Paris, France, French AIDS Activist Protest, Nun, protesting Prosititution Law Forbidding passive soliciting for Clients, Portrait, homosexual street man
"The offense of passive soliciting will be repealed, confirms Najat Belkacem Vallaud- Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Belkacem-Vallaud announced this Saturday in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper that François Hollande commitment to repeal the offense of passive soliciting will be held. Commitment of the Presidential Campaign of François Hollande made on the repeal of the offense of passive soliciting will happen, said in an interview published Saturday in "Le Parisien". Minister of Women's Rights Najat Belkacem Vallaud-nearly 10 years after the passage of this controversial bill . "This commitment will be required. For one simple reason: the introduction of the offense of passive soliciting prostitutes was guilty, when 90% of them are victims of human trafficking," says the minister in Paris / Today in France. "To escape the police, they are far from city centers and support structures, finding themselves more vulnerable to violence," she says, echoing the arguments hammered by associations for 10 years. March 18, 2003, the Homeland Security Act established the offense of passive soliciting, penalizing "the fact by any means, including by passive attitude even from publicly soliciting others to encourage them to relations sex in exchange for a fee. " Any offender becomes subject to two months' imprisonment and a fine of 3,750 euros. "Repeal this offense does not mean impunity for traffickers, on the contrary, as we demonstrate in the strongest terms against the networks," says Ms. Vallaud-Belkacem. According to the minister, "beyond the targeted initiative of the Senate," the government wants to "produce a text that will address these issues in their entirety." Senator EELV Esther Benbassa filed a bill to repeal the offense of soliciting, which will be debated in the Senate on March 28. "We work with a number of parliamentarians, left and right, so that is developed by the autumn a comprehensive bill on prostitution and trafficking" human beings," (
Size: 2592px × 3872px
Location: Paris, FRANCE
Photo credit: © Directphoto Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -paris, ..., ..os, act, action, active, activists, adults, aids, anti-prostitution, caucasian, city, costumes, deliberative, democracy, demonstrating, equality, europe, france, french, front, health, hiv, holding, homosexual, human, immigration, international, issues, law, lgbt, life, man, men, opposing, participatory, passive, people, posing, problems, prostitutes, protest, protesting, rally, rights, security, signs, slogans, social, soliciting, standing, street, travesties, urban, womens
