Belgium pushes new legislation to provide health insurance, pensions, and annual vacations for sex workers

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Important Takeaways:

  • The law is the first in Europe — and the world — to provide sex workers with social security provisions such as pensions and maternity leave, as well as an official employment contract.
  • What does the new law mean in practice?
  • The legislation, which was approved with 93 votes in favor, 33 abstentions and 0 votes against earlier this month, allows procurers to provide Belgian sex workers with an employment contract for the first time.
  • The change gives sex workers access to social security provisions such as pensions, health insurance and annual vacation. It also gives sex workers protection from work-related risks, including implementing standards on who can become an employer.
  • Daan Bauwens of the Belgian Union for Sex Workers UTSOPI explained that the new law places restrictions on who can hand out contracts to sex workers — limiting the possibility of exploitation.
  • People who have previous convictions such as human trafficking and theft will not be able to become employers
  • Belgium keeps being an outlier in the European context when it comes to answering the demands of sex workers’ unions.
  • Just two years ago, it became the first country in Europe to decriminalize sex work in Europe.
  • [Wine Press reported] Andrea Heinz, a prostitution abolition advocate, criticized the law on X, saying: “There is little chance this will (actually) favor women. Under legalization/full decrim, pimps become ‘managers’ with the backing of the state to further entrench and maintain their power. Pimps see women they sell as products, not people deserving of full dignity & respect.”
  • One social media user replied, “So the govt helps pimps to coerce sex what a disgusting idea.”

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Oakland’s problem of Sex Workers extends to front of Catholic grade school but these girls are young, very young

Romans 1:28 “And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.”

2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Important Takeaways:

  • Video showing alleged sex workers soliciting outside East Oakland school sparks call for action
  • Video showing women who appear to be sex workers soliciting right outside a Catholic grade school in East Oakland is raising concerns about human trafficking in the area.
  • Parents and city officials tell the I-Team young women, some police believe may be trafficked, are walking outside St. Anthony’s K-8 grade school off E. 15th Street in Oakland at all hours of the day.
  • One witness says “We’ve seen up to 20 women walking up and down this street,” Gallo said. “Young, young girls.” “I’ve seen some as young as 15, 16 years old,” Gallo said.

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