APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

@appg-cse.bsky.social

All-Party Parliamentary Group | Chair: Tonia Antoniazzi MP | Secretariat: UK Feminista | Email: contact@appg-cse.uk

Important news: Today, the UK Government has tabled an amendment to the Crime & Policing Bill giving it the power to force p*rnography websites to verify everyone in their videos is an adult, gave permission for the video to be published and can later withdraw their consent. 1/3

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"When the crime bill returns to the Commons, the government should throw its weight behind a new, stronger model of consent." 👏 Government must accept in full Baroness Gabby Bertin's amendment requiring age & ongoing consent checks on p*rnography websites. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it | Susanna Rustin

The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? says author Susanna Rustin

theguardian.com

Our members - Tonia Antoniazzi MP, Jess Asato MP, Tracy Gilbert MP, Kirsteen Sullivan MP, Polly Billington MP, Sarah Champion MP, Antonia Bance MP, Katrina Murray MP, Baroness Bertin & Baroness Jenkin - have signed this important letter in today's Times 👇 www.thetimes.com/article/d615...

Force porn sites to verify age and consent, ministers told

Campaigners against sexual exploitation want publishers to check the age of those appearing in explicit material and whether they have given their consent

thetimes.com

Government has pledged to equalise regulation of p*rnography online and offline, boosting controls on websites which freely peddle violence & abuse. The APPG has has long advocated this. Over 50 MPs backed Vice Chair @jessasatomp.bsky.social's amendment on it 🧵 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Ministers to ban violent and degrading pornography online

The ban will include content depicting acts such as rape and incest, bringing websites in line with pornographic videos sold in shops

thetimes.com

Industrial scale sex trafficking is being perpetrated across the UK, while the p*rnography trade continues to peddle exploitation & abuse. Members of the APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation have been working hard to push this to the top of the political agenda & secure action from Government 👇

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The APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation strongly supports Ash Regan MSP's Prostitution Bill, being debated tomorrow in the Scottish Parliament. The Bill would outlaw paying for sex and decriminalise victims - recognising prostitution is violence against women. UK Government must follow suit.

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