Report on one of the flagship measures of the Homeland Security Act which is the removal of the distinction between passive and active solicitation. Commentary on factual images of the demonstration of prostitutes and images of illustrations. The montage incorporates the words of Claudia, spokesperson of the France Prostitution committee and Patrice Ribeiro, police officer.
Report. The law of 18 March 2003 of Nicolas SARKOZY, then Minister of the Interior, prohibiting passive solicitation, has the effect of moving prostitution from the centre to the outskirts of cities. In Lyon, prostitutes talk about the deterioration of their working conditions. A comment on factual images alternates with interviews of protistuées, and Florence GARCIA, director of the association "Cabiria".
On the occasion of the foundations of prostitution the Mutualité, interview of Sonia, spokesperson. It calls for prostitutes to be given status and the right to respect and dignity. Images of prostitutes on the sidewalk.
About 300 prostitutes, gathered at a national level, gathered in front of the Senate in Paris to protest against the "anti-prostitution measures" contained in the bill on internal security. Images of the demonstration with demonstrators often wearing white masks and banners with powerful slogans.
Emblematic measure of the law against prostitution: the penalization of the client. Testimony of a prostitute in the Bois de Boulogne and reaction of Morgane MERTEUIL, spokeswoman of the Strass (trade union of sex workers), and of a prostitute during a demonstration that explain the harmful consequences of this measure. In a demonstration in defense of this law, interview with Olivier MANCERON, head of the FDFA movement (-Women to say it, women to act).
Testimony of Maud, prostitute of the street Saint Denis, where customers are rarer. Gabriel is a regular customer of Maud’s. In his sixties, he explains that she is a companion for him. He does not understand the bill that scares him or Maud who fears that it will worsen the living conditions of prostitutes who are victims of networks.
The socialist bill to strengthen the fight against prostitution was finally adopted by MEPs on Wednesday after two and a half years of debate. Prostitutes are opposed to this law and fear a worsening of violence. This is also feared by the Cabiria association, which follows 1400 sex workers in Lyon and its region. Interviews with prostitutes and associations.
Today, sex workers have once again demonstrated to demand the right to exercise their profession freely. For the first time a sex work union, STRASS, has been created by a group of associations that defend prostitutes. Interviews with Camille CABRAL, director of the association "Prévention action santé travail transgenre", GILDA, collectif Droits et Prostitution, and Cornélia SCHNEIDER, interregional coordinator of the sex work union.
Since this morning in Lyon, eighty prostitutes have occupied the church of Saint Nizier to protest against the repression exerted by the police in the exercise of their profession. Report illustrated by images of prostitutes lying in the church and interviews with the parish priest, a prostitute
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