66% of the human trafficking cases in the world occur in the Mekong sub-region. Vietnam is alarmed at the explosion in the numbers of women and children who trafficked to, for example, China. More than 22 000 cases of human trafficking have been identified by the country’s authorities since 2011. Alarmingly; human trafficking in this region is developing under new, troubling circumstances.
« I speak as a survivor and as a member of an international group of survivors working to end prostitution and as the founder and director of an exit program here in Boston, MA USA, a program designed and run by formerly prostituted women that connects women to needed resources and to each other. »
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.
During the international forum « Sexual Exploitation: A Human Rights Violation » in Mexico, Yves Charpenel, the Fondation Scelles’ President, delivered a long-awaited speech dealing with the contents of the French law (dated April 13, 2016) against the system of prostitution. The prospects of this law are revolutionary as they punish the purchase of a sexual act yet also decriminalize victims of this exploitation.
The web reflects the sexist and sexual violence suffered by young people in the streets, means of transportation or school playgrounds. This is the worrying finding by the sociological study on cybersexism (concerning the 12/15 years old teenagers - fr)which has just been published by the Centre Hubertine Auclert. Beyond the Pyrénées, a recent Spanish study shows 20% of the students interviewed think there is no problem in “using the services” of a prostituted person. Is the trivialization of sexual violence, sexual domination and sexism going to be a usual aspect of youth’s lives?