Evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Prostitution Submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Prostitution 1) ‘Whether criminal sanction in relation to prostitution should continue to fall more heavily on those who sell sex, rather than those who buy it.’ Criminal sanction should not fall on either seller or buyer. We …
Press release: highlighting the vulnerability that prostitute women and wives share On Thursday 21 December, St Albans Crown Court will sentence Victor Powell, found guilty of abducting and raping a prostitute woman. The English Collective of Prostitutes and Women Against Rape will hold a vigil outside the court, together with and in support of Powell’s …
Against ourselves: Why Women Against Rape couldn’t join a march through Soho… Whose Night? Women Against Rape, the English Collective of Prostitutes and the Wages for Housework Campaign were unable to take part in the Nation Union of Student’s Reclaim the Night march in February 1981 and were forced to leave a planning meeting for …
Women against rape: An introduction and statement of aims. More than ever before the front pages of our newspapers are reporting cases of rape. Married or single, young, old or still a child, whatever her race or class – every women knows it could happen to her….
