2022/2139(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

— having regard to the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children;

Amendment 100 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)

F c. whereas events such as international conflicts and economic hardship have a strong negative impact on human trafficking trends;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)

F d. whereas there is an asymmetry between national prostitution legislation within the EU (with countries where prostitution is legal and countries where it is illegal and where the demand for prostitution is criminalised);

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F d (new)

F d. whereas victims of human trafficking for prostitution are in large majority European nationals;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F e (new)

F e. Whereas according to Europol,1a in countries where prostitution is legal and regulated, sex work is likely to be influenced by the demand for cheap labour and in those countries it is much easier for traffickers to use a legal environment to exploit their victims; _________________ 1a Europol Situation Report: Trafficking in human beings in the EU', February 2016.

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F f (new)

F f. Whereas the report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on progress in the fight against trafficking in human beings1a identifies trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation as by far the most widespread form of trafficking in human beings in the EU; _________________ 1a REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Report on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings (2016)

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion and a migration background; whereas prostitution is inextricably linked to the denial of basic rights, to economic domination that condemns many countries to underdevelopment and widens the gap between rich and poor countries and, in both, compounds social injustices and inequalities, poverty and social exclusion, which each play a part in aggravating women's situation and status; whereas it is the poorest women and children who fall prey to sexual slavery and also to the grooming and entrapment webs in pimping networks;

Amendment 106 #

Maria NOICHL, Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Heléne FRITZON, Carina OHLSSON, Vera TAX, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Predrag Fred MATIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors can cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion ~~and a migration background;~~ , lack of comprehensive integration and migration policies and measures, as well as deficient social and labour policies; whereas these causes need to be urgently and thoroughly addressed in order to tackle the circumstances and restraints leading to a lack of alternatives;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion and a migration background and other social and economic preconditions it remains a matter of preference or of limited livelihood options for other people;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter ~~prostitution~~sex work, including poverty, social exclusion ~~and a migration background~~limited employment opportunities, discriminatory immigration laws and a lack of safe and legal migration opportunities;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion, structural violence faced by women and a migration background;

Amendment 11 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)

— having regard to the European Sex Workers Alliance policy brief entitled "Sex Work & Racism: Historical Overview of Racism in Anti-Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Immigration Legislation in Europe"

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas numerous factors cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion, drug-addiction and a migration background;

Amendment 111 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas prostitution as a social problem has an overwhelming impact on women, and thus requires specific measures to combat the causes of prostitution, such as criminalising those who exploit it and protecting prostituted women properly;

Amendment 112 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas protected groups, such as children, young people, persons living with mental and physical disabilities and persons belonging to minorities, are subject to cumulative exploitation in the form of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas we should take advantage of the opportunities offered by the free market economy, which promotes healthy competition and creates high growth and innovation, and in turn offers high- quality jobs as a viable option for those who want to leave;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas structural and intersectional discrimination cause people engage in sex work; whereas policies and laws with a punitive approach fail to address the root causes, stigma and discrimination faced by sex workers and neglect their needs;

Amendment 115 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas there is a need to create a definition of cumulative discrimination that includes the structural and institutional negative discrimination occurring throughout the Union, particularly in healthcare and law enforcement or judicial decision-making institutions, and whereas the definition should clearly contain, without taboos, those universal practical mechanisms for redress against breaches of rights that both women and men may experience as a result of negative stereotypes against their social, economic, cultural, religious, ethnic or gender identity, membership in a subculture and/or traditional dress, in benefit arrangements and/or decision- making processes;

Amendment 116 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas the right to work is an essential precondition if women are to enjoy effective equal rights, economic independence and professional fulfilment, and therefore insists that precarious employment should be eradicated through mandatory application of the principle that for every actual job there should be a permanent post, and by recognising and enhancing the right to work with rights;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

G b. whereas Ireland and New Zealand have similar populations but the amount of prostitutes working in Ireland is 5-8 times lower due to the introduction of the Nordic model;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)

Gc. whereas precariousness is a persistent feature of the EU labour market, which favours the accumulation of profit by big economic groups and primarily affects women, who suffer wage discrimination and are more likely to be in part-time work, and therefore earn lower wages and have less social protection and fewer opportunities for economic independence;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)

Gd. whereas in times of economic, social or health crises, many women in vulnerable situations are driven into poverty, social exclusion and prostitution as a result of the paucity of social responses;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 c (new)

— having regard to the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas ~~prostitution~~the disparity of legislation on prostitution and sex work in the EU has cross- border implications and affects women’s and minorities’ rights and gender equality; whereas ~~the disparity of legislation on prostitution in the EU benefits~~all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human traffick~~ers~~ing and organised crime ~~networks; whereas all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human trafficking and~~ ; whereas persons selling sex and sex work have been traditionally marginalised, it is important to have a human rights based approach, taking into account that being in vulnerable situation they are often not aware of their rights; whereas having an open dialogue and listen to the voices of persons selling sex is an imporgtan~~ised crime;~~ t part of the process, when legislating about them;

Amendment 121 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas prostitution has cross- border implications and affects women’s rights and gender equality; whereas the disparity of legislation on prostitution in the EU benefits traffickers and organised crime networks; whereas all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human trafficking and organised crime; whereas regarding sexual explotation, Member States shall ensure that the following intentional conduct is punishable as as a criminal offence: (a) procuring, hiring, or enticing another person for the purposes of prostitution; (b) obtaining any profit from the prostitution of another person;

Amendment 122 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas prostitution has cross- border implications and affects women’s rights and gender equality; whereas due to lack of collaborative governance and human rights impact assessment, the well- intended interventions that aim to prevent violence and exploitation in the sex industry fail; whereas the disparity of legislation on prostitution in the EU benefits traffickers and organised crime networks; whereas all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human trafficking and organised crime;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas prostitution has cross- border implications and affects women’s rights and gender equality; whereas in cross-border regions the systems should be coordinated to avoid hot spots in border regions; whereas the disparity of legislation on prostitution in the EU benefits traffickers and organised crime networks; whereas all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human trafficking and organised crime;

Amendment 124 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

Amendment 125 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas prostitution has cross- border implications and affects ~~women’s rights and gender equali~~victims' rights, integrity and safety; whereas the disparity of legislation on prostitution in the EU benefits traffickers and organised crime networks; whereas all Member States have a legal obligation to discourage and end human trafficking and organised crime;

Amendment 126 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas migrant, racialised and LGBTIQ+, especially trans, sex workers are disproportionately policed, profiled and criminalised; whereas disproportionate criminalization and restrictive migration policies leave migrant or racialized sex workers more vulnerable to violence, dependencies 1a exploitation and human trafficking; whereas greater criminalization often places women selling sex at risk of state and institutional violence _________________ 1a https://www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at/agen da/frauen-und- gleichstellung/prostitution.html

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas Europol reports establish that where prostitution is legal, trafficking in human beings and violence perpetrated against its victims and prostituted persons increases tenfold as perpetrators can hide behind legal structures, whereas the Nordic model is not a fix-all solution to reduce demand, sex trafficking, violence or exploitation;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. Whereas the pornography industry and online commercial exploitation of the explicit representation of non-simulated sexual practices have effects on on trivialising and perpetuating sexual violence against women and girls, the commodification of women’s bodies, the and harmful gender-stereotypes through prostitution;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas evidence from Sweden shows that street prostitution declined by half when the Nordic/Equality Model was implemented1a; whereas the demand for prostitution in Sweden fell from 13.6% to 7.9% from 1995 to 2008 as a result of the implementation of the Nordic/Equality Model1b; _________________ 1a Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, as cited in https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/worl d/swedish-prostitution-law-targets-buyers- but-some-say-it-hurts-sellers.html 1b Nordic Gender Institute, as cited in https://www.womenlobby.org/IMG/pdf/tar geting_the_sex_buyer.pdf

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 d (new)

— having regard to the Amnesty International international policy on state obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of sex workers

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas we cannot accept prostitution just like any other economic activity, since it is based on using people as consumer goods, which is a serious violation of their dignity and therefore is at odds with EU values;

Amendment 131 #

Maria NOICHL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Alessandra MORETTI, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Vera TAX, Carina OHLSSON, Heléne FRITZON, Pina PICIERNO, Radka MAXOVÁ, Evelyn REGNER, Predrag Fred MATIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas Russia’s war against Ukraine increases the risk of trafficking with Ukrainian women and girls who are in a particularly vulnerable situation while fleeing and relocating;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

H b. Whereas the "sugar daddysm" is an alarmant and even more bigger phenomenon in such places as universities but also in social netwotk and on line; where it consists in advertisements that encourages the prostitution of young female students by old rich men; whereas authorities have had to act to avoid the widespreade of this practice;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

H b. whereas demand reduction measures need a special focus on online advertisement and contact facilitation thus ensuring efficiency in the prevention of the exploitation of the prostitution of others;

Amendment 134 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas in places where prostitution has been legalised, an unscrupulous sex industry has flourished, legitimising even aggressive behaviour, and trafficking in human beings has increased;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

H b. whereas the fight against prostitution and trafficking can only be effective at saving women and girls when an approach which protects its victims and tackles the demand for prostitution is applied;

Amendment 136 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

H c. whereas Member States should promote prevention and rehabilitation programmes and broad, in-depth educational programmes against human trafficking and forced prostitution both in schools and in wider society and especially in the prostitute’s countr(ies) of origin; these programmes should include safe accommodation and secure care, adequate medical attention, psychological help (trauma therapy), education/training opportunities, support for reintegration into the wider economy, specialised help for women with addictions and specialised help for women with children;

Amendment 137 #

Maria NOICHL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)

H c. whereas regular training for enforcement authorities is urgently needed in every Member State to ensure people and especially women, including transwomen, in prostitution are not stigmatised or de-facto criminalised and their access to justice does not continue to be compromised by discriminatory stereotypes leading to refraining from reporting cases of abuse and violence due to the fear of institutions and authorities;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)

H d. whereas leaving prostitution is often a difficult and lengthy process and requires comprehensive socio-economic support and individual counselling taking into account the different pull and push factors in order to provide need-oriented support programs for people wanting to leave prostitution and making these programs a success for all of them;

Amendment 139 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)

H d. whereas adolescents should receive thorough education concerning the methods employed by pimps to initiate interactions so that they are more alert, vigilant and better informed about the Loverboy tactics, online contact initiation and subsequent entrapment;

Amendment 14 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 e (new)

— having regard to the Front Line Defenders report entitled “LGBTIQ+ and Sex Workers Rights Defenders at risk during COVID-19”

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)

H e. whereas prostitution is increasingly shifting into the virtual space, regardless of the legislation in force: whereas this relates not only to the recruitment and initiation “process”, but also to the way in which the sexual act itself takes place; whereas prostitution in the virtual space also has the same harmful effects on prostituted women as in the real world;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)

H e. whereas preventive measures need to follow a holistic approach, reforming society as a whole with a focus on social, labour and migration policies, reducing vulnerabilities and thus the susceptibility to exploitation or choices that have to be taken based on the lack of alternatives;

Amendment 142 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)

H f. whereas Ursula Von Der Leyen has previously stated that prostitution is not a profession like any other and that exit should always be the goal;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)

H f. whereas accurate and comparable data across EU countries are still lacking;

Amendment 144 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Recital H g (new)

H g. whereas according to some studies there is the potential to reduce HIV infections by 33–46% in the next decade if prostitution were to be decriminalised; whereas criminalised sex work leads to lower condom use which leads to higher cases of STIs including but not limited to, Genital Chlamydia, Gonorrhea infections, Pharyngeal and anal STI infections, as well as cases of syphilis infections;

Amendment 145 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H g (new)

H g. whereas every Member State’s regulation of prostitution must aim at ending human trafficking and organized crime, particularly focussing on the protection of people in vulnerable situations;

Amendment 146 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H h (new)

H h. whereas a report of the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation reveals that more than half of the human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation cases in Germany are prosecuted because of third-party reporting; whereas in conclusion the report states that victims of exploitation rarely identify themselves as such or refrain from reporting due to a lack of trust in authorities and the police;

Amendment 147 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Recital H h (new)

H h. whereas LGBTI prostitutes are subjected to discrimination and criminalisation as both LGBTI people and as prostitutes; whereas there is not equal access to preventative HIV medication, such as PREP and/or PEP drugs across the Union;

Amendment 148 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Recital H i (new)

H i. whereas the 2022 "Legal opinion on acts of Germany on prostitution and trafficking in human beings" by the ODIHR shows that the country’s legislation in place does not seem to include sufficient safeguards for persons in vulnerable situations engaged in prostitution, as well as those who are outside the system of registration, thus potentially undermining efforts to prevent trafficking; whereas one of the key demands resulting from this legal opinion is to introduce tools and measures that aim at reducing demand;

Amendment 149 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Recital H i (new)

H i. whereas the dual identities of LGBTI prostitutes have the potential to further marginalise individuals and render them more vulnerable to increased levels of violence, human rights’ abuses, and decreased access to services and justice;

Amendment 15 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

— having regard to the OHCHR Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H j (new)

H j. whereas new digital technologies and tools have increased securing the anonymity of traffickers, pimps and clients and therefore making law enforcement more difficult;

Amendment 151 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital H j (new)

H j. whereas poverty is the primary driving force behind women becoming prostitutes; whereas drug addiction is used as a means to lure and entrap victims into prostitution;

Amendment 152 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital H k (new)

H k. whereas access to health care services, including contraception is vital for prostitutes to maintain their health; recognises that in some Member States, such as Poland, access to such health care provisions has been severely restricted, causing undue stress and anxiety as well as adverse health effects for those who need it;

Amendment 153 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H k (new)

H k. whereas there is a need for specific examples and concrete definitions of force, coercion, exploitation of vulnerability, abuse of power or inequalities in existing prostitution laws and regulations in various EU Member States;

Amendment 154 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H l (new)

H l. whereas the 1949 UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others expresses in its preamble that prostitution and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of prostitution are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person;

Amendment 155 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H m (new)

H m. whereas prosecution bodies in the Netherlands estimate, that of the around 30.000 people in prostitution up to 70% of are considered to be forced into prostitution, by violence or lured into it by a so-called "loverboy";

Amendment 156 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H n (new)

H n. whereas OSCE research has shown that the use of prevention measures, aiming at reducing demand, remain low in general, but are highly concentrated in countries where buying sex is illegal or the use of services from trafficking victims is criminalized;

Amendment 157 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H o (new)

H o. whereas in the case of Germany by the end of 2021 23 700 people officially registered as people in prostitution while estimates vary between 90 000 and 400 000 people in prostitution in this country;

Amendment 158 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulating prostitution vary across the EU, since certain social norms may also shape negative attitudes and prejudice towards that activity, which impact legal practices in the area of decision-making as well as cases involving the receipt of various benefits, and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in general, gender equality, demand, society and neighbouring countries;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulating prostitution and sex work vary across the EU and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in generalthrough punitive administrative or criminal law of this system: people selling sex, the purchase of sex ,and third parties; stresses that the different laws have different effects on persons selling sex, their rights in general including the access to health, social services and justice system, women’s and minorities’ rights, gender equality, ~~dem~~and, society ~~and neighbouring countries;~~ .

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)

— having regard to the European Sex Workers Alliance policy brief entitled “Assesment of the impact of Covid 19 on Sex Worker’s access to health services in Europe and Central Asia”

Amendment 160 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulating ~~prostitution~~sex work vary across the EU and target three key components ~~of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights~~through punitive administrative or criminal law of this system: people selling sex, the purchase of sex, and third parties; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women selling sex and their rights, ability to access health care, social services and the justice system, women’s rights in general, gender equality, ~~dem~~and, society ~~and neighbouring countries~~;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulating prostitution vary across the EU and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in general, gender equality, demand, societyal attitudes and neighbouring ~~countries;~~ Member States, as well as the ability for women to reintegrate into society;

Amendment 162 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulating prostitution vary across the EU and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and ~~pimping~~involvement of exploitative third parties; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in general, gender equality, demand, society and neighbouring countries;

Amendment 163 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to regulat~~ing~~e prostitution vary across the EU and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in general, gender equality, demand, trafficking, society and neighbouring countries;

Amendment 164 #

Christine ANDERSON, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that approaches to ~~regulat~~addressing prostitution vary across the EU and target three key components of this system: prostituted persons, the purchase of sex (i.e. demand), and pimping; stresses that the different laws have different effects on women in prostitution, their rights, women’s rights in general, ~~gender~~ equality, demand, society and neighbouring countries;

Amendment 165 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Rejects the premise of an overly- simplified ideological battle that polarises the debate into two camps: it is important to evaluate all models with a realistic perspective to see which parts of each model work best; highlights that a simplified binary approach has the potential to overlook the advantages and disadvantages of the respective models which only serves to hinder those involved in prostitution;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. underlines that the differences between the regulation of prostitution in legislative frameworks of different member states contribute to the creation of a fertile operating ground for OCGs and individuals to traffic with purpose of sexual exploitation;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that prostitution does not fall within the competences of the European Union; notes that it is up to the sovereign Member States to address this matter;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that Member States should seek effective measures to reduce prostitution and thus trafficking in human beings;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets the lack of reliable, accurate and comparable data across countries necessary for global and critical analyses in order to provide to Member States all necessary tools to adopt or review policies that are ineffective to fight the human trafficking and organised crimes and have significant negative effects on people selling sex and their rights;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)

— having regard to the Front Line Defenders policy brief entitled “Sex Workers Rights Defenders at risk”

Amendment 170 #

Maria NOICHL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets the lack of reliable, accurate and comparable data across countries; urges the Member States and the EIGE to collect comparable data, disaggregated by sex, age, socio-economic class and nationality;

Amendment 171 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Regrets the lack~~Highlights the urgent need to further improve and better coordinate the collection and exchange of reliable, accurate and comparable data across EU countries and improve cross-border cooperation on the issue;

Amendment 172 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets the lack of reliable, accurate and comparable data across ~~countri~~some Member States apropos of trafficking, violence within forced prostitution, as well the success(es) of exit programmes;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Regrets that sex worker rights defenders and communities are targeted by hate speech and defamation campaigns by government officials or influential public personalities especially in countries that aim to criminalise sex work 1a _________________ 1a Front Line Defenders August 2021 “Sex Workers Rights Defenders at risk”

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

Reality ~~in prostitution~~for people selling sex

Amendment 175 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that women in prostitution experience more violence than women on average; refers to a 2019 study by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, according to which 41 % of the women in prostitution surveyed hapersons selling sex, especially women and LGBTIQ+ persons, who are exposed to repressive policing had a three times higher chance to experience more violence than women on average and are twice more likely to have HIV1a _________________ 1a as referred to by the meta-analysis by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) of 40 quantitative and 94 qualitative studies spanning a period of 28 yearsPlatt L, Grenfell P, Meiksin R, Elmes J, Sherman SG, Sanders T, Mwangi P, Crago AL. Associations between sex work laws and sex~~perienced physical or sexual violence (or both) in the context of prostitution;~~ workers’ health: a systematic review and meta- analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies. PLOS Medicine. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002680

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that women in prostitution experience more violence than women on average; refers to a 20193 study by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, according to which 41 % of the women in prostitution surveyed had experienced physical or sexual violence (or both) in the context of prostitution;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that women ~~in prostitution~~selling sex experience more violence than women on average; refers to a 2019 study by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, according to which 41 % of the women in prostitution surveyed had experienced physical or sexual violence (or both) in the context of ~~prostitution~~sex work;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes, that in Austria, the professional groups concerned including the executive, police, public authorities, medical services, counselling centres for sex service providers and the advocacy groups for sex service providers, agree that it is better to create a legal framework for sex workers, rather than to indulge in the illusion that it is possible to improve the situation of sex workers by criminalising the purchase of sex 1a _________________ 1a Report of the Austrian Government WG on prostitution, https://www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at/agen da/frauen-und- gleichstellung/prostitution.html)

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Underlines the findings of this study with regard to the experiences of women in prostitution with abuse in childhood and adolescence;~~deleted

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)

— having regard to the Amnesty International report entitled “We live within a violent system.” Structural violence against sex workers in Ireland;

Amendment 180 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Underlines the findings of this study with regard to the experiences of women in prostitution with abuse in childhood and adolescence;~~deleted

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines the findings of this study with regard to the experiences of women in prostitution with abuse in childhood and adolescence with 43% stating that they have experienced sexual abuse during their childhood and 52% reporting frequent or occasional physical punishment from their parents;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines the findings of this study with regard to the experiences of women in prostitution with abuse in childhood and adolescence; notes that it can lead to women and girls normalising abuse in prostitution;

Amendment 183 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Notes that women selling sex who had been exposed to repressive policing had a three times higher chance of experiencing sexual or physical violence by anyone and twice more likely to have HIV1a _________________ 1a Platt L, Grenfell P, Meiksin R, Elmes J, Sherman SG, Sanders T, Mwangi P, Crago AL. Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies. PLOS Medicine. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002680

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that consent can only be given freely when the~~re is no power imbalance between the people involved~~ people involved, people in prostitution as well as the buyers, are aware of their rights and obligations and are able to act upon these rights and obligations; nNotes, at the same time, that it can be extremely difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationship; further notes, that conflating sex work with sexual exploitation in all cases undermines the agency of people to make informed decisions about their private and sexual life;

Amendment 185 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that inherent element of agency is the capacity to give and withhold consent; notes that consent can only be given freely when there is no power imbalance between the people involved or if there is no use of threat, violence or coercion; notes, at the same time, ~~that~~even if it can be ~~extremely~~ difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, ~~and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationship~~conflating all sex work with sexual exploitation undertermines the agency of adult people to make informed and fully free decisions about their private and sexual life;

Amendment 186 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that consent can ~~only~~ be given freely when there is no power imbalance between the people involved; notes, at the same time, that it can be extremely difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationshipby consenting adults;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that consent can only be given freely when there is no power imbalance between the people involved; notes, at the same time, that it can be extremely difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationship; underlines in addition that the voice of women should always be listened to and recalls the need for informative, respectful programmes so that women in prostitution are abreast of their rights and obligations;

Amendment 188 #

5. Underlines that consent can only be given freely when there is no power imbalance between the people involved and that consent obtained through the giving or receiving of payments or benefits shall be irrelevant ; notes, at the same time, that it can be extremely difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationship;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that consent can only be given freely when given knowingly, of one's own free will and voluntarily, and when there is no power imbalance between the people involved; notes, at the same time, that it can be extremely difficult for people to realise that they are victims, especially when they do not know their rights, and recalls the dynamics of an abusive relationship;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6

— having regard to the Commission communication of 14 April 2021 on the EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings 2021-2025 (COM(2021)0171) and to Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA1 (the Anti- Trafficking Directive), _________________ 1 OJ L 101, 15.4.2011, p. 1.

Amendment 190 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 191 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Underlines that the inherent element of agency is the capacity to give or withhold consent; Notes that conflating sex work with sexual exploitation undermines the agency of people, especially women, to make informed decisions about their private and sexual lives;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the ~~COVID-19 pandemic~~governmental measures imposed upon a majority of European Member States in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including prostitution; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;

Amendment 193 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including ~~prostitution~~women resorting to prostitution in precarious situations; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including prostitution in violation of their human rights; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;

Amendment 195 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including ~~prostitution~~against sex workers; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;

Amendment 196 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including in prostitution; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Underlines that prostitution proved itself far too often to be susceptible to force majures such as the Covid -19 pandemic; highlights that furlough schemes in many Member States did not apply to women in prostitution, recalls the example of the Netherlands which - where the affected woman was registered with the national chamber of commerce - allowed women in prostitution to access necessary financial support;

Amendment 198 #

Maria NOICHL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Alessandra MORETTI, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Vera TAX, Carina OHLSSON, Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Heléne FRITZON, Evelyn REGNER, Predrag Fred MATIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. highlights the acute risk of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation Ukrainian women and girls face due to their vulnerable situation fleeing from Russia’s war against Ukraine and relocating in other countries;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Sresses that greater awareness is needed to better understand the increasingly shift of prostitution into the virtual space;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

— having regard to 2012 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2012/C 326/02);

Amendment 20 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

— having regard to CEDAW, General Recommendation No. 37, CEDAW/C/GC/37, 2018;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the European Parliament recognised, in its resolution of 26 February 2014 on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality, that prostitution and sexual exploitation are violations of human dignity, contravene human rights principles such as gender equality and are therefore contrary to the principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; recalls that it defined prostitution as a serious form of violence and exploitation in its resolution of 5 July 2022 on women’s poverty in Europe4 ; _________________ 4 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0274.deleted

Amendment 201 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the European Parliament recognised, in its resolution of 26 February 2014 on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality, that prostitution and sexual exploitation are violations of human dignity, contravene human rights principles such as gender equality and are therefore contrary to the principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; Notes that the resolution was adopted during the previous mandate and reflected the position of the European Parliament at that time; recalls that it defined prostitution as a serious form of violence and exploitation in its resolution of 5 July 2022 on women’s poverty in Europe4 ; _________________ 4 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0274.

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 203 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the European Parliament recognised, in its resolution of 26 February 2014 on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality, that prostitution and sexual exploitation are violations of human dignity, contravene human rights principles such as gender equality and are therefore contrary to the principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; ~~recall~~Notes that ~~it defined prostit~~the resolution was a ~~serious form of violence and exploitation in its resolution of 5 July 2022 on women’s poverty in Europe4 ; _________________ 4 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0274~~dopted during the previous mandate and reflected the position of the European Paliament at that time.

Amendment 204 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Underlines that the European Parliament called for, in its resolution on The EU Strategy for Gender Equality of 21 January 2021, a concrete framework for the rights and protection of sex workers during and after a crisis; further insists on the importance of including measures and strategies that tackle the discrimination faced by sex workers in access to funding, housing, healthcare, education and other services1a; _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2021)0025

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. highlights that technology facilitates the demand and the activities of human traffickers and pimps; in this context strongly regrets that the EU Digital Services Act does not particularly address human trafficking;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Points out that Article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union refers to 'equality between women and men',

Amendment 207 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3

Impact on ~~women in prostitution~~sex workers

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns the fact that women in prostitution lack legal security because of their criminalisation, meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their physical and mental health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, abusive and other non-law abiding clients, brothel owners and human traffickers often remain unpunished; calls on the relevant authorities within Member States to increase their efforts to end the impunity for those who commit forced prostitution;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns the fact that women ~~in prostitution lack legal security because of their criminalisation,~~selling sex, especially migrant, racialised and trans women and LGBTIQ+ people, lack legal security because of their disproportionate criminalisation, high levels of surveillance, the issuance of fines and house raids meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, ~~clients, brothel owner~~perpetrators posing as clients, exploitative third parties and human traffickers o~~ften remain unpunished~~perate with impunity;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to the Council of Europe Second General Report on GREVIO Activities of April 2021

Amendment 210 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns the fact that ~~women in prostitution~~people selling sex, especially women and LGBTIQ+ persons, lack legal security because of their disproportionate criminalisation, meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, ~~clients, brothel owner~~perpetrators posing as clients, exploitative third parties and human traffickers often remain unpunished;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns the fact that women in prostitution lack legal security because of their criminalisation, meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, including their mental health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, clients, brothel owners and human traffickers often remain unpunished;

Amendment 212 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns the fact that women in prostitution lack legal security because of their criminalisation, meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, offenders posing as clients, brothel owners and human traffickers often remain unpunished;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Condemn~~Notes the fact that women in prostitution ~~lack legal security because of their criminalis~~are in a delicate situation, meaning they may face ~~the constant threat of police and judicial persecution~~various threats, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, clients, brothel owners and human traffickers often remain unpunished;

Amendment 214 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses that the EU's migration policies for 'combating illegal immigration' follow a logic of criminalising the status of 'illegals' and repressing immigrants, and that those policies should be changed to favour social inclusion in host countries; stresses that those policies are adding to the vulnerability of and compounding the failure to protect undocumented migrant women victims of violence, who, for the most part, do not seek help; deplores the policy of militarising and externalising borders, which encourages illegal migration, heightening the risk of migrants falling into human trafficking and prostitution networks;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Condemns the fact that presumption of criminality and discriminatory treatment has the effect of preventing people selling sex, especially women and LGBTIQ+ persons, from seeking justice when they encounter physical or sexual violence or extortion for fear that they will instead become the focus of a criminal investigation or experience uncontrolled publicity and social pressure that can affect their private life and family;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Condemns the fact that presumption of criminality and discriminatory treatment has the effect of preventing women selling sex from seeking justice when they encounter physical or sexual violence or extortion for fear that they will instead become the focus of a criminal investigation1a _________________ 1a Council of Europe Gender Equality Commission, the impact of Covid-19 on women’s access to justice

Amendment 217 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Is concerned, that criminalization of solicitation, criminalization of customers and criminalization of exploitation of people selling sex in itself does not abolish prostitution or sex work, nor resolves the underlying root causes.

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Points out the negative consequences of the decriminalisation of ~~pimping and the purchase of sex~~exploitative third parties, which, through the ~~apparent~~ societal normalisation of these activities, leads to an increase in the trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and conceals the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostitution;, regrets the fact that even the legalisation of prostitution, ~~pimping~~third parties and the purchase of sex does not mean an end to the stigma for women in prostitution;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Points out the negative consequences of the decriminalisation of ~~pimping and the purchase of sex, which, through the apparent societal normalisation of these activities,~~sex work, which leads to an increase in the trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and conceals the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in enforced prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostitution; ~~regret~~underlines the fact that ~~even the legalisation of prostitution, p~~the push for crimpin~~g and the purchase of sex does not mean an end~~alisation contributes to the stigma for women ~~in prostitution~~and people selling sex;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

— having regard to the Council of Europe Gender Equality Commission's report of 17 November 2022 entitled, 'The Impact of Covid-19 on Women's Access to Justice';

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Points out the negative consequences of the decriminalisation of pimping and the purchase of~~Regrets the position of some of the States that all sex, which, through the apparent societal normalisation of these activities, leads to an increase in the trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and conceals the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostork is inherently exploitative, notes that investigating consensual adult sex work as crime, and treating persons selling sex as victims, takes precious resources away from dealing with real situations of exploitation and trafficking. Stresses that it also leads to human rights violations of persons selling sex who are detained and forced into ‘rehabilituation~~; regrets the fact that even the legalisation of prostitution, pimping and the purchase of sex does not mean an end to the stigma for women in pro~~’ programmes or if they dissent, they are deprived of custody of their children, migrant women are deported to their countries of origin, including those with regularised residence stiatu~~tion;~~s or EU citizens.

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Notes that prostitution is not an individual act of a person renting his or her body for money, rather it is a system organised for profit, a system that is intrinsically violent, discriminatory and deeply inhuman and that operates as a business and creates a market, where pimps plan and act to secure and increase their markets and where buyers of sex play a key role in boosting them;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Regrets the position of certain member states claiming that all sex work is inherently exploitative, notes that investigating consensual adult sex work as a crime and treating sex workers as victims, diverts resources away from dealing with genuine situations of exploitation and trafficking;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. underlines how individuals and OCGs are known for promptly increasing trafficking activities in countries where pimping and purchase of sex are decriminalised;

Amendment 224 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the fact that an increasing number of countries ~~are taking up and implementing the Nordic/Equality model;~~strive to achieve the Union of Equality by meaningful inclusion of discriminated and marginalised persons selling sex and provide subsidies to supports the ~~feminist background of this model and its goal of achieving gender equality, and highlights the model’s~~ir community based organisation to better address the needs and rights of the most marginalised people selling sex, including identification and referral of those exploited and trafficked. Is convinced that only human rights based strategies can help to achieve the real gender equality and have positive effects both on the rights of pe~~ople in prostitution and the fight against human trafficking;~~ rsons selling work than on the society itself;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note of the fact that an increasing number of countries are taking up and implementing the Nordic/Equality model; supports the ~~feminist background of this model~~overarching gender- specific objective of this model which seeks to reduce demand and its goal of achieving gender equality, and highlights the model’s positive effects on the rights of people in prostitution ~~and~~but that work and research is still needed to ensure that this model is effective in the fight against human trafficking;

Amendment 226 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Welcom~~Notes the fact that an increasing number of countries are taking up and implementing the ~~Nordic/Equality model; supports the feminist background~~ criminalisation model; points out the paternalistic approach of this model and it’s ~~goal of achieving gender equality, and~~harmful impact on women’s rights, especially the fundamental right to bodily integrity; highlights the model’s ~~posi~~negative effects on the rights of people ~~in prostitution~~selling sex1a and the fight against human trafficking; _________________ 1a We live within a violent system; Structural violence against sex workers in Ireland, Amnesty International

Amendment 227 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

Amendment 228 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Welcomes the fact that an increasing number of countries are taking up and implementing the Nordic/Equality model; supports the feminist background of this model and its goal of achieving gender equality, and highlights the model’s positive effects on the rights of people in prostitution and the fight against humMember States strive to achieve an inclusion of discriminated and marginalised people selling sex and provide subsidies to support their community based organisation to better address the needs and rights of the most marginalised, including identification and referral of those exploited and traffick~~ing;~~ed.

Amendment 229 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Calls on the Member States to train and educate the police in order to ensure that people in prostitution and the police communicate on a basis of trust and therefore are able to detect exploitation as fast and effective as possible; recalls that migrants, racialized and trans people are overrepresented in prostitution and condemns that they are especially targeted and criminalised by the police; calls for the same comprehensive training for the judiciary;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

— having regard the Council of Europe Second General Report on GREVIO Activities, April 2021;

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Demands practical policies that eliminate poverty and improve social protection, tackle school failure, promote education, including sex education, and equal opportunities and treatment, the establishment of inclusive policies that help to change the lives of women, young people and men, along with measures that condemn those who exploit this sordid, shameful and inhumane business.

Amendment 231 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is a severe violation of human rights, especially for migrant women, women from disadvantaged backgrounds or LGBTIQ+ persons; strongly condemns human trafficking for sexual exploitation of all people, including women, girls and vulnerable groups;

Amendment 232 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Welcomes the fact that several European countries strive to promote sex workers rights by meaningful inclusion of discriminated and marginalised sex workers and provide subsidies to support their community based organisation to better address the needs and rights of the most marginalised sex workers;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Recognises that legalising all facets of prostitution also has added value, such as the visibility of the women who are therefore safer and are not forced to continue their activities undergrounds;

Amendment 234 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Points out the importance of seeking the appropriate approach for each national context in order to achieve the right results based on the culture and laws that best protect its citizens;

Amendment 235 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria NOICHL, Evelyn REGNER, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. Condemns the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostitution;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. calls for an EU-wide approach based on the Nordic/Equality Model to finally use all promising instruments that have proven efficient to reduce human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation;

Amendment 237 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Acknowledges that different policies to combat sexual exploitation can have different effects in different Member States; Regrets the fact that regulations, including the legalisation or criminalisation of prostitution, the involvement of exploitative third parties and the purchase of sex does not mean an end to the stigma for women in prostitution;

Amendment 238 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)

10 d. Refrains from comments on the effectivity of individual regulatory models and their mutual comparison; underlines that the implementation of different models regarding the regulation of prostitution across Member States allows for the conclusion, that none of the regulatory models has achieved the complete elimination of stigmatisation and discriminatory treatment of people selling sex neither effective safeguards to ensure access to health, social and justice services for people selling sex;

Amendment 239 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation only exist because there is a demand for them; recognises that any service based economy works on the concept of supply and demand but that through the promotion of a strong, competitive and free market European economy fewer women will enter prostitution as a last resort to provide for their families;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)

— having regard to the report Sex Worker Rights Defenders At Risk, Front Line Defenders, August 2021h;

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that ~~prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation only exist because there is a demand for them;~~rights-based strategies to address demand should focus on addressing discriminatory attitudes, and beliefs for example through education of the youth and practices; particularly those directed against women, minorities and migrants.

Amendment 241 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation only exist because there is a demand for them therefore making the reduction of demand a key instrument for the prevention of human trafficking ;

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that prostitution and trafficking for sexual exploitation ~~only exi~~exist first and foremost because there is a demand for them;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that ~~prostitution and~~ trafficking for sexual exploitation ~~only exist because there is a demand for them~~exists in countries where third parties and purchase of sexual services is criminalised;

Amendment 244 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Highlights that the approach of discouraging the demand that fosters trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is therefore of utmost importance in order to combat the exploitation of women and girls, to protect victims and to achieve gender equality and should therefore be developed further in the revision of the EU Anti-Trafficking directive;

Amendment 245 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Points out that it is necessary to know all the causes behind the demand for prostitution such as the increasing trivialisation of sexual relations, addictions, and/or behavioural problems;

Amendment 246 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. whereas the demand for “sexual services” is universal and does not make a difference between voluntarily, forced, or trafficked people in prostitution; whereas it is therefore impossible to separate the discussion about prostitution and its potential regulation from the discussion around the fight against human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and the discussion about societal factors leading to a lack of alternatives for people in vulnerable situations to earn their lives and ultimately leading to prostitution;

Amendment 247 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. Notes that the “knowing use” approach of victims of trafficking has proven to be ineffective in order to reduce sexual exploitation due to the impossibility to prove a buyer’s knowledge; wants to raise awareness about the fact that clients who want to buy a “sexual service” inevitably, due to the high number of persons forced or lured into prostitution, de facto buy exploitation;

Amendment 248 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

— having regard to the Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims;

Amendment 250 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the decriminalisation of pimping and of the purchase of sex increases demand, empowers the demand side and normalises sex buying; underlines that the stigmatisation of people, especially women, in prostitution nevertheless persists; refers to studies showing that the normalization of buying women’s bodies goes hand in hand with a greater use of violence against women and a greater sense of entitlement towards women in prostitution and women in general;

Amendment 252 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that the decriminalisation of pimping and of the purchase of sex increases demand, empowers the demand side and normalises sex buying; underlines that the stigmatisation of people, especially women, in prostitution nevertheless persists; notes that only if demand is reduced can the prostitution market shrink and thus the number of those exploited in it;

Amendment 253 #

Christine ANDERSON, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Notes that narrow understanding of demand reduction that is instrumentalized by criminalising purchase of sex and criminalization of pimping is ignoring the structural and systemic discrimination against women and LGBTIQ+ persons permeating all aspects of their life, including in the context of migration;

Amendment 255 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Notes that the narrow understanding of demand reduction that is instrumentalized in the criminalisation of the purchase of sex and third parties, further exacerbates structural and systemic discrimination against women;

Amendment 256 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Underlines the importance of discouraging demand in a way that does not harm or create negative repercussions for those in prostitution and provide sufficient safeguards;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Stresses that the legalisation of selling sex (as is the case in the Nordic model) is the only way prostitutes can build trust in law enforcement and other help services;

Amendment 258 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Condemns that anti-trafficking police raids and rescue operations are more often than not used for immigration enforcement purposes and result in migrant persons selling sex being evicted from their homes, detained and deported as the selling of sex is grounds for deportation and denial of entry for people coming outside the EU;

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Calls for demand reduction measures with a special focus on online advertisement and contact facilitation, ensuring efficient measures to prevent the exploitation of the prostitution of others;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

— having regard the report of UNAIDS, COVID-19 responses must uphold and protect the human rights of sex workers, 24 April 2020;

Amendment 260 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Notes that rights-based strategies to address demand should focus on addressing discriminatory attitudes and beliefs; particularly those directed against women and migrants1a _________________ 1a OHCHR Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, 2010

Amendment 261 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12 c. Regrets the broad interpretation of the third-party legislation whereby all assistance in the sale of sex is prohibited even if it is not for profit, within which people selling sex together, landlords, hotel owners, accountants and others, can be accused of pimping if they are associated with the sale of sex;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12 c. Calls for demand reduction measures with a special focus on online advertisement and contact facilitation, ensuring efficient measures to prevent the exploitation of the prostitution of others;

Amendment 263 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Is concerned that the legalisation of prostitution promotes legal structures behind which traffickers can hide;~~deleted

Amendment 264 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned that the legalisation of prostitution promotes legal structures behind which traffickers can hide making it difficult for police and law enforcement bodies to combat trafficking in human beings effectively; stresses in this regard the Europol SOCTA 2021 highlighting that exploiters increasingly seek to exploit their victims in the context of supposedly voluntary business agreements and that this type of exploitation is particularly common in jurisdictions where prostitution has been legalised;

Amendment 265 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned that the legalisation of prostitution promotes legal structures behind which traffickers can hide; therefore calls on the Member States to ensure that existing legislation and regulations are properly assessed so as to avoid any loopholes which allow criminals to act with impunity;

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned that the legalislation ofn prostitution ~~promotes legal structures behind which traffickers can hide~~and sex work often compromises safety of people selling sex, leads them to work in more hidden and isolated areas and compromise their ability to organise and to effectively address exploitation in sex industry;

Amendment 267 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Is concerned that the ~~leg~~criminalisation of ~~prostitution~~sex work promotes ~~legal~~opaque structures behind which traffickers can hide;

Amendment 268 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Notes that legalisation/regulation seeks to legitimise an extreme expression of exploitation, oppression and violence and to transform prostitution into a legal activity for those who exploit it, i.e. the pimps becoming 'entrepreneurs'; stresses that the legalisation/regulation of prostitution does not protect prostituted women, but, on the contrary, provides legal cover for sordid exploitation, for the connected increases in trafficking in human beings and for money laundering linked to other criminal forms of trafficking;

Amendment 269 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Draws attention to the recent findings indicating that traffickers are increasingly seeking to exploit victims through 'supposedly voluntary business arrangements', where victims must hand over a share of the earnings in exchange for protection and support; notes that this type of exploitation is particularly common in jurisdictions where prostitution has been legalised1a; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/695394/IPOL_STU(20 21)695394_EN.pdf

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)

— having regard Council of Europe, Gender Equality Commission: Study on the impact of Covid-19 on women’s access to justice;

Amendment 270 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Is concerned that the criminalisation of any element of sex work often compromises safety of people selling sex, leads them to work in more hidden and isolated areas and compromises their ability to organise and to effectively address exploitation in sex industry;

Amendment 271 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. underlines that legalization of prostitution not only contributes to the rise of human trafficking but also that of connected crimes such as money- laundering and tax evasion;

Amendment 272 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is increasing due to high demand; points out that this is particularly visible in countries with a liberal regulatory model, whereas countries that follow approaches like the Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;

Amendment 273 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 274 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is i~~ncreasing due to high demand~~s a gross violation of human rights and comprises a significant risk, especially for migrant women, women from disadvantaged backgrounds, trans women, LGBTIQ+ people and other marginalised groups; points out that thisere is ~~particularly visible i~~no discernable difference between countries with a liberal regulatory model~~, whereas~~ and countries that follow approaches like the ~~Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;~~ criminalisation model1a; _________________ 1a The Rise of Neo-Abolitionism in Europe: Exploring the role of the Neoliberalism–Vulnerability–Security Nexus in the Prostitution Policies of the United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Ireland

Amendment 275 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, including that of minors, is increasing due to high demand; points out that this is particularly visible in countries with a liberal regulatory model, whereas countries that follow approaches like the Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;

Amendment 276 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is increasing due to high demand; points out that this is particularly visible in countries with a liberal regulatory model, whereas ~~countries~~in some Member States such as Ireland that follow approaches like the Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;

Amendment 277 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Stress~~Notes that ~~human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is inc~~people selling sex are warning about the dramatic consequences of penalising clients and repreassing due to high demand; points out that this is particularly visible in countries with a liberal regulatory model, whereas countries that follow approaches like the Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;ve policies against them in some Member States, denouncing that this legislation makes them more precarious, unprotected, weakens them and exposes them to violence and high risks to their health.

Amendment 278 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses that tackling human trafficking and tackling poverty and social exclusion are inextricably linked, the key aspects of which are: economic development, enhanced status of work and workers, higher wages and pensions, fairer distribution of wealth, and the development of a robust public social security system, a public, universal and free-of-charge national health system, and public schools that ensure all enjoy equal rights and opportunities;

Amendment 279 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Condemns that laws and policies to combat trafficking in persons are often used to identify, detain and deport undocumented migrants without providing them with either assistance or compensation1a and result in migrant sex workers being evicted from their homes, detained and deported as the selling of sex is grounds for deportation and denial of entry for people coming outside the EU _________________ 1a Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales A/73/178/Rev.1 (para 70)

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)

— having regard the UN Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2025;

Amendment 280 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Stresses that in a decision released on April 12, the European Court of Human Rights accepted to consider the complaints from 261 sex workers from France, who want the French law to be recognized for infringing their fundamental rights especially the right to health and safety and the right to respect for private life.

Amendment 281 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Underlines that the greater the asymmetry between national prostitution legislation within the EU, the more victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation there are; notes that some countries of the Union may attract more trafficking flows for the purposes of sexual exploitation;

Amendment 282 #

Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses the importance of addressing each national situation with regard to trafficking for sexual exploitation without exclusively considering models from other countries that may not suit the internal solutions of each Member State;

Amendment 283 #

14 a. Stresses the need to tackle forced prostitution in the EU’s occupied territories, and calls on the Commission to address this issue with immediate effect;

Amendment 284 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Rejects the attempt to glamorise prostitution using terms such as 'sex workers' or 'sex work' that disguise the inherent violence and exploitation involved; emphasises the fact that prostitution is neither a job nor a career opportunity;

Amendment 285 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the different approaches to regulation in the EU have different effects and that women in prostitution have different rights and levels of protections in different EU Member States; underlines that, according to the European Women’s Lobby, on average, 70 % of the individuals in prostitution in the EU are migrant women and that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation mostly affects women and girls coming from the east of the European Union; underlines the case of Germany where the majority is of Romanian, Bulgarian or Hungarian origin reflecting the social and economic differences in the EU and only 1/5 of the registered people in prostitution have the German citizenship; underlines that most of the people, especially women, in prostitution (78%) are between 21 and 44 years old;

Amendment 286 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the different approaches to regulation in the EU have different effects and that ~~women in prostitution~~persons selling sex have different rights and protections in different EU Member States; stresses that while the competence to regulate prostitution and sex work remains in the competence of the EU Member States, people selling sex must be able to enjoy the rights enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; underlines that, on average, 70 % of the ~~individuals in prostitution~~persons selling sex in the EU are migrant women and that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation mostly affects women and girls coming from the east of the European Union;

Amendment 287 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the different approaches to regulation in the EU have different effects and that women ~~in prostitution~~selling sex have different rights and protections in different EU Member States; underlines that, on average, 70 % of the individuals in prostitution in the EU are migrant women and that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation mostly affects women and girls coming from the east of the European Uniostresses that while the competence to govern sex work remains with the Member States, people selling sex must be able to enjoy the rights enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; underlines that, on average, 70 % of the people in the sex trade in the EU are migrant women;

Amendment 288 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes that the different approaches to regulation in the EU have different effects and that women in prostitution have different rights and protections in different EU Member States; underlines that, on average, 70 % of the individuals in prostitution in the EU are migrant women and that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation mostly affects women and girls ~~coming from the east of the European Union~~;

Amendment 289 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Emphasises that the majority of sex trafficking flows within the Union involve EU citizens; recalls that 53% of the victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation within the Union had EU citizenship1a; recalls that in one study it was found that 73.6% of individuals who used foreign prostitutes had a medium/high probability of having entered into contact with a victim of sex trafficking1b; stresses that the evidence shows that men are aware of the signs of trafficking that they observe, including scant knowledge of the local language or visible signs of abuse1c; highlights that the research shows that individuals employ “neutralization techniques” aimed at denying the existence of trafficking1d ; _________________ 1a https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/695394/IPOL_STU(20 21)695394_EN.pdf 1b https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/695394/IPOL_STU(20 21)695394_EN.pdf 1c https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/695394/IPOL_STU(20 21)695394_EN.pdf 1d https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/ etudes/STUD/2021/695394/IPOL_STU(20 21)695394_EN.pdf

Amendment 29 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 d (new)

— having regard to CEDAW, General Recommendation on women’s access to justice, at 4, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/GC/33 (2015);

Amendment 290 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Recalls that women in the LGB and Transgender communities, including prostitutes themselves must be meaningfully involved and included in the development of national prostitution policies and wider European discussions;

Amendment 291 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. notes that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation mostly affects migrant women, especially women and girls coming from the east of the European Union and Sub-Saharan Africa;

Amendment 292 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Recalls that the prostitution market and its actors operate across borders; Stresses that the divergent rules mean that some EU Member States have more victims of trafficking in human beings than others ~~and that free movement within the EU helps to move people from one market to the next~~; calls Member States and the Commission to coordinate a pan- European approach and equal standards and possibilities of prosecution for those involved in prosecution;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses that ~~the divergent rules mean that~~ some EU Member States have more victims of trafficking in human beings than others ~~and that free movement within the EU helps to move people from one market to the next~~;

Amendment 294 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Highlights, that criminal networks engaged in human trafficking, and similar activities, which provides human labour for hard tasks including but not limited to agriculture, extraction, sex work, manufacturing and other areas, are often international in nature, and cannot effectively be addressed by individual member states.

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Calls for measures on EU level in order to effectively tackle the cross-border implications of prostitution;

Amendment 296 #

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7

Impact on gender equality ~~and~~, women’s and sexual minorities` rights

Amendment 297 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Emphasises that women in all their diversity have amongst others the fundamental rights to physical and mental integrity, respect for private life and family and to choose an occupation and to engage in work;

Amendment 298 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16 b. Underlines that debates around sex work have historically served as a central site on which to exert control over women, their bodies and their choices;

Amendment 299 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises that the gender-specific nature of prostitution reflects and replicates the prevailing power relations; stresses that prostitution and sexual exploitation are both a cause and a consequence of the unequal treatment of women and men and replicate and perpetuate stereotypes about women and men; Stresses that deeply rooted gender stereotypes related to women’s sexuality and morality, combined with gaps in legislation and its implementation, render women selling sex subject to frequent criminal sanctions even in countries where prostitution is legalised;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)

— having regard to the 2000 Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation;

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 e (new)

— having regard to the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-268/99: Aldona Malgorzata Jany and Others v Staatssecretaris van Justitie. 20th November 2001.

Amendment 300 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises that the gender-specific nature of ~~prostitution~~exploitation both within and outside of the job market reflects and replicates the prevailing power relations; stresses that ~~prostitution and~~intersectional discrimination further exacerbates this power imbalance; underlines that sexual exploitation ~~are both~~in particular is a cause and a consequence of racism, ableism, classism and the unequal treatment of women and men and replicates and perpetuates stereotypes about women ~~and men~~, men, other genders and marginalised groups in general;

Amendment 301 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises that the gender-specific nature of prostitution reflects and replicates the prevailing power relations; stresses that the majority of sex workers are women which widens the inequality gap between the genders and that prostitution and sexual exploitation are both a cause and a consequence of the unequal treatment of women and men and replicate and perpetuate stereotypes about women and men;

Amendment 302 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises that the gender- specific nature of prostitution reflects and replicates the prevailing power relations; stresses that prostitution and sexual exploitation are both a cause and a consequence of the unequal treatment of women and men and replicate and perpetuate stereotypes about women and menprostitution and sexual exploitation are both a cause and a consequence of profound disregard for intrinsic human dignity and integrity, which leads to perceiving the human body as mere entertainment object and disposable good which can be traded for money;

Amendment 303 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Stresses that, as pointed out by Europol,1a in countries where prostitution and the purchase of sexual services are decriminalised, there is no preclusion or limitation of the different forms of exploitation of women and children and there is no reduction in illegal activities by individuals and OCGs operating in European and non-European contexts; _________________ 1a Europol Situation Report: Trafficking in human beings in the EU', February 2016.

Amendment 304 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Calls on EIGE to put together an analysis of how AI could serve to protect prostitutes from vulnerable and potentially dangerous situations; highlights the need for privacy for all parties when in compliance of the law but underlines as well that when used efficiently AI can both protect peoples’ identities and create a safe, managed place in which women can operate;

Amendment 305 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Stresses the importance of not explaining the problems related to prostitution and sexual exploitation through theories that have no scientific basis and which may in turn generate new stereotypes where men are prejudged as the presumed aggressors or sole seekers of these services;

Amendment 306 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Emphasises that deeply rooted gender stereotypes related to women’s sexuality and morality, combined with gaps in legislation and its implementation, render women selling sex subject to frequent criminal sanctions even in countries where sex work is legalised1a _________________ 1a Council of Europe Gender Equality Commission, the impact of Covid-19 on women’s access to justice

Amendment 307 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Recognises that prostitution is linked to structural violence to which women are disproportionally exposed and that often creates precarious life situations that drive women and girls into prostitution; underlines as well that prostitution is difficult to escape from;

Amendment 308 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17 b. Calls on Member States to promote STEM learning so that girls can play an active role in in developing technology for women’s needs;

Amendment 309 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses the different effects of different regulatory measures on men, young people and society as a whole; highlights that there appears to have been a significant and positive shift in attitudes among boys and men in Sweden after the introduction of the Nordic model, whereby women are seen less as objects to satisfy man’s sexual desire but instead as victims of exploitation; whereby this dissuades them from purchasing sex;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 f (new)

— having regard to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights request no. 63664/9 in case M.A. and 256 others against France. 12th April 2021.

Amendment 310 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses the different effects of different regulatory measures on men, young people and society as a whole; points out that the human rights of women and girls are systematically breached in the sex industry, including prostitution, particularly their right to dignity; points out that those rights are inalienable;

Amendment 311 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses the different effects of different regulatory measures on men, young people and society as a whole; stresses that the normalization of prostitution has a negative impact on young people's perceptions and expectations of sexuality and the relations between women and men and their understanding of gender equality;

Amendment 312 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses the different effects of ~~different regulatory measures~~gender stereotypes and inequality on men, young people and society as a whole;

Amendment 313 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Highlights the results of an US- study made on the opinions of clients of prostitution in different countries; highlights that 55% of German sex buyers interviewed for this study admitted to having observed or paid a pimp or trafficker when buying, and 39% of German sex buyers interviewed felt entitled to do whatever they wanted to a woman in prostitution after paying for her;

Amendment 314 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Emphasises that sexuality education is an essential measure in working towards a violence-free society as it challenges harmful gender stereotypes, promotes diversity, bodily autonomy, and physical and mental integrity; Notes that sexuality education sheds light on the social taboo of sexuality and addresses it as an integral part of our lives related to our health and well-being;

Amendment 315 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Emphasises that exploitation in prostitution must be fully acknowledged as a breach of fundamental rights, because it is an extreme form of violence and oppression against prostituted women that represents an attack on the dignity and rights of all women;

Amendment 316 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18 b. Condemns the negative effects of certain types of pornography, reproducing harmful stereotypes and altering the perceptions about relationships and sexuality and thus hampering gender equality;

Amendment 317 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines the Member States’ obligation to protect women’s rights and physical integrity and promote gender equality, and highlights the EU’s role in doing this within the international community and in creating equal protection and equal rights across Member States; calls on all remaining Member States to ratify the Istanbul convention as soon as possible;

Amendment 318 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines the Member States’ obligation to protect women’s rights and physical integrity and promote gender equality and diversity, and highlights the EU’s role in doing this within the international community and in creating equal protection and equal rights across Member States;

Amendment 319 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines the Member States’ legal obligation to protect women’s rights and physical integrity and promote gender equality, and highlights the EU’s role in doing this within the international community and in creating equal protection and equal rights across Member States;

Amendment 32 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas all people have a right to make decisions governing their bodies, free from discrimination, coercion and violence

Amendment 320 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure adequate provision of contraception as a means of preventing sexually transmitted infections as well as unwanted pregnancies for prostitutes; calls particularly on the government of Poland to ease the restrictions of contraception, especially emergency contraception;

Amendment 321 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Stresses that neoliberal policies make women more vulnerable, both collectively and individually, leading to greater exploitation and to poverty and marginalisation, a situation which is also fuelling the trafficking of women and prostitution;

Amendment 322 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19 a. Highlights the fact that only the decriminalisation of sex work and the adoption of a human rights based approach can help people selling sex to have full access to their fundamental rights;

Amendment 323 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19b. Notes that the current economic situation contributes to harassment, violence of all kinds, and prostitution, with women as the victims, in breach of human rights; stresses the need to increase public, financial and human resources in order to support groups at risk of poverty and tackle situations posing a risk to children and young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and the homeless;

Amendment 324 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19 b. Urges all Member States to decriminalise the consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for remuneration, including the decriminalisation of clients and third parties.

Amendment 325 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)

19 c. Urges the Commission, together with Member States and sex worker-led community groups to establish a concrete framework for the rights and protection of sex workers; further insists on the importance of including measures and strategies that tackle the discrimination faced by sex workers in access to funding, housing, healthcare, education and other services

Amendment 326 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)

19c. Recognises the role and work of social organisations that support prostituted women and defend women's rights; calls on the Member States to support and cooperate with those organisations;

Amendment 327 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)

19 d. Calls on Member States to ensure the right to quality, accessible and affordable essential services through a rights-based approach, including: free/affordable, universal and quality healthcare, including mental, early, long- term, reproductive and dental care; universal, quality, affordable, accessible and inclusive public education; affordable social housing; green, affordable and accessible public transport; affordable and clean energy rather than pursuing criminalisation;

Amendment 328 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 e (new)

19 e. Calls on the EU institutions to ensure visible support for sex worker rights defenders acknowledging the critical work they carry out in defending the basic human rights of communities that are among the most marginalised1a; _________________ 1a Front Line Defenders August 2021 “Sex Workers Rights Defenders at risk”

Amendment 329 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 f (new)

19 f. Calls on the Commission to implement gender budgeting throughout all the instruments of the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027, including the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values, the ESF+ and the structural and cohesion funds and using such funds to ensure access to essential services such as housing, healthcare and education, as well as pathways out of exploitative labour, especially for the most marginalised groups, including sex workers;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)

-A a. Whereas “prostitution” “sexual exploitation” and “trafficking” are often conflated despite the fact that they are distinctly different phenomena; whereas human trafficking ia an egregious human rights violations; whereas there is no internationally agreed definition for sexual exploitation; whereas so called prostitution refers to the act of the exchange of money for sexual services between two consenting adults;

Amendment 330 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 g (new)

19 g. Calls for the Commission to ensure that funding from the Citizens, Rights, Equality and Values programme is accessible for the whole of civil society including community and grassroots groups run by and for sex workers, especially those currently employed within the industry;

Amendment 331 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration; notes that prostituted women should not be criminalised, persecuted or stigmatised; emphasises that the way forward is to adopt support measures that help women leave prostitution and build a life with decent conditions;

Amendment 332 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of ~~prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes~~all forms of exploitative labour; calls on the Member States to ~~reduce demand while~~ protect~~ing~~ women and their rights, to end the criminalisation of sex work and stigmatisation of people ~~in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and~~selling sex and to ensure unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration;

Amendment 333 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people ~~in prostitution,~~and especially women in prostitution, sufficiently financed, easily accessible, high quality and human rights based exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people and especially women in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration;

Amendment 334 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

Amendment 335 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Alessandra MORETTI, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, ~~punishment of clients,~~ destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration;

Amendment 336 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients~~, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes~~; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting ~~women~~victims of prostitution and sex trafficking and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration;

Amendment 337 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Stresses the need for exit programmes to facilitate, where possible, women’s access to training, jobs and credit from, for example, women venture capitalists, business angels and investors; underlines the need for women role models, founders and owners of private companies and start-ups to help support former and practicing prostitutes realise their entrepreneurial potential;

Amendment 338 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Highlights that the European Court of Justice has ruled1a that the activity of sex work pursued in a self- employed capacity can be regarded as a service provided for remuneration and therefore persons selling sex can work legally in any European Union country as long as they are self-employed and sex work is tolerated there. _________________ 1a CJUE, 20 Nov 2001, C-268/99,Aldona Malgorzata Jany and Others

Amendment 339 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Calls on Member States to develop information and awareness raising campaigns highlighting the importance of consent and the responsibility of clients to respect sex workers' consent and right to decent working conditions including freedom from violence;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation ~~are increasing~~continue to increase in Europe; whereas figures globally decreased due to the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns; whereas human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation was the most common form of human trafficking in the EU in 2020 (55%, Eurostat) and the victims are predominantly women and girls; whereas they are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and a~~lmost all sex~~nd buyers being ~~men;~~ overwhelmingly men according to the OSCE;

Amendment 340 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20 b. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people selling sex, exit programmes, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to ensure a better protection of women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people selling sex and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration; Calls on the Member States to ensure that people selling sex are involved in policy making concerning their lives and rights;

Amendment 341 #

20 b. Urges Member States to introduce rehabilitation programmes that include safe accommodation and secure care, medical help, psychological help (trauma therapy), specialised help for women with addictions and specialised help for women with children;

Amendment 342 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)

20 c. Calls for adequate protections for LGBTI prostitutes who have reported facing discrimination, humiliation and denial of services from healthcare workers, either based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, or any combination of these; recalls that the denial of services based on the grounds of their sexual orientation is a breach of the European charter of fundamental rights; calls for better access to PREP and PEP medication as well as awareness about when and where they are available;

Amendment 343 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)

20 c. Calls on Member States to commit necessary resources to social programmes designed to address and mitigate the root causes of prostitution and sex work by strengthening medical, financial, legal, employment and traning support for persons selling sex and vulnerable people, and to commit resources to provide support for victims of domestic and sexual violence and support reception centres;

Amendment 344 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)

20 d. Calls on Member States to ensure proper training of staff at all levels and especially in enforcement, judicial and other legal services, to support and guarantee the rights of those in prostitution and persons selling sex without prejudice to stigma typically associated with sex work;

Amendment 345 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 e (new)

20 e. Calls on Members States to undertake awareness initiatives aimed to let people selling sex know of their rights regardless of legal status and access to alternatives to sex work. Observes that any programmes must be based on a holistic approach including metal health and health services, housing support, education, training and employment services.

Amendment 346 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

Amendment 347 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

Amendment 348 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Member States to ensure that it is punishable as a criminal offence to solicit, accept or obtain a sexual act from a person in exchange for remuneration, the promise of remuneration, the provision of a benefit in kind or the promise of such a benefit; calls on Member States to consider how to avoid proliferation of advertisements that encourages the prostitution of young female students by old rich men, also know as "sugar daddysm";

Amendment 349 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Member States to ensure that it is punishable as a criminal offence to solicit~~, accept~~ or obtain a sexual act from a person in exchange for remuneration, the promise of remuneration, the provision of a benefit in kind or the promise of such a benefit;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are increasing; whereas they are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and almost all sex buyers being men; whereas prostitution is not only harmful for women on prostitution but also a school of inequality for all women and girls; whereas prositution harms all women and digital world, if unregulated, will make them even more vulnerable;

Amendment 350 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on the Member States to ensure that it is punishable as a criminal offence to ~~solicit, accept or obtain~~force a person to a sexual act ~~from a perso~~even in exchange for remuneration, the promise of remuneration, the provision of a benefit in kind or the promise of such a benefit;

Amendment 351 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Stresses regulation EU 679/2016’s rules on use and sharing of personal data beyond the scope for which personal data is collected, and underlines that data collected from victims seeking support may not be passed to other authorities except on the legal basis of the data subject’s express consent. Takes note, that illegal sharing of personal data may have severe consequences for the data subject and should be considered under EU679/2016 article 83(5).

Amendment 352 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Recommends to the Member States that they take urgent measures to prohibit advertisements on social media which directly or indirectly encourage prostitution or seek to attract clients for prostitution;

Amendment 353 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that it is punishable as a criminal offence to exploit the prostitution of another person even with the consent of that person;

Amendment 354 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Member States to take measures to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution so that women in situations of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and migration do not fall victim to this form of exploadopt a strategy of collaborative governance with sex worker advocacy organizations to attain an effective and humane prostitaution policy;

Amendment 355 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Member States to take measures to combat the ~~economic, social and cultur~~structural, economic and social causes of p~~rostitution~~overty, so that women in situations of ~~poverty,~~ social exclusion, discrimination and migration do not fall victim to ~~this form of~~ exploitation;

Amendment 356 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the Member States to tackle all kinds of insecure working conditions, in accordance with the principle that permanent employment contracts should be provided for permanent jobs, in order to improve social protection during unemployment and tackle growing poverty, particularly among women;

Amendment 357 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Calls on the Member States to ensure, among other aspects, that women and girls in prostitution have equal access to justice, healthcare, housing, employment, public services and enjoy equal protection under the law;

Amendment 358 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls for specific measures to assist women in prostitution with their social and professional reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this; notes that the majority of women would like to give up prostitution and that, therefore, effort should be made to promote the adoption of exit programmes so that women who wish to do so have the confidence and state support to build a life free from violence;

Amendment 359 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls ~~for specific measures to assist~~on Member States to implement specific measures and to provide sufficient financial support to assist people and especially women in prostitution with their social and professional reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this, with a special focus on people with migration background;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are increasing; whereas they are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and almost all sex buyers being men; whereas these phenomena are therefore both a cause and a consequence of gender inequalities;

Amendment 360 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls for specific measures to assist women ~~in prostitution~~and LGBTIQ+ persons selling sex with their social and professional reintegration if they wish so; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for pe~~ople~~rson’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this;

Amendment 361 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls on the Member States for specific measures to assist women in prostitution with their social and professional reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this;

Amendment 362 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Calls for specific measures to assist women ~~in prostitution~~selling sex with their social and professional ~~reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually,~~inclusion; calls for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this;

Amendment 363 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Urges the Member States to provide public social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, offering psychological and social support and staffed by specialised professionals, and to implement social policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, specifically by guaranteeing them jobs which will effectively result in their social inclusion;

Amendment 364 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Recalls the highly successful RUPS exit programme in the Netherlands where any prostitute can go to for help, guidance and support irrespective of whether they work in a sex club, via the internet, in the street or in any other way;

Amendment 365 #

Maria NOICHL, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Alessandra MORETTI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Calls on the Commission to include information about the legal status of sex work on the "Your Europe" website to facilitate the safe and free movement of sex workers throughout the European Union;

Amendment 366 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Calls for Member States to support those trafficked for sexual exploitation in the regularisation of their residency status;

Amendment 367 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23b. Calls on the Member States to design and implement policies to deal with trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution, and to ensure that all relevant parties, such as NGOs, the police and other law enforcement agencies, and social and medical services, are supported, involved in decision-making processes and work in cooperation;

Amendment 368 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23 b. Underlines that a successful exit programme must be one which is readily accessible and able to help women who have psychological problems, those who fail to master the Member State’s language, those who have experiences of duress and exploitation, as well as those with a history of addictions;

Amendment 369 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)

23 c. Notes that exit programmes for women seeking to leave prostitution are best able to help women and girls in a free market economy that is high growth and in turn able to provide women and girls with good quality, well-paying jobs that represents a viable alternative to prostitution;

Amendment 37 #

Christine ANDERSON, Annika BRUNA, Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are increasing; whereas, in many cases, they tar~~e gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised~~get socially and economically vulnerable members of ~~our~~ societ~~ies~~y, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and ~~almost all~~countless sex buyers being men;

Amendment 370 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)

23 d. Underscores that obstacles to growth in the economy will not deter women and girls from entering prostitution but instead increase it through a lack of opportunities in the wider economy;

Amendment 371 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 e (new)

23 e. Calls on the Commission to launch a programme that would engage prostitutes (both former and current) into a training scheme that would help them kick start their own entrepreneurial activity;

Amendment 372 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for comprehensive psychological, medical and socio- economic support for victims and survivors; insists on prostituted persons having prompt access to a range of support for their social and professional reintegration, specifically by providing them with easy access to social protection mechanisms (minimum basic income, support for housing and healthcare, further schooling and access to vocational training) and guaranteeing their children access to social provisions;

Amendment 373 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls ~~for~~on Member States to introduce comprehensive psychological, medical and socio- economic support for victims and survivors of prostitution; this support should include freely available health advice, financial support, housing; emphasises that this support should be confidential, and should be designed to protect the anonymity of the victim where requested;

Amendment 374 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for comprehensive psychological, medical ~~and~~, socio- economic ~~support for victims and survivors~~and administrative support, as well as residence permits for victims and survivors of human trafficking, in a language that they can readily understand;

Amendment 375 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for comprehensive psychological, medical and socio- economic support for victims and survivors of sexual exploitation and human trafficking;

Amendment 376 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward awareness-raising campaigns with the aim of discouraging the demand, highlighting the link between the demand for sexual services and the phenomenon of trafficking for sexual exploitation and the high numbers of women being trafficked inside and to the European Union; furthermore calls for awareness- raising for the particular risks people and especially women in prostitution face, including the high prevalence of gender- based violence; calls for these campaigns to further target young people and men while also dismantling stereotypes;

Amendment 377 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls for a financial support for the civil society defending rights of persons selling sex; Regrets that these organisations and communities are targeted by hate speech and defamation campaigns by government officials or influential public personalities especially in countries that aim at abolishing prostitution;

Amendment 378 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together with the FRA and EIGE to collect data on sex work in the EU in order to examine the experience of people selling sex and to act as the basis for common EU guidelines on access to fundamental rights for sex workers;

Amendment 379 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls for a European wide agreement that explicitly forbids prostitution by those under the age of 21, those who are pregnant, as well as a ban on street-based prostitution and other inhumane “working” conditions;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~prostitution, its~~the sexual exploitation, and ~~trafficking for the purpose of sexual explo~~forced prostitaution ~~are increasing~~seem to become a growing global problem; whereas they are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and almost all sex buyers being men;

Amendment 380 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls on the European Union to increase employment opportunities for those exiting prostitution, in particular through the European Social Fund +;

Amendment 381 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24 b. Regrets the fact that the European Commission Citizens, Rights, Equality and Values Programme rejected funding addressing intersectional discrimination of persons selling sex in past on the bases that the legislative competence on how prostitution and sex work is regulated remains within the discretion of the EU Member States; Calls on the European Commission to include the issue of intersectional discrimination of persons selling sex into its funding programmes; In line with the EU's Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, calls on the EU institutions to ensure visible support for defenders of rights of persons selling sex acknowledging the critical work they carry out in defending the basic human rights of communities that are among the most marginalised; Ensure non- discriminatory access for these organisations to EU human rights funding streams including with regards to Human Rights Defenders protection;

Amendment 382 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24 b. Recalls the need for informed decisions to be taken before wide sweeping conclusions can be drawn; highlights that while there is no one single Nordic model applied in the same way within the Union, the implementation of the Nordic model continues to take place; underlines that when implementing the Nordic model, Member States should take advantage of best practices employed in other Member States;

Amendment 383 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24 b. Calls for full access to non- discriminatory and universal health and social services as well as to the justice system for everyone, especially for people and women in prostitution;

Amendment 384 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24 b. Calls on the Commission to improve data collection techniques in order to effectively monitor the levels of prostitution on an individual Member State and Union level;

Amendment 385 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24 c. Calls on the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU to address the issue of human rights of persons selling sex and to compile research that will provide reliable information and data on the human rights situation of persons selling sex in the EU- in particular in the area of their access to justice system.

Amendment 386 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24 c. Urges Member Stares to take a holistic approach to better protect women in prostitution and to that end urges them to introduce the Nordic model in a way that proactively incorporates the positive aspects of regulated prostitution;

Amendment 387 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24 c. Highlights that people who had to commit criminal acts in the framework of their exploitation should not be charged for these;

Amendment 388 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)

24 d. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to investigate how the demand for prostitution fuels human trafficking and to take into consideration reports by Europol that prove that legalised environments facilitate the exploitation of victims for human traffickers;

Amendment 389 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)

24 e. Calls on Europol to step up the cross-border collaboration and exchange of information, in particular with regard to data collection;

Amendment 39 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation ~~are increasing; whereas they~~1a are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and almost all sex buyers being men; _________________ 1a Although sexual exploitation was still the predominant form of exploitation in 2020, it has reached it’s lowest point since 2008. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Trafficking_in _human_beings_statistics&oldid=574250 #More_than_half_of_registered_victims_s exually_exploited

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3

— having regard to Article 6 of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which aims to ~~eliminate~~suppress all forms of traffick in~~g i~~ women and exploitation of ~~women in~~ prostitution of women,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas ~~prostitution, its~~ exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are increasing; whereas they are gender~~- specific~~ed phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of ~~people in prostitution~~sexually exploited people being women and girls and ~~almost all~~the majority of sex buyers being men;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas sexual exploitation through the prostitution of others is a form of sexual exploitation which has already been recognised as an offence in legal acts of the Union, namely Directives 2011/36/EU and 2011/93/EU; whrereas sexual exploitation through the prostitution of others is a gross violation of a person's right to bodily integrity and implies that both a person and their consent to sexual activity can be purchased for a given sum;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas prostitution is a form of slavery incompatible with human dignity and with fundamental human rights, as it is inextricably tied to inequalities between women and men and has an impact on their status in society and the perception of their mutual relations and their sexuality; whereas prostitution is undoubtedly a heart-rending expression of violence against women;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. Whereas deeply rooted gender stereotypes related to women’s sexuality and morality, result in the stigmatisation and discriminatory treatment of sex workers, including by law enforcement officers, based on their transgression of gendered social and sexual norms or for not conforming to gender roles specifically because they are sex workers;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the EU is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas sexual exploitation is a serious form of violence that mostly affects women and girls; whereas the EU needs to support neighbouring countries in order for them to increase funding for social support and access to services for victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, with psychological and social support from specialists, and to introduce specialised services dedicated to the full social and economic inclusion of marginalised women and girls to free them from sexual exploitation;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas prostitution should be addressed by Member States since the Union has no competence in this area;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas human trafficking has a cross-border dimension that requires the authorities in Member States to collaborate in order to address it;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas attributing the full responsibility for this phenomenon to the possible existence of cultural stereotypes detracts from understanding the problem and, therefore, its possible solution;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the ~~internationally accepted~~ wording used in most legally binding texts is prostitution of women and prostitution; whereas this term has connotations of criminality and immorality and can be perceived as demeaning and stigmatising; whereas this contributes to exclusion of people selling sex from health, legal, and social services; whereas people selling sexual services prefer the term “sex workers”, whereas this term is also more and more used by international bodies and human rights organisations;

Amendment 5 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Carina OHLSSON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)

— having regard to Articles 1 and 4 of the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention);

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the internationally accepted wording used in most legally binding texts is prostitution of women and prostitution; whereas this text intentionally does not use the wording “sex work” not wanting to mask the violence and abuse that people and especially women in prostitution encounter in their large majority; whereas using this wording however does not seek to discriminate people that consider themselves as sex worker;

Amendment 51 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the internationally accepted wording used in most legally binding texts focused on policing and criminality is prostitution of women and prostitution; however international documents and organisation focused on health and human rights use the term sex workers, as this term does not include negative connotations of criminality; highlights that self-identification of those concerned should be always respected

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the terms “prostitution”, “prostitute”, “women in prostitution” or “prostituted women” denote value judgement; the term “prostitution” has connotations of criminality and immorality and serves to stigmatise an already marginalised community; whereas people who sell sexual services prefer the term “sex worker”, and find the use of “prostitute” contributes to their exclusion from health, legal, social and justice services; whereas in recent years international bodies use the terms sex worker or people selling sex

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas sex work, broadly defined, is the exchange of sexual services including sexual acts between consenting adults for money or goods, which may involve working independently, with others, or for a third party, regularly or sporadically; whereas if the consent between parties is absent for any reason, including threat or use of force, fraud, abuse of power or involving a child, such activity cannot be considered as a sex work and would constitute a human rights violation;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas Article 2 of directive 2011/36/EU states that the consent of a victim of trafficking in human beings to the exploitation, whether intended or actual, shall be irrelevant where it is obtained through the giving or receiving of payments or benefits;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas prostitution reduces all intimate acts to their monetary value and diminishes the human being to the level of a form of goods or an object to be used by the client,

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through threat, force, fraud, deception, abduction, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability or other forms of coercion, with the aim of exploiting them for profit; whereas victims of human trafficking can be of all sex and genders, all ages and from all backgrounds, this dangerous phenomenon affects disproportionally women and girls and other vulnerable groups in every region of the world, whereas traffickers often use violence, fraudulent employment agencies and fake promises of education and job opportunities to trick and coerce their victims and profit from a very developed and well financed criminal network, in the shadow of society;

Amendment 57 #

Radka MAXOVÁ, Pina PICIERNO, Vera TAX, Alessandra MORETTI, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality;~~ various juridical systems and different regulatory approaches are implemented concerning the sex selling; whereas regulations in the EU can be divided in two models - legalisation and prohibition, that can be further divided in sub-models; whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality; whereas these laws and policies rarely achieve their desired effects on prostitution or a trafficking control and fail to address stigma and institutional discrimination and violence;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas ~~different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality~~the main purpose of all regulatory measures is to avoid that women and girls are exploited; whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality; whereas so far none of the regulatory models has been able to provide sufficient safeguards for sex workers;

Amendment 59 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality impacting a society’s understanding of gender issues and inequalities and conveying messages and norms to it;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to the Commission on Human Rights Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, UN Doc. E/CN.4/2000/68, 2000;

Amendment 60 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on ~~gender equality~~people’s dignity and rights;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas different regulatory measures in the Member States concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas different regulatory measures concerning ~~prostitution~~the sex industry have different effects on gender equality;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas gender equality and women’s rights, their self-determination and safety, need to be in the heart of any regulation aimed at discouraging the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons; whereas policies tackling demand have to be especially focused on educational, social or cultural measures, including through bilateral and multilateral cooperation;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas Member States should ensure that when an offence is committed with the intention of earning profit or gain or that an offence actually brought profit or gain from the prostitution of another person (i.e. profiting from human trafficking) that this profit is considered to be an aggravating circumstance;

Amendment 65 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas different policy measures currently implemented in the EU member states concerning people providing sexual services fail to address stigma, institutional discrimination and violence - including police violence, marginalisation and human rights violations against people selling sex

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas in Member States the ban of prostituted persons under 21 years of age, pregnant women and women working in the streets should be considered as a basic concept within a European framework and thereby respected and applied in all Member States;

Amendment 67 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

C b. whereas prostitution exists within a system in which different actors interact, with pimps and others trying to maximize their profits from prostitution and sex buyers who constitute the demand;

Amendment 68 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

C c. whereas street-based prostitution represents an environment which is devoid of humane conditions for women;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas women ~~in prostitution face mor~~selling sex face globally egregious human rights violations, including high levels of gender-based violence; whereas they face more psychological, physical and sexual violence including institutional and police violence and exploitation than women on average;

Amendment 7 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (‘Istanbul Convention’)

Amendment 70 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas various studies show that women in prostitution face more violence and exploitation than women on average; whereas sex must be based on consent which should always be given freely and voluntarily and cannot be substituted by the exchange of money;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas women in prostitution face more violence and exploitation than women on average; whereas the majority of women would like to give up prostitution and whereas effort should be made to promote the adoption of exit programmes;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas women ~~in prostitution~~selling sex face more violence and exploitation than women on average;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. Whereas a presumption of criminality and discriminatory treatment has the effect of preventing sex workers from seeking justice when they encounter physical or sexual violence or extortion for fear that they will instead become the focus of a criminal investigation; Wheeras aggressors can direct violence at sex workers with relative impunity.

Amendment 74 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Evelyn REGNER

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas perpetrators may include not only violent clients and exploitative third parties but also police officers; whereas prohibition and criminalisation of prostitution can make it even more difficult to report the experience of violence; whereas these crimes against them are under-reported, under- investigated and unpunished;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas, among other things, a lack of high quality and easily accessible and sufficiently financed exit programmes leads to women and people staying in prostitution while they would prefer leaving it;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas all victims of these practices should receive comprehensive care and support to overcome difficulties and return to employment;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

D b. whereas access to justice for people selling sex has always been compromised by discriminatory stereotypes and stigma; whereas people selling sex are consequently afraid of the police and immigration authorities and do not report cases of abuse and violence to authorities due to the well-founded fear that they will either receive no support, or even get fined, detained or deported;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

D b. Whereas sex workers are among the most precarious of informal workers, in part due to the criminalisation of various aspects of their work, such as clients and brothels, which often results in them also being criminalised; whereas they are also exposed to high rates of workplace violence.

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

D c. whereas due to lack of human rights impact assessment and lack of meaningful inclusion and consultation of affected communities the well-intended interventions that aim to prevent violence and exploitation in the sex industry fail; whereas international research, undertaken by amongst others UNDP, UNFPA, UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation, demonstrates legislation to disproportionately affect persons selling sex's rights and safety.

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to the Article 8 of TFEU and its commitment to promote gender equality in all of Union’s actions;

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

D c. whereas there is limited access to justice for sex workers due to discriminatory stereotypes; whereas people selling sex are reticent to report cases of abuse and violence to authorities due to the fear of being ignored, receiving no support, or being fined, detained or deported1a _________________ 1a https://rm.coe.int/revised-study-on-the- impact-of-covid-19-on-access-to-justice- 19-1-2023/1680a9d0c8

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D d (new)

D d. whereas personal data of a sensitive nature collected during investigations of sexual violence is routinely shared outside the scope of the original investigation between authorities and in many cases lead to disproportionate punishment of persons selling sex, such as by eviction, deportation or through social sanctions.

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ensuring the ~~physical integrity of all~~rights of all people to have their bodily integrity, privacy and personal autonomy respected and guaranteeing equality and respect for women’s rights must be at the heart of Member State and EU policies;

Amendment 83 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ensuring the physical integrity of all and guaranteeing equality and respect for ~~women’s rights~~human rights including the right to make decisions over their own body and life must be at the heart of Member State and EU policies;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ensuring the physical integrity of all and guaranteeing equality and respect for women’s rights must be at the heart of Member State and EU policies in relation to prostitution;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ensuring the physical integrity of all and guaranteeing equality and respect for ~~women’s~~human rights must be at the heart of Member State and EU policies;

Amendment 86 #

Maria NOICHL, Heléne FRITZON, Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, Carina OHLSSON, Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ, Evelyn REGNER, Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas sexual and reproductive health is fostered through healthy approaches to sexuality conducted with mutual respect;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas there are strong links between prostitution and organised crime such as human trafficking; whereas in particular women and girls in vulnerable situations are trafficked for the purpose of prostitution and prostitution serves at the same time as an incentive for human trafficking;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas the~~re are strong~~ human trafficking concerns many domains and fields, such as domestic work, agriculture, mining among others; whereas there can be a links between ~~prost~~sexual exploituation and organised crime such as human trafficking;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas human trafficking concerns many domains such as domestic work, agriculture and mining amongst others; where as there are ~~strong~~ links between ~~prost~~sexual exploituation and organised crime such as human trafficking;

Amendment 9 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 b (new)

— having regard to the European Sex Workers Alliance policy brief entitled "Undeserving victims? A Community Report on Migrant Sex Worker Victims of Crime in Europe"

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas there are strong links between forced and sometimes non-forced prostitution and organised crime such as human trafficking;

Amendment 91 #

Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Maria da Graça CARVALHO, Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. Whereas the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus are used by human traffickers to exploit vulnerable women with the promise of student visas and student registration, only for them to be coerced into prostitution upon arrival and put through inhumane living conditions; whereas the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus serve as an area of impunity for human traffickers working in forced prostitution;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas human-trafficking gangs with links to prostitution, sometimes posing as NGOs, can use illegal immigration networks to operate with impunity; whereas Member States should maximise surveillance efforts and prosecute organised crime, identifying the perpetrators;

Amendment 93 #

Christine SCHNEIDER, Lena DÜPONT, Pernille WEISS, Arba KOKALARI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA, Angelika WINZIG, Eleni STAVROU, Frances FITZGERALD

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas organised crime and corruption, human trafficking, very violent crimes and corruption grow around prostitution and whereas, where prostitution has been legalised/regulated, those who benefit most are the pimps who become 'businessmen' or 'entrepreneurs';

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas prejudices and stereotypes block women from pursuing and realising their entrepreneurial ambitions, which serve to hold women back and force women into a poverty-stricken life through no wrong doing of their own;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas there are strong links between prostitution and organised crime activities such as child trafficking, sexual exploitation of minors, creation of pornographic and pedopornographic material;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas the human-trafficking gangs with links spanning prostitution and organised crime that are being allowed to bring illegal immigrants to Member States are often the same gangs that then exploit the immigrants on national territory;

Amendment 97 #