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Are Brown’s Babes Sacrificing Sex Workers to Hang on to Seats? |
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Written by Dr. Belinda Brooks-Gordon
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Jacqui Smith made clear her intention to criminalize clients of 'trafficked' sex workers in her speech at Lab conference and stated that next month, she will start work to outlaw paying for sex with someone 'forced into prostitution at another's will, or controlled for another's gain'. Yet she seems shy of giving the actual figures of trafficked workers. The official figures for the police operation Pentameter 1 showed, that despite 55 forces hunting for them, only 88 women were trafficked. It is accepted on all three sides of debate that 80,000 work in sex industry, the number of trafficked amounts to 1.1% of those in sex work. And criminalizing the clients (who often tip off police about any qualms they have about a worker's status) of that small percentage will only make things worse for the workers.
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A Matter of Life and Death |
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Written by Amrit Wilson
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
BAMER (Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee) women and children facing violence are finding themselves without routes to, and places of, safety, because of New Labour’s Community Cohesion and Supporting People policies.
There are now only have 50% of specialist independent BAMER women’s led organisations across the UK that existed five years ago. This is occurring against a background where services are extremely scarce anyway. In 2007, a woman victim of domestic violence had on average 11 contacts with agencies before getting the help she needed – for Black women this rose to17 (Fawcett Society, 2007).
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Womens' Rights in Northern Ireland? |
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Written by Mary Partington
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
 "The effect of the amendment would be to give women in Northern Ireland exactly the same rights to abortion with NHS funding that women elsewhere in Britain have."
MPs pushing abortion rights in NI - BBC News
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