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Petition update, 20 February 2009

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Criminalising clients means: Street prostitutes revert to darker less safe areas * don’t carry condoms (as used in evidence) * they have little time to appraise clients and weigh up risk * dispersal breaks up informal networks, needed for protection, and inhibits health services' ability * trafficking victims are less likely to be helped * prices have fallen so they have to work longer with more clients, and accept clients + acts they would have rejected .

We call upon Government to decriminalise + to comply with Council of Europe Resolution 1579 (Oct 2007), specifically:

"…avoid double standards + policies which force prostitutes underground or under the influence of pimps..; instead...seek to empower them..by..refraining from criminalising…prostitutes + developing programmes to assist (them) leave the profession should they wish to..;…ensuring prostitutes have access to safe sexual practices...respect the right of prostitutes who freely choose (prostitution) to have a say in.. policies..;..ending the abuse of power by the police + other public authorities towards prostitutes.."

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• Thierry Schaffauser
• Robert Howard
• PM Osborne
• Lukas Waclawski
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• juliepalfrey
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• Adam Clack
• Martin Drew
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