Sous nos yeux : « Le plus beau métier du monde ? »

Created on Wednesday, 08 July 2020 14:51

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Sous nos yeux/ Right Under Our Eyes: The International Observatory on Sexual Exploitation of the Fondation Scelles launches a podcast series

Created on Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:13

It would make you rich and famous. It’d be pleasant and fulfilling ­̶ pleasurable even. It’d satisfy men and women alike. It could even reduce male violence.

If we believed the media, films, series and social networks, we’d think that teenage girls work so hard in the hope of being admitted one day to an MBA in John Management offering them unique opportunities in brothels around the world. It makes one wonder if demand could ever keep up with all this supply...

Deep down, we know that the dominant depiction of prostitution is what it is: a mere fiction. And a convenient one: if we don’t see what is right under our eyes, perhaps it will all get better. In any case, it’s none of our business.

Or maybe it is?

Facing what happens right under our eyes: that’s what we tried to do. We invited journalists, researchers, activists, survivors that have fought for years for the rights of women not to be prostituted to express themselves. Each week, we’ll host a new speaker that will tell us about the reality of sexual and reproductive exploitation, the very one we don’t want to see or listen to.

Sous nos yeux, which means Right Under Our Eyes, is available on major podcast platforms: Spotify, Soundcloud, Deezer, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Audioblog. Some episodes will be in English others in French. If you enjoy it, please share and leave a review on Apple Podcasts so that others can hear these important voices.

The interministerial evaluation mission of the Law of 13 April 2016 shows that when the law is fully implemented, it works

Created on Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:10

The interministerial evaluation mission of the Law of 13 April 2016 calls for political impetus, human and financial resources to remove blockages and respond to challenges.

The Report was eagerly awaited by both abolitionist and opponents alike. to the law, which is still regularly under attack (most recently by an appeal to the ECHR in April 2020).

It's the result of a nine-month survey punctuated by travel, more than 200 people met, and a series of questionnaires addressed to public prosecutors, prefects and Regional Health Agencies, conducted by three Inspectorates: the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs, the General Inspectorate of Administration and the General Inspectorate of Justice.

It provides a precise inventory of the implementation of the law, an analysis of the blocking points and facilitating factors, and proposes 28 recommendations to extend and optimize the application of all aspects of the law throughout the country.

The Report highlights the progress made:

- +54% of criminal proceedings for pimping and trafficking in human beings

- 7X increase in the number of identified victims of trafficking in human beings

 - 395 exit programs since 2016

- 90% of the prefects questioned consider the departmental commissions to combat prostitution to be useful (page 118).

- nearly 5,000 sex-buyers arrested (799 in 2016, 2072 in 2017, 1939 in 2018)

These results show once again that, when the law is fully implemented, it works.

However, its implementation implementation remains uneven and heterogeneous. As of October 2019, the findings of the local implementation assessment study of the law in 4 cities and co-financed by Fondation Scelles and DGCS, were already calling for a full implementation of the law on The report also made nine recommendations, which are more or less the same as the 28 recommendations made in this report.

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Open Letter

Created on Monday, 13 April 2020 10:13

On the 13^th of April, the FondationScelles submitted an open letter to the Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men. In that letter, we recognize the effort made by the government to help persons in prostitution by extending residency permits and exit programmes.

>> You can read the full letter in French here.

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Understanding and identifying dissociation

Created on Wednesday, 01 April 2020 16:47

On the difficulty for police, justice and child protection professionals to protect minors in situation of prostitution.

‘I could feel a little like a princess, like someone special… it allowed me to tell myself that it wasn’t so bad after all. I could forget all themoments of violence. Prostitution is really not about sex … it’s really about being reduced to the state of an object, it’s losing your humanity’ explains Andrea, 23, who has been in prostitution since the age of 14. The excerpt summarises the manifestation of a state of post-traumatic disorder (PTSD), often observed in minors in situation of prostitution: dissociation.

>>> Download the expert note: "Understanding and identifying dissociation" (format PDF) >>> Go to the website of the international observatory