International Press Overview on Prostitution International Observatory CRIDES SCELLES FOUNDATION 2 Recognized as a public utility since 1994, the Scelles Foundation is an organization that fights against human trafficking, the prostitution system, and the exploitation of persons in prostitution. As a major actor of advocacy and mobilization against sexual exploitation, the Scelles Foundation has created an international observatory (CRIDES) to inform, advocate and sensitize about the phenomenon. The CRIDES (Center for international research and documentation on sexual exploitation) is a worldwide hub which allows information, meeting and exchange about the system of prostitution. 14 rue Mondétour – 75001 Paris (France) - www.fondationscelles.org - http://crides.fondationscelles.org Facebook.com/fondationscelles - @Fond_Scelles Reference of the document : Fondation Scelles/Observatoire international CRIDES, International Press Overview on Prostitution – year 2016 , september 2017. The press articles research and compilation have been realized by Catherine Goldmann , in collaboration with Catherine Ozenfant et Sandra Ayad . © Fondation Scelles, June 2017. International Press Overview on Prostitution - Year 2016 Prepared by the International Observatory CRIDES 3 Table of Content - 2016 Selected News……………………………………..….… 5 - 2016 International Press Overview on Prostitution January 2016………………………………………….…... 14 February 2016…………………………………………….. 18 March 2016………………………………………………. 22 April 2016………………………………………………… 26 May 2016………………………………………………… 33 June 2016………………………………………………… 37 July 2016………………………………………………… 43 August 2016…………………………………………...…. 47 September 2016………………………………………….. 52 October 2016…………………………………………….. 58 November 2016…………………………………………… 62 December 2016……………………………………………. 66 International Press Overview on Prostitution - Year 2016 Prepared by the International Observatory CRIDES 4 International Press Overview on Prostitution - Year 2016 Prepared by the International Observatory CRIDES 5 2016 Selected News JANUARY 2016 - Europe - A trafficking network of women dismantled (Albania, Slovakia, Italy) - 10.000 child refugees reported as disappeared according to Interpol - Central African Republic - UN reveal that UN peacekeeping forces paid for sex with 13 years old teenagers - China - The Chinese police dismantle a gang of crooks in connection with prostitution - France - A rehabilitation home for prostituted persons in Seine-et-Marne - Nantes city summoned for not prohibiting prostitution on its territory - Prostitution in Caen: severe penalties for the Nigerian network - In Lille, a “sex tour” of Chinese prostitution is dismantled - How many “likes” for a hotline rape? - Iraq - ISIS keeps 3.500 sexual slaves, mostly Yezidies - Luxembourg - Silence and taboos around prostitution are to be broken - Mexico - Violent teenager prostitution (a film by D. Pablos) - Nepal - People with risks (prostituted persons, children…) help Scandinavian companies to create a production line - Netherlands (The) - Prostituted persons become gentrified victims unwillingly in Amsterdam - New-Zealand - Desperate tenants start to conclude lease contracts in exchange for sexual services - Pakistan - A street children prostituting gang is arrested in Lahore - Sweden - The police admit they have covered up about fifteen sexual assaults during a festival - Switzerland - Dominican strip-teasers get work visas - Ever more massage-parlors in Geneva make neighbors angry - United Arab Emirates - Dubai as a hub for human trafficking and prostitution - United Kingdom - Mario Pionko’s death shows there is no “safe” way to manage prostitution - A conciliator appeals to the creation of a red district in Birmingham - “I want to hurt the women who took our husbands from us”, claim the ignored victims of prostitution - Sex and handicap: the England made striking campaign! - USA - Are the USA ready to decriminalize prostitution? - The FBI has a new plan intended to stop prostitution at the Super Bowl - Dismantling of an important prostitution network including 2 web sites and 12 brothels in Seattle - The police dismantle a prostitution network and save 12 South-Korean women forced to prostitute themselves by an ex-marijuana producer - 198 persons are arrested in a police raid aimed to fight against sexual traffic and 18 victims are saved - Yemen - A woman who is accused of adultery and prostitution, is buried up to her neck and stoned to death by AL Qaida FEBRUARY 2016 - Africa is the new harbor for Chinese prostituted persons - Europe - A study on European prostitution describes very different models - Belgium - Prostituted persons hit back at the new Brussels regulation on window prostitution - Young female Belgian students face procuring - Canada - Is Quebec City a model to follow in terms of juvenile prostitution? ( fight against cyber-threats and cyber- manipulations, among others) - Bill on women trade: Ottawa wishes it will be enforced “as soon as possible” - Quebec accused to be too cool concerning the youth centers case - Can the ads for prostitution services on the web be thwarted? - Girls offer their services to pimps - A prostitution network is infiltrated in a Laval youth center - France - “The walking woman”, Naël Marandin‘s first film on Chinese prostitution in Paris - The “very end” of the legislative marathon for the prostitution law International Press Overview on Prostitution - Year 2016 Prepared by the International Observatory CRIDES 6 - Chinese prostitution: investigation towards the west of France - Sexual blackmail with an underage girl: an alleged procurer is arrested - A procuring network dismantled in Toulouse - A couple organized a prostitution network in their Epinal apartment - Germany - Berlin reinforces the legislation in favor of prostitutes’ protection - Germany makes the use of condoms by clients compulsory - 5.000 migrant children are forced into prostitution and victims of organ trafficking - Indonesia - The government wants to put an end to prostitution and knocks down the largest “red district” in the capital - Israel - A bill to fight against teenage prostitution under development - Kenya - The country worries about wandering children who turn to prostitution so as to make money - Morocco - Does prostitution finance ISIS? - 19.000 prostituted people in Rabat, Agadir, Fes and Tangier, according to Newsweek - New-Zealand - A brothel organizes “open doors” sessions to raise funds in favor of a charity business for children - Senegal - Dismantling of a luxury prostitution network in Dakar exploiting Ukrainian and Moroccan women - Sweden - “Naïve Swedish people let houses to prostituted persons via AirBnb - Sweden needs more means for its fight against prostitution - Thailand - “there is a kind of tourism around the neighborhood youth” who goes on holidays to Thailand (“Pattaya” movie) - Ukraine - Sex, lies and psychological scars: the human trafficking crisis within the country - United Kingdom - First “red district” in Leeds: a cruel solution to prostitution and violence - 225.000 “Sugar babies” students? - Brutal reality of prostitution in Scotland - Publishing clients’ names is the best way to limit prostitution - Sexual tourists who pay prostituted persons abroad should be prosecuted in the UK - Policemen discover “short –lived brothels” in the Lake District intended to exploit trafficking victims refugees - USA - 14 years old girls rescued from sexual exploitation during the Super Bowl, according to the FBI - Watching pornographic pictures may make people indifferent to human slavery, says a university report (Northeastern University, Colorado College, Texas Christian University) MARCH 2016 - UN peacekeeping forces accused of sexual abuses: 69 cases in 2015, 21 involved countries - Islam and sex: Muslim popular culture reduces Islam to a phallic sexual morality - Canada - A center helps female natives who are at risk - Hunting procurers gets few results - Cambodia - Why don’t prostituted persons have to be rescued? - Colombia - Auction of 10 years old girls’ virginity to some crooks and tourists - France - Human trade in France is not a well documented phenomenon - The Toulouse mayor renews his anti-prostitution order for one more year - Sexual trade: a hosting family: “we host pimping networks victims” - Underage prostitution: need to give up denial - A woman in court because she is suspected of having prostituted her daughter - A new Romanian pimping network dismantled in the Jura - Dismantled Hungarian network operating in Strasbourg - New form of criminality in the suburbs: procuring and girls’ sexual exploitation; the new suburban “pimps” - The handicapped person’s sexual assistance needs to be acknowledged: 180 requests in 2015, sometimes by the very family - Germany - Law on prostitution: to protect or to supervise? - Vote of a law on prostitution which makes the use of a condom compulsory - India - “I bought a sexual slave’s freedom for 400 $” - Iraq - An ISIS’ former sex slave calls a “cri du coeur” - Israel – 12.000 women prostitute themselves, which brings in 300 million € - Lebanon -The police dismantles a trafficking network and rescues 75 sex slaves - Mali - Fight against human trade and pertaining practices: judiciary staff and factory inspectorate are ignored - Nepal - Women from the Badi community struggle to escape sex trade - Nigeria - a woman is arrested due to trafficking over 100 girls towards Libya with purposes of prostitution - Philippines - Sex trafficking of girls “on line” from now on - South Africa