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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11027
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) women

European Parliament wants clients to be punished not prostitutes

Strasbourg, 26/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 26 February, MEPs voted through an own-initiative report by Mary Honeyball (S&D, the United Kingdom) by 341 votes to 139 and 105 abstentions on prostitution and sexual exploitation, calling for clients, not prostitutes, to be punished.

The rapporteur said: “We send a strong signal that the European Parliament is ambitious enough to tackle prostitution head on rather than accepting it as a fact of life”.

The MEPs believe that one of...

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