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SexworkerOpenUni · « **on:** 03 December 2014, 09:10:21 pm »

This year's IDEVASW event - Wednesday 17 December - Organised by the ECP and supported by SWOU

6.30pm: candlelit march ? from Soho Square to St Anne?s Church.
7.15pm: Soho Trot by Ana Aranha. Documentary featuring powerful interviews and true testimonies from sex workers working independently in Soho flats who fought police raids and evictions, St Anne?s Church 55 Dean St.
8pm: Speak Out featuring actors Rupert Everett & Sarah Solemani.

One year on from the shocking mass raids in Soho when 250 police in riot gear with dogs stormed women?s flats, sex workers and supporters will:
? celebrate the successful struggle that defeated evictions and closures ? remember and commemorate lives lost in the last year
? report on the campaign to stop further criminalisation
? demand an end to criminalisation, stigma and poverty which makes us vulnerable to all forms of violence and exploitation.

Marianna Popa and Maria Duque-Tunjano and others were murdered this time last year. Many others have lost their lives who have never hit the headlines. Over 200 unsolved murders of women, many of them sex workers, were identified by police Operation Enigma. Rape and other violence are common yet fear of arrest and, if we are immigrant, deportation deter most sex workers from reporting. Some victims have been arrested for prostitution offences while their attackers go free. That?s how serial rapists and murderers are enabled and encouraged.

http://prostitutescollective.net/2014/12/02/international-day-end-violence-sex-workers-17-dec/

Princess · « **Reply #1 on:** 05 December 2014, 11:27:09 pm »

And if anyone is in Ireland, north or south.

Belfast, Ireland

5:00pm

Scrap Clause 15 ? International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Venue: Belfast City Hall

December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Sex workers and their allies around the world will be taking action in the on-going struggle for empowerment, visibility, and rights for all sex workers.
The Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers was first recognized in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims of the Green River Killer in Seattle Washington. Since 2003, the Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers has empowered people from cities around the world to come together and organise against discrimination and remember victims of violence.
Join us at the front of the city hall at 5.00pm to raise awareness about violence that is commonly committed against sex workers. The assault, battery, rape and murder of sex workers must end. Racism and economic inequality and systems of colonialist, capitalist violence and oppression must end. The stigma and discrimination and criminalisation that makes violence against sex workers acceptable must end. Please join with sex workers around the world and stand against criminalisation and violence committed against our communities.
Clause 15 of the Human Trafficking Bill (formerly known as clause 6) will become law on 1st June 2015. The clause makes the purchase of sex illegal which will drive prostitution further underground placing sex workers here in greater danger from violent assault.
This demo has been called by the Solidarity Federation Belfast Local and the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland.

Belgrade, Serbia

Bucharest, Romania

Budapest, Hungary

Dublin, Ireland

6:00pm

Venue: Outside D?il

We will have a Vigil at the D?il on Wednesday December 17th at 6pm, where we will remember those sex workers who have suffered violence or been killed, often as a result of criminalisation and stigma. We ask for the members of the public and other sex workers to join us. There will be masks available for those concerned about their identity.

See also the main SAAFE.info site for more Support And Advice For Escorts

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