(Page 2 of 2) Under the red light asked the Health Protection Agency, an independent agency set up by the Government to deal with infectious diseases, if there were any data available about the incidence of HIV among sex workers. We were told that such data doesn’t exist, even though figures were available about the [...]
A leading HIV charity says criminalizing sex work can only endanger efforts to prevent HIV and other STIs, by forcing sex workers “to go underground”. Instead, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has called for a change in sex work laws that would allow people involved in the sex trade to work together in a “safer” [...]
For eight years, photojournalist Mimi Chakarova tracked down women who were trafficked for prostitution. Her in-depth investigation took her from the Bulgarian village where she was born to the streets of Turkey and to nightclubs in Dubai. She is now sharing the stories of the women she met during her journey with her latest documentary [...]
Unionized sex workers have joined, this morning, the public sector strike against pension changes. But, while sex workers protest on the streets, the human rights group OBJECT says the strikers’ stance that “prostitution is just another job” is “seriously misfounded”. As Under the red light reported this morning, the sex workers’ branch of the GMB [...]
The sex workers’ branch of the GMB union will join, later today, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers that go on strike over pensions, both in England and Wales. Public sector workers – most of them teachers – have called a strike because of the Government’s proposals to change pensions for public sector workers [...]
