We know that Diana Johnson MP tabled amendments to the Police and Crime bill today in an attempt to bring in the Nordic Model on sex work. We think it’s very unlikely that these amendments will pass: it doesn’t seem to be a government priority right now and it would require (1/8)
serious funding to enforce. However, we still need to keep showing our opposition to the Nordic Model. Our open letter against the Nordic Model has been signed by nearly 250 organisations, academics, journalists and activists, as well as over 1,600 individual signatories. (2/8)
We know the harms of the Nordic Model: @MdM_France research shows that the Nordic Model law in France “had a detrimental effect on sex workers’ safety, health and overall living conditions”. @uglymugsie reported that crimes against sex workers almost doubled in the two years (3/8
following the introduction of the Nordic Model in Ireland. The Nordic Model harms, impoverishes and endangers sex workers. (4/8)
We have support in the fight against the Nordic Model from @amnestyuk, @freedomunitedHQ, @stonewalluk, @libertyhq, @JCWI_UK, @GMB_Union, @CWUnews, @UVWunion, @ucu, @sistersuncut, @peoplesmomentum, @openlabour, @LGBTlabour, and literally hundreds more. (5/8)
If you haven’t already, you can read and sign our open letter here! bit.ly/3cKMlcf Please share with your friends, so that we can raise as much awareness as possible of the evidence for decrim and the fight against the Nordic Model. (6/8)
Hundreds of you also emailed your MPs recently to ask them to support decriminalisation and oppose the Nordic Model. Right now we need you to stay engaged with the movement to #KillTheBill. Even without Diana Johnson’s amendments, this bill is bad for everyone: its proposals (7/8
would restrict our right to protest, criminalise the GRT community’s way of life, create new stop and search powers, and more. We have to come together to protect sex workers and other marginalised communities, & to show the government that we won’t allow this bill to pass. (8/8)
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