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Prostitution in the media in 2022: Societies in the face of violence and war exploitation
Maine: The First State in the US to Adopt the Nordic Model
Germany : The dark side of this development: up to and including April 2023, at least 85 homicides of prostituted persons committed by clients or persons from the milieu have been documented; in addition, there have been at least 49 attempted homicides designated as such by German law.
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DEALING WITH THE DEMAND FOR PROSTITUTION : THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE

Prostitution Law in France : A law intended to protect the most vulnerable ones

The April 13th 2016 French law on prostitution comprises, in about 20 articles, all the necessary measures to offer protection and possible options to prostitutes, to punish perpetrators (pimps, sex-buyers), ), to enforce a prevention and awareness policy meant to educate citizens in terms of prostitution realities and gender equality.  This global law law is to be fully applied across the whole country as soon as all the decrees arez published.

Hémicycle de l'assemblée nationale

 

1. A law meant to protect and accompany victims

- Decriminalization of prostitutes through the abolition of the offence for soliciting

- Implementation of ways out and options

- Granting of protective residence permit

- Financial aid for social and professional rehabilitation

- Development of structures dedicated to prostitution, trade and pimping victims

 

>>> Read also : The Fondation Scelles celebrates the vote of the law against the prostitution system with all the abolitionnist actors

 

2. A law meant to proceed and convict the perpetrators

- Combat against pimping on the web

- Conviction of the sexual purchase

- Creation of aggravant circumstance in case of violence against prostituted persons

 

Read also >>> April 13th law : the Garde des Sceaux has already sent a circular to the parquets (public prosecutor’s office)

 

3. A prevention and awareness law aimed at citizens

- Information policy on the realities of prostitution and combat against the merchandization of bodies

- Development of awareness sessions dealing with the fight against the purchase of sexual acts

- Creation of a fund for the prevention of prostitution

 

Read also >>> Interview of Guillaume Lascaux who is the first public prosecutor to apply the new law on prostitution

Read also >>> the 6 key points of the prostitution law

 

 

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