Motion
- Motion title
- Informed decision-making and safety in sex work
- Session
- 2022-2023
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 27 May 2023
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 54
- Motion text
Congress notes existing policy (motion 56, 207) which commits UCU to support self-organised sex workers in their call for decriminalisation of sex work to allow collective working and improved safety, and to work with NUS and other relevant groups.
Congress recognises:
1. The right of adults to make informed choices to engage in sex work and for safety in that work, or to leave it
2. That sex workers are subject to intersectional stigma and discrimination
3. Increased risks for sex workers arising from inadequate support and information
4. Growing economic pressures which inhibits choice.
Congress resolves to task Equality Committee to work with all equality standing committees, student organisations including the NUS, and other relevant organisations to:
a. Create a toolkit which supports informed and safe routes of entry into and exit from sex work
5. Pursue campaigns to support decriminalisation of sex work, collective working, and safe choices
- Proposing body
- Women members' standing committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Equality committee
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2023/C/05-27/031/54