Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
How can prostitution ever conform with our employment laws and practice?
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010

A CO-ORDINATED international campaign is seeking to reframe prostitution, which is both a cause and a consequence of inequality between men and women, as simply a form of “work” no different from any other which should either be fully decriminalised or legalised.
Germany, the Netherlands and some other states have legalised systems where prostitution is controlled by the government and legal only in certain specified conditions.
In 2003 New Zealand introduced full decriminalisation, which involves the removal of all prostitution-specific laws, including laws against pimping and brothel-keeping.
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The Communist Party of Britain issues the following public statement on prostitution