This year, the Fondation Scelles Awards 4th edition will start with the best pleading contest: young people get engaged against prostitution and trade with purposes of sexual exploitation. The secretaries of the Paris bar conference will have to plead on the theme of the concrete enforcement of the April 13th 2016 law intending to reinforce the fight against the prostitution system and accompany prostituted persons.
It is the third consecutive year that the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière has joined the Fondation Scelles in its pedagogical curriculum. A guarantee of trust, esteem and commitment. Within the framework of the session "Communication visuelle", 16 young people will work on the "sex-buyers", as a co-responsible actor of sexual exploitation.
After Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Canada, Northern Ireland and France, Ireland adopts the legislation that removes the offence of soliciting and ends the impunity of the sex-buyers by criminalizing the purchase of sex act. The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2015 was passed last night by a majority of parliamentarians. The Scelles Foundation is pleased with this new abolitionist victory and welcomes the associations, activists survivors, parliamentarians and civil society organizations that have succeeded in achieving this result after years of struggle.
PRESS RELEASE OF Ruhama, member of CAP international, a coalition of 18 abolitionist frontline NGOs, including the Scelles Foundation
In the framework of his awareness actions, the Fondation Scelles President, Yves Charpenel, the 1st public prosecutor at the Cassation Court, attends today the seminar which is organized by the Mouvement du Nid-Loiret on the theme: “Cyber-harrassment, hyper-sexualization, pornography.
The first 2 days have began with deeply emotional and informative testimonies from survivors and the most vulnerable women and girls, followed by a precise assessment of the realities of prostitution and sexual exploitation in the SAARC region. Today, the World Congress against sexual exploitation gathered representatives of trade unions, parliamentarians and institutions officials, youth and students movements, and actors of the new technologies sector.