Activities of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2013/2103(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality (short presentation)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality PDF (251 KB) DOC (112 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas prostitution is a form of slavery incompatible with human dignity and fundamental human rights,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas work is one of the main sources of human self-realisation, through which individuals make a supportive contribution to collective wellbeing,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas sexual and reproductive health is promoted through healthy approaches to sexuality conducted with mutual respect,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas prostitution reduces all intimate acts to their monetary value and diminishes the human being to the level of merchandise or an object to be used by the client,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas organised crime, human trafficking, extremely violent crime and corruption flourish in the shadow of prostitution, and any framework of legalisation primarily benefits the pimps, who are able to transform themselves into ‘businessmen',
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas prostitution and trafficking in women and girls are linked because the demand for women in prostitution, whether trafficked or not, is the same; whereas trafficking acts as a means to bring a supply of women and girls to the prostitution markets;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that the profound economic and social crisis has led to dramatic levels of unemployment, the main victims of which have been low-skilled women but also, for the first time, women further up the social scale, and that this has caused a breakdown in the economic structure of families, forcing women to engage in prostitution, essentially to feed their families;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Believes that looking upon prostitution as legal ‘sex work’ and decriminalising the sex industry in general and making procuring legal, is not a solution to keeping vulnerable women and girls safe from violence and exploitation, but has the opposite effect and puts them in danger of a higher level of violence indoors;; as well as make the prostitution markets grow, and thus the number of women and girls abused even bigger.
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recommends to the Member States that they take urgent measures to prohibit advertisements in the social media which directly or indirectly encourage prostitution or seek to attract clients for prostitution;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Member States to provide public social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, offering psychological and social support and staffed by specialised professionals, and to implement social policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, specifically by guaranteeing them jobs which will effectively result in their social inclusion;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Member States to provide social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation and to implement policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution, and to fund organisations working on the ground with support and exit strategies;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Member States to provide social services for victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation, including for migrant and undocumented women, and to implement policies aimed at helping vulnerable women and girls to leave prostitution;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Member States to support and cooperate with social organisations working in support of prostituted women;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the EU and its Member States to develop gender specific prevention policies in the countries of origin of trafficked prostituted persons;