The Center for Comprehensive Guidance and Investigation (COIN) and sex workers from the United Women’s Movement (MODEMU) have expressed their opposition to the Attorney General’s decision to prosecute clients who use the services of prostitutes.
In a press conference yesterday, Wednesday 15 May, COIN Director Santo Rosario and MODEMU president Jacqueline Montero asked Francisco Dominguez Brito to concentrate his efforts on encouraging institutions to tackle the factors that prompt women to enter the profession.
They also said that they support Profamilia’s campaign to improve sex education for young people, saying that teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are serious problems that urgently need to be solved.
However, the Attorney General reiterated that he would continue to fight against men who used prostitutes saying that it often involved minors who were taken to brothels and subsequently taken to other countries in South America and Europe where they are enslaved.
He went on to say that the Public Prosecution service would start its clampdown on prostitution in some of the country’s tourist areas and also said that no distinction would be made between the individuals who use the services of prostitutes in that even members of high society would be prosecuted.
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