermines safety — and for housing, higher benefits, wages and other resources — to enable sex workers to get out of prostitution if they want to.
The ECP also provides daily support and information to sex workers on legal , discrimination, health and other issues. Further, the French police association said that criminalising clients would make it more difficult to dismantle pimping networks as clients would not dare to speak out. Above all, the Senate Select Committee has taken into account the voices of those first concerned, sex workers themselves. Recently the debate around prostitution in the UK has been dominated by moralists who fail to engage with sex workers.
Consequently, a UK parliamentary investigation has proposed to follow the Nordic model where buying sex is a criminal act. Now UK sex workers are protesting. Sex workers have fought tirelessly against criminalisation proposals in every country where this dangerous approach has threatened safety and livelihoods. UK politicians still supporting the failed Nordic Model must consider the mounting evidence against it. This is a model the UK should adopt. New Zealand allowed up to four people to work together from premises with each sex worker keeping control over their own earnings.
Importantly, New Zealand has reinforced offences against compelling anyone into prostitution, gave sex workers the specific right to refuse any client, and gave local authorities powers to inspect premises on health and safety grounds. It removes prostitution from the criminal law, allows people to work together collectively, and distinguishes between violence and consenting sex.
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