Government under pressure to punish those who buy sex

The Government is coming under increasing pressure to punish those who buy sex and to move away from the current emphasis on prosecuting prostitutes.

Increasing poverty as a result of the economic crisis is pushing more women and girls into prostitution, and members of the European Parliament want countries to adopt the Nordic model.

This criminalises sex buyers and not the prostitutes and views prostitution as a violation of women’s human rights and a form of violence against women, the members of the Parliament’s Women’s Rights Committee agreed overwhelmingly.