Prostitution is a social issue where countries, even within Europe, have implemented extremely diverse legal arsenals. Moreover, in recent years, several European countries have significantly changed their approach toward prostitution.
Germany, for instance, has chosen to legalize prostitution in January , while France has passed a law that decriminalize persons in prostitution and criminalize buyers of sex in April A few years after these new legislation frameworks have been implemented, what lessons can be drawn in France and in Germany? How could this comparative analysis contribute to feed the debate in Croatia? The aim of this event is to emphasize the reality of position of women in prostitution, by highlighting the relationship between prostitution and trafficking of women but also the consequences on the physical and psychological health of women in prostitution.
For this purpose, a documentary film by Christian P. Corinne Meunier, French ambassador to Croatia. What are the main disposition of the law adopted in April and their impact on the French society?
Did it make a difference for women in prostitution? What is still to be done? Elected Senator of Oise in , she was rapporteur of the special commission charged to examine the proposal of law penalizing the customers of prostitution and the author of an information report on the retirement of the women. She led the adoption of laws relating to the protection of children and the adaptation of society to aging;.
It is both an association on the ground and a movement of society. Gathering employees and volunteers in 26 regional delegations, the Mouvement du Nid supports prostitutes in their efforts to access justice, care and social security and in the different steps to leave prostitution.
