

European Parliament Resolution on Violence and Prostitution
Today the European Parliament adopted with a strong majority (343 for, 139 against, 105 abstentions) a Resolution that acknowledges the violence inherent to the system of prostitution, saying that prostitution is a breach of women’s fundamental rights and contradictory to the EU Charter for Fundamental Rights. The Resolution recognises that prostitution violates human dignity and human rights, and is an obstacle to equality between women and men. The Resolution came after the