Annual report 2013 SCELLES FOUNDATION Know, understand and fight sexual exploitation Content Message from the President • Message from the President • 1. Overview of the Foundation • 1.1 History of the Foundation • 1.2 Our convictions • 1.3 Our struggle and our objectives • 1.4 Our missions • 2. Structure of the Foundation • 2.1 The Board of Directors • 2.2 Employees • 2.3 Volunteers and trainees • 3. The actions undertaken by the Foundation in 2013 Scelles The year 2013 reflects the intense events that marked in France and abroad debates • 3.1 Action Plan and issues in the fight against sexual • 3.2 Conferences exploitation. • 3.3 Publications We have lived with the announcement of • major legislative initiatives to make more 3.4 Scelles Foundation Awards 2013 consistent and effective abolitionist position • 3.5 The websites of the Scelles Foundation of our country, and the proliferation of European and world reports illustrating the • 3.6 CRIDES extent of trafficking in human beings and • 3.7 External actions of members of the the risk of trivializing. Scelles Foundation But in 2013 it is mainly the year of decision • 3.8 Partnerships with NGOs and mobilizations in which the Scelles Foundation plays its full part, faithful to its • 3.9 Institutional Partnerships vocation by collecting as much indisputable • 3.10 External Communication data that can feed the thoughts of good will who, freely want to gather on common • 4. Financial resources of the Scelles Foundation goals without giving up their identity. • 4.1 Distribution of expenditures and Our Foundation has heard him resolutely in revenues in 2013 equity partnerships and free of any political or religious affiliation, but rooted in the • 4.2 2013 fund raising campaigns humanist tradition illustrated by its founders. • 5. 2014 Projects This report reflects the activity and this • 5.1 Governance state tireless mind that all stakeholders of • 5.2 Fund raising 2014 the Foundation and all their partners or our thanks because they are the ones that make • 5.3 Improvement of the CRIDES database our values and fighting continues to • 5.4 Design and development of World advance Report 4 Yves Charpenel • 5.5 Dissemination of public awareness Deputy First Procecutor brochure : "Clichés" at the Supreme Court • 5.6 Scelles Foundation’s Awards 2014 (2 nd edition) • 5.7 Strengthening local, national and international networks • 5.8 Scelles Foundation Anniversary (20 years) 2 1. Overview History of the Foundation Having launched the foundation with Jean Scelles, Philippe Scelles, his nephew, Scelles Foundation of public utility since succeeded him as president from 1996 to 1994, was created in 1993 by Jean and 2004. Jeanne Scelles who bequeathed all their goods. Jean Scelles resistant, imprisoned in 1941 in Algiers, discovers prostitution by a pimp cellmate. Philippe Scelles develops first engaged with the work of his uncle Jean, founder of the Foundation. At his death, he became president of the Foundation Scelles and gives it an international scale. Nicole Fontaine, former President of the European Parliament succeeded him from 2004 to 2005. Philippe Scelles resumes the 2005 Presidency 2010 He explains how to him how he "draws girls "Prostitution, human trafficking, sex and fixes stubborn." Just saved, Jean Scelles tourism, pornography, triggering outrage. promises, with his wife, to devote his life to It's unbearable drama of children and adults the defense of human dignity, fighting by in their bodies exploited for commercial raising awareness of public opinion, purposes. Our duty is to know, understand influence with political and punishment of and fight this terrible disease for the traffickers. The association he creates: the emergence of a world free of all these forms Teams Acting Against Procuring intervenes of commercial sexual exploitation." Philippe in the judgments where pimps are Scelles - 2008 convicted. In October 2010, Yves Charpenel , Deputy Without interruption since 1953, his First Procecutor at the Criminal Division of lawyers brought together in this association the Paris Supreme Court in turn takes the have filed more than 500 lawsuits against chair and continue the fight. pimps. "Our role is to contribute at least to place at "The traffickers, pimps and traffickers, the heart of social debates to come true matchmakers, mothers-madams, pimps and these" invisible victims "what are all those hotel owners and other forms exploitation and all those who today, in the world, and of prostitution, all have a responsibility as a are exploited and that can not be heard." slave-professionals. But they would have to Yves Charpenel - 2012 direct their activities differently if they were not in the service of "Her Majesty The Since then, the Foundation has grown Client" of prostitution. "Jean Scelles - 1974 steadily thanks to the dedication of a large number of staff and volunteers. 3 Overview The Scelles Foundation has become in 20 Overview year a reference player on all fronts in the fight against trafficking in human beings, in France and internationally. In 2013, in full agreement with all the associations met in the coalition Abolition 2012, she was mobilized on the following objectives: Values • To argue that the fight against trafficking Its members share the belief that every must be accompanied by a global struggle person should be able to live without against the system of prostitution, resorting to prostitution. • To request the necessary means of The Scelles Foundation believes that protection and integration for people in prostitution is a violation of human rights danger and in prostitution, to equality, dignity and a source of social • To question the issue of demand of clients and personal violence. of prostitution because they are principal actors of the system of violence supported Sexual exploitation is an abuse of by prostituted people, vulnerable people by economic vulnerability, poverty, gender inequality, • To argue with the recognition of racism, failure of the migration project, the prostitution as a work by refusing prostitution because rules of organization social and political instability in countries in would involve strengthening the vulnerabily conflict, physical and psychological violence of prostituted people. and social or family breakdown. • To get more allocated resources to the She believes that it is through education, fight against the exploitation of prevention, awareness, and repression of prostitution, particularly against pimping. actors exercising violence against prostitutes that a comprehensive policy can be conducted. Our missions Over 20 years The Foundation has pursued three main tasks : Objectives • Know the commercial sexual exploitation: The Scelles Foundation is driven by the To this end, it has established an desire to make the twenty-first century the observatory to collect any information progressive decline of sexual exploitation relating to the commercial sexual which is another form of modern slavery, exploitation in the world. This is a reference by : in Europe. • Constituting an evolutionary • Understanding the commercial sexual documentation center on all aspects of exploitation: trafficking for sexual exploitation. By a multidisciplinary cooperation, we • Building relationships privileged with receive and solicit work of experts (lawyers, sociologists, field officers associations) official bodies. publishing fact sheets, books and audio- • Joining the Foundation's efforts with visual materials. grassroots organizations. • Fight the commercial sexual exploitation. We do advocacy with local, national and • Contributing through awareness-raising European officials. and training to a greater awareness of public opinion 4 Organisation 2.1 The Board of Directors The Board of Directors is composed of : President : Honorary President : Vice President : General Secretary : Yves Charpenel, Philippe Scelles Yves Scelles, Hubert Roux, Deputy Prime HEC, CPA, former engineer engineer Procecuter to the head of business Supreme Court. companies Christian de Rolland Grosse, Claire Quidet, Patrick Rizzo, Mireille Segretain, Fenoyl, HEC, journalist, Attorney Inspector general of engineer. former sales Mouvement du national equipment director Nid Marta Scelles - Philippe Mettoux, Armelle Le Bigot Myriam Quemener Elda Carly, Torres, State Councillor President of ACPE Magistrate President of EACP lawyer (Lawers acting Against Pimping) 5 Organisation 2.2 Employees Operations of the Scelles Foundation are managed by 4 permanent employees, helped by trainees and volonteers. Permanents are : Catherine Goldmann Frédéric BOISARD, François VIGNAUD, Sandra AYAD, Responsible for webmaster and external relationships Head of CRIDES documentation community manager and fund raising in and editor of the France newsletter 2.3 Volunteers and interns In 2013, the Foundation has been helped by thirty volunteers (8 retired experts, 4 persons professional activity outside, 20 students). it also welcomed 10 French and foreign students, scholars in international relations, law, political science, anthropology, etc ...mainly to conduct research work. 6 3. The actions undertaken by the Scelles Foundation in 2013 A number of important actions were carried out in 2013 Develop the notoriety of the Scelles Foundation and thus its ability to weigh on national and international institutions, Produce the third World Report, new awards, documents and flyers for public awaress, Search for new sources of funding by both the capacity to stand in court and by