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According to the authors of the bill, right now only city administrative committees (within city executive body) can deal with these cases, the village committees are not authorized to take the case. Since the cases should be addressed by the executive bodies in the location where the person is officially registered, most of cases on individual sex work remain unaddressed because most of fined sex workers come from smaller towns and villages.
Blanka Hancilova, analyst at the University of Vienna, said the latest version of the Czech bill on prostitution plans to introduce repressions against prostitutes. She said she believes this would not lead to a long-term solution of the problem.
Hancilova said municipalities should seek ways of reintegration of prostitutes into society instead of forcing them out of their centres.
Most parties voted in favour of the loan, but the project met with resistance from the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the Evangelical People’s Party (EVP) and the Swiss Democrats (SD).
All politicians agreed on one point, however: kerb-crawling at the Sihlquai red light district in the city centre must come to an end.
In a lively debate, Marcel Savaroud of the Social Democratic Party (SP) thought that the district in Alstetten would allow for better oversight.
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Фильм производства SWAN, сопутствующий региональному исследованию по насилию в отношении секс-работников в 11 странах Восточной и Центральной Европы и Средней Азии. Презентовался на Международной Конференции по СПИДу в Вене 2010.