British Union Launches Sex Worker Drive

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BBC News, Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Britain's fourth largest union is starting a campaign to recruit more lap-dancers, porn industry workers and prostitutes as members.

Wednesday's launch has been timed to coincide with memorials across the world for prostitutes murdered by a serial killer in America.

The GMB's entertainment and sex workers branch currently has just 200 members.

Branch national organiser Martin Smith told BBC News they were some of the most vulnerable workers in the country.

An estimated 250,000 work in the sex industry in Britain.

The GMB is calling for a review of laws that it says discriminate against sex workers.

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Canadian Sex Workers invite Martin to Vigil

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Groups representing Canadian sex workers have asked Prime Minister Paul Martin to decriminalize prostitution and attend a vigil Wednesday in memory of murdered sex-trade workers around the world.

The Montreal-based Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers, along with three other groups -- Sero-Zero, Stella, and the International Union of Sex Workers -- say the laws on prostitution are partly to blame for violence against sex workers.

They say that "the criminalization that occurs as a result of these laws and the application prevents sex workers from accessing social protection."

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