Faţa ascunsă a prostituţiei legalizate. De ce legalizarea prostituţiei nu poate fi o soluţie
On April 22nd, 2015, Bucharest hosted, at the Parliament building, the international conference “Politicians and Civil Society against human trafficking”. The event participants on behalf of Western European civil society organizations warned that legalizing prostitution has made impossible to combat human trafficking. They also said that no more than 10% of sex workers are doing…
În luna aprilie, legislativul francez a adoptat o nouă lege care privește lupta contra prostituției și traficului de persoane, prin care se interzice solicitarea/cumpărarea de servicii sexuale, nu însă și oferirea/vânzarea lor. Clienții prostituatelor vor fi amendați sever și obligați la urmarea unor cursuri despre răul pe care îl provoacă traficul de sex. Legea, votată cu…
Chelsea Lane was a freshman at Reed, the esteemed liberal-arts college in Portland, Oregon, when she first became interested in sex work. Someone in her humanities class had a Tumblr about being a prostitute, prompting a lively debate among fellow students over whether they could ever sell their bodies. “I started reading sex workers’ blogs,”…
January was National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness month, a time set aside to reflect on the way forward in global efforts to combat trafficking in persons, and this month the 22nd annual edition of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom was published. It is an opportune moment to highlight one of the best…
**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITON, APRIL 4-5**Anita Cannibal, a prostitute working at the Chicken Ranch brothel, is silhouetted as she rests in her bedroom in Pahrump, Nev., Tuesday, March 31, 2009. For more than 30 years customers have been patronizing the working girls of Nevada’s legal brothels, though the state has not collected a dollar in…
On a Saturday night in late May, I sat in the back seat of a taxi as it drove through a shantytown in Baghdad. We were not far from Firdos Square, where, in April of 2003, invading American troops famously toppled a large statue of Saddam Hussein. A highway passed overhead, its traffic thudding, and Baghdad’s…
Fara indoiala, prostitutia este sclavia vremurilor moderne. Din pacate, importanta organizatie Amnesty International se afla de partea gresita a istoriei, avand in vedere solicitarea sa recenta de legalizare a acestei practici. Prostitutia e o practica imorala care injoseste femeile si barbatii. Ca atare nu poate fi un „drept al omului”, in sensul in care legislatia…
…But use the law to drive down demand, say experts in public health and culture. A vote at Amnesty International’s decision-making forum earlier this month has committed the human rights organization to promoting the full decriminalization of prostitution – a step, it claims, that will protect “sex workers” human rights and prevent trafficking and the exploitation of…
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