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According to the Ministry of Interior’s report, in 2014 10,538 people were detained under the Article 6.11 of the Administrative Offenses Code of the Russian Federation (prostitution), which is 21.6% more than in 2013 according to the newspaper “Izvestia”. The crime rate in this area increased by 42.3%. The number of criminal cases increased to 387 cases under the Article 240 of the Criminal Code (incitement to prostitution).
How and when did the idea to create an organization of sex workers in Ukraine appear? How difficult or easy was it to implement the project?
“Korrespondent” informs that “Internal Security Service of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ukraine exposed the criminal scheme of brothels’ “protection” in Kiev.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page:
The Association of Hungarian Sex Workers (SZEXE) on behalf of the Hungarian sex workers community condemns the victim-blaming articles and reports published in the media that followed the death of Nancy, a Hungarian sex worker who was murdered in a flat in Akácfa street in Budapest, Hungary. This kind of materials in the media focused on assumed client of Nancy instead of examining state regulation that coerces sex workers into isolation, exile and personal stigmatization, police violence, as well as discrimination and hatred of Hungarian society against sex workers.
Slovak comedian Evelyn supports campaign of Odyseus about violence against women working in the sex industry. The campaign is a part of the End of violence, time for rights that aims to highlight the fact that violence against women cannot be tolerated under any circumstances.
You can support campaign of the project End of violence, time for rights by
“In Slovakia, the topic of voluntary provision of sex services for money is often associated with incomprehension, condemnation and prejudice. Whatever the reasons for prejudice and indifference of the public to these women are, they contribute to the fact that violence against these women is tolerated, sometimes even approved. I do not approve such violence, so I decided to support this campaign”, says Evelyn.