The British government announced plans Wednesday to make it illegal to pay for sex with women forced into prostitution — a measure that sex workers say will put more women at risk.

From the Morning Star. UNIONISED sex workers marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Tuesday by slamming Women’s Minister Harriet Harman for misunderstanding their plight. Ms Harman called on women to combat violence in the sex industry in an address to the Women’s Institute, where she singled out local newspapers’ tolerance of “adult

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts. Labour women are coming together at a crucial time to discuss the fact that women are being hit twice as hard as men by the tax and welfare changes being brought in by this Government. Changes to women’s pensi...

We live in a society that has very successfully sold the sex industry to us as an empowering 'lifestyle' choice where women exploit men's 'need' for sex in order to extract money from them. We are told that it's a free choice and feminists who criticise that choice are prudes, anti sex and anti women. This cultural narrative is a chimera that disguises the real story ...

The minister for women calls on Women's Institute members in England to complain to editors about sex adverts in local newspapers.

Why is it that the Punditiers who were keen to kill Gordon are mainly women- Toynbee, Miles, Ashley? Sorry, but it can’t be that Blair was a sex object. Browns a fat father figure and strong women hate their dads but love a lothario. Sure, they pretend to know what cabinet ministers intend to do it could be that women have been gossiping to women. Could Kelly be the source? Alternatively, it...

More than 500 women will meet at Labour Women’s Conference to discuss what women want and to demand action from the Government to stop women bearing the brunt of government cuts.

The Home Secretary has announced plans to criminalise the paying for sex to prostitutes who are controlled by pimps. And anyone knowingly paying illegally trafficked women for sex could face rape charges. This is part of the government's drive to clamp down on prostitution by targeting their clients, rather than the women themselves (whom the government considers to be victims). I do think it...

Today we have published Women and Recession, a report considering the impacts that this downturn will have for women in formal employment. While we are not arguing that women will be affected more than men we highlight that women will be hit more by this downturn than previous recessions, and that...

Research published today on London’s sex industry – and the experiences of the women who can be trafficked into forced prostitution - is chilling. Some women valued at £15 a go, and recognition from male purchasers that the prices are so low they may be buying sex with slaves: She was frightened...