Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-16-Speech-1-120"
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"Madam President, there are always three sides to the trafficking of human beings: the victims, the organised crime networks and the demand side. The customers, or ‘clients’, are predominantly males who feel that they have a right to buy women, or rather, girls. Should we grant them this right without limits?
A recent comprehensive study commissioned by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and conducted by the Italian-based Transcrime Institute, shows that this restrictive view on the demand side has a decisive impact on the number of victims of trafficking. I am pleased to say that Finland is about to adopt a law similar to the one in force in Sweden, criminalising the buyers of sex. The Prets report which we are now discussing is weak in that respect.
I know it will take some time before a majority of Member States have criminalised the buying of sex, but is it not time that we criminalise the buying of slaves and criminalise the men who buy the victims of trafficking?
I will end this speech in the same way I have promised to every time I speak in this House:
‘I therefore maintain that prostitution must be abolished’."@en1
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"ceterum censeo prostitutionem esse dilendam"1
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