EU-Report zur Freierkriminalisierung
Der EU–»Report on Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation and its Impact on Gender Equality« schlägt die Kriminalisierung von Prostitutionskund_innen nach dem »Schwedischen Modell« vor. Sexarbeiter_innen, NGOs und Wissenschaftler_innen kritisieren die mangelnde Berücksichtigung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse zu den negativen Folgen der Freierkriminalisierung.
Als Zeichen des Protests entstanden u.a. ein informeller Gegenreport einer zunächst am EU-Report beteiligten Wissenschaftlerin, sowie zahlreiche Prostschreiben. Die ICRSE kommentiert:
A Critique of the “Report on Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation and its Impact on Gender Equality” by Mary Honeyball, MEP
Tue, 18 February 2014 ICRSE Coordinator
Dear Members of the European Parliament,
We, the undersigned, would like to voice our serious concerns regarding the “Report on Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation and its Impact on Gender Equality”, drafted by Mary Honeyball, MEP for London, which will be voted upon during a plenary session on the 27th of February 2014 at the European Parliament. The report recommends the so-called “Swedish Model” – by which buying sexual services is criminalised but selling them remains legal.The aim of this letter is not to reiterate our arguments against the Swedish Model. We believe sex workers’ organisations themselves will have already demonstrated the ineffectiveness and dangers of this model and we strongly recommend consulting and listening to them in regards to policies and all other matters that directly affect them.
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