Friday, September 22, 2006
Proposal to Abolish Prostitution in Spain
In Spain it is currently legal to provide this "service" and, there is certainly no shortage of "sex workers" in the Canary Islands - that have been referred to as "Europe's brothel".
However, as has been previously reported "around 80 percent of prostitutes working in Spain (probably 90% in the Canary Islands) are immigrants, many of them illegal ... There is little doubt that many of the foreign prostitutes have been coerced into the trade by criminals who lured them to Spain with false promises of other jobs."
Tenerife:ciudad de mujeres (Tenerife: City of Women) blog report that the association, Jueces para la Democracia (Judges for Democracy) have opened an internal debate to study a report that is radically in favour of the abolition of prostitution in Spain.
The association rejects any form of legalization of this activity, which they classify as "against human dignity" and a manifestation of violence against women and their situation of inequality. Their assertion is that voluntary prostitution is rare and that, in reality is closely linked to immigration, trafficking of women and slavery.
Inmaculada Montalbán, spokeswoman for the association, has indicated that, "the current reality is prostitution of mostly immigrant women, in vulnerable situations and who are in no condition to decide if they wish to exercise prostitution."
Montalbán is also one of the people who will take part in a commission to study prostitution in the Spanish Congress.
Jueces para la Democracia propone abolir la prostitución
However, as has been previously reported "around 80 percent of prostitutes working in Spain (probably 90% in the Canary Islands) are immigrants, many of them illegal ... There is little doubt that many of the foreign prostitutes have been coerced into the trade by criminals who lured them to Spain with false promises of other jobs."
Tenerife:ciudad de mujeres (Tenerife: City of Women) blog report that the association, Jueces para la Democracia (Judges for Democracy) have opened an internal debate to study a report that is radically in favour of the abolition of prostitution in Spain.
The association rejects any form of legalization of this activity, which they classify as "against human dignity" and a manifestation of violence against women and their situation of inequality. Their assertion is that voluntary prostitution is rare and that, in reality is closely linked to immigration, trafficking of women and slavery.
Inmaculada Montalbán, spokeswoman for the association, has indicated that, "the current reality is prostitution of mostly immigrant women, in vulnerable situations and who are in no condition to decide if they wish to exercise prostitution."
Montalbán is also one of the people who will take part in a commission to study prostitution in the Spanish Congress.
Jueces para la Democracia propone abolir la prostitución
