Law of 13 April : the Minister of Justice already sent a circular to prosecutors

Published on Thursday, 21 April 2016 07:25

A few days after the passage of the law against the prostitution system, the Minister of Justice has released a circular to all French prosecutors. This cornerstone of a comprehensive system is to present the main provisions of the Act of 13 April 2016.

The Scelles Foundation celebrates with all the abolitionists the final adoption of the french law against the prostitution system

Published on Thursday, 07 April 2016 07:59

France has adopted national landmark legislation under the impetus of the constant work by committed parliament members and 60 militant NGOs of the collective Abolition2012. Almost 70 years since the Marthe Richard law closed the brothels, France finally adopts a comprehensive law strengthening the fight against the prostitution system and the support of prostituted persons.

France is thus the fourth European country after Sweden, Norway and Iceland to reverse the criminal charge that no longer targets prostituted persons but sex-buyers. This abolitionist impulse is a decisive step towards harmonization of European legislation according to the UN Convention of 2 December 1949.

Beyond its symbolic and major option, the law aims to reduce prostitution through a range of measures in order to protect prostituted persons, to increase pressure on pimps and traffickers, to help change attitudes on this exploitation which is an obstacle to equality between women and men.

This law will allow to :
- Assure victims of pimping and human trafficking greater physical and psychological protection and a better access to financial compensation
- Repeal all forms of criminalization of prostituted persons by deleting the offense of soliciting,
- Set up a way out of prostitution policy aiming to offer real alternatives for people seeking to leave prostitution,
- Reinforce the fight against pimping, procuring and trafficking on the Internet
- Prohibit the purchase of sex acts,
- Establish a policy of education and prevention of prostitution establishing the principle of no comodification of human body.

The Scelles Foundation welcomes this great victory. We bet that our founder Jean Scelles for whom "the client is the one that creates prostitution and all traffic that it involves" would have applauded this great abolitionist project, embodied at last.

The Foundation will continue to monitor the law inforcement procedures. We already invite parliament members and each of us to provide the adequat means to turn each proposed measure into a tangible reality.

Refugees and displaced people, victims of terrorist groups

Published on Friday, 11 March 2016 12:04

CAP International, organizer, and Scelles Foundation are preparing to participate in the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) in New York. The two associations will speak as part of a Side Event on Wednesday 16 March in the presence of Mrs. Laurence Rossignol, Minister for Families, Children and Women's Rights and Zainab Hawa Bangura, the UN Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflicts. The topic of this intervention placed in the official agenda will focus on "Refugees and displaced persons, victims of terrorist groups: women and girls exposed to a continuum of sexual violence and exploitation." Grégoire Thery, Managing Director of Cap International, and Secretary General of the Mouvement du Nid and Yves Charpenel, President of the Scelles Foundation, will be among the speakers. Mrs Nadia MURAD BASED TAHA, Yezidi survivor of sexual exploitation by DAECH, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, will provide testimony and Zoya Rouhana, director of KAFA Association

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PPL: The National Assembly faithful to his convictions

Published on Thursday, 04 February 2016 11:05

They stood. For over three years this process has started, they are they still there, valiant to defend this bill despite opposition, despite the alterations, despite the vagaries of the political calendar. Pascale Boistard, Maud Olivier, Catherine Coutelle, Guy Geoffroy and others have yet to show pugnacity in the Chamber to recall once again the merits of this legislation strengthening the fight against the prostitution system and support for prostitutes.