As a young nonprofit serving women demonized and dismissed in the best of times, to say our challenges have been exacerbated by COVID is an understatement. Nevertheless, we persisted. We not only continued to provide face-to-face support, we expanded supports for prostituted people, and opened and operated an emergency shelter.

"“Violence in the sex trade is the norm not the exception,” Nikki Bell, the CEO of Living in Freedom Together, which supports women leaving prostitution, told The Post.

Activists, survivors, frontline agencies and policy-makers from Ireland and across the world gathered in Dublin to call out The Sexual Violence of Prostitution & Pornography.

If you’re a prostituted woman who makes the uncommon decision to call police because you’ve been attacked, your outcome, according to Nicole Bell, CEO of Living in Freedom Together (LIFT) is likely to be much different.