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March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"Since it passed its first anti-trafficking laws in 2010, the government has been scrambling to get on top of this crisis, spending millions of euros on an emergency plan to target the individuals and gangs operating with impunity. In 2015, it went further and created formal alliances between security forces, prosecutors, judges and NGOs, to rescue victims and prosecute the perpetrators" (para 5). "As in many countries, a prosecution is almost impossible without a victim willing to disclose their situation and testify against their exploiters. 'There is great fear among victims that if they tell the police, they will be sent back to their countries with their debts unpaid,' Nieto...more
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-4

"I meet Maria and Marcella, both in their mid-20s, in the offices of Apramp, an organisation set up to protect, reintegrate and assist women in prostitution. Apramp helped them escape their traffickers, and they are now among its outreach workers. Their day job is to identify potential trafficking victims and try to offer them a way out. They find women they think might need help on the streets, in hostess clubs, and in some of the 400 residences they say are operating as informal brothels in Madrid" (para 6). "As a young girl, Mora watched her mother (also called Rocío) start Apramp from their kitchen table. At 18, Mora was...more
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1

"Before, it was largely older men sneaking away from their families. Now, both the women on the streets and the sex buyers themselves are getting younger. 'The social stigma isn’t the same as it was when I started out,” she says. “We have a generation of young men growing up believing they have the right to do anything to a woman’s body if they have paid for it, and they don’t have to worry about the consequences'" (para 17).
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-LAW-6

"Yet this vastly profitable and largely unregulated market has also become infested with criminality, turning Spain into a global hub for human trafficking and sexual slavery" (para 3). Since the industry is so notoriously unregulated, the Spanish government likely does not have guidelines in regards to STD tessting (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Although the Spanish Socialist party, which two weeks ago won another term in government, has promised to make it illegal to pay for sex, prostitution has boomed since it was decriminalised here in 1995" (para 2). "Under Spanish laws, you need proof of the use of extreme violence and intimidation to prosecute cases of pimping and coercion" (para 30).
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-DATA-2

"Recent estimates put revenue from Spain’s domestic sex trade at $26.5bn a year, with hundreds of licensed brothels and an estimated workforce of 300,000" (para 2). "And demand is huge: another survey, conducted in 2006, found that nearly 40% of Spanish men over the age of 18 had paid for sex at least once in their life" (para 17).
March 9, 2024, 12:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-DATA-1

"Until 2010, the law didn’t even recognise human trafficking as a crime. Now the Spanish government estimates that up to 90% of women working in prostitution could be victims of trafficking or under the control of a third party – such as a pimp – who is profiting from them. Between 2012-2016, security forces in Spain rescued 5,695 people from slavery but acknowledge that thousands more remain under the control of criminals" (para 4).
March 9, 2024, 12:27 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1

"The high demand of paid sex goes hand in hand with a wide acceptance of its consumption" (para 3).
March 9, 2024, 12:27 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-LAW-1, IRP-LAW-4

"In 1995, prostitution was depanelized as a voluntary activity, leading to an unregulated and very successful establishment of the sex industry since then" (para 2). "So far, the laws in Spain have been ineffective in tackling the unregulated market of prostitution. Although the activity is allowed, the government draws the limit on the 'carnal pound', meaning no labor rights for sex workers, providing thus an easy outlet for criminality and turning Spain into a magnet for human trafficking and sexual exploitation" (para 4).
March 9, 2024, 12:27 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-DATA-2

"Currently, 18-19 year old teenagers on a night out, to all-men business meetings can comfortably end their night in a brothel. Unsurprisingly, to cope with the voluminous demand, there is an estimated 300,000 sex workers in Spain" (para 3). "In 2010, the United Nations estimated that 39% of men in Spain had paid for sex during their lives, an atypical amount compared to other EU countries" (para 3).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2

"The Pamplona attack – known as the 'wolf pack' case after the name the rapists gave themselves – shocked Spain and provoked a fierce debate over its sexual offences legislation" (para 15). "There were protests around the country after the judges presiding over the original trial cleared the five of gang-rape and convicted them only of the lesser charge of sexual abuse. In June 2019, Spain’s supreme court overturned the regional court’s verdict, ruled that the men had committed rape, and raised their sentences from nine to 15 years each" (para 16-17).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"There were protests around the country after the judges presiding over the original trial cleared the five of gang-rape and convicted them only of the lesser charge of sexual abuse" (para 16). "In September that year, protesters took to the streets of more than 250 towns and cities across Spain to declare a 'feminist emergency' after a series of high-profile rape cases and a summer in which 19 women were murdered by current or former partners" (para 18).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"The latest deaths bring the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners to 1,188 since 2003, when the government began recording such murders. Over the same period, 49 children have been murdered in domestic violence attacks. In 2022, 49 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner, while 43 women died in such attacks in 2021" (para 4). "'So far this January, six women and an eight-year-old girl have been murdered by sexist violence,' Spain’s equality minister, Irene Montero, tweeted on Monday afternoon" (para 5).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"But it has also revised the scope of potential minimum and maximum prison sentences, allowing some convicted sex offenders to appeal against their sentences and have them reduced. By the end of December, 129 convicted offenders had benefited from the sentencing changes" (para 13).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-LAW-1

"Spain’s 'only yes means yes' law – which was brought in following widespread anger over the 'wolfpack' gang-rape in Pamplona in 2016 – has made consent a key factor in sexual assault cases" (para 12). "But it has also revised the scope of potential minimum and maximum prison sentences, allowing some convicted sex offenders to appeal against their sentences and have them reduced. By the end of December, 129 convicted offenders had benefited from the sentencing changes" (para 13).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"But it has also revised the scope of potential minimum and maximum prison sentences, allowing some convicted sex offenders to appeal against their sentences and have them reduced. By the end of December, 129 convicted offenders had benefited from the sentencing changes" (para 13). Highlights recent prison sentencing reforms for sex offenders, which give us an inside on the prevalence of rape and sexual assault, with 129 convicted offenders receiving reduced sentences by the end of December (MD-CODDER COMMENT).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2

"Last month, the government called on courts and prosecutors to step up the use of electronic bracelets to help protect women whose former partners were subject to restraining orders. 'We think it’s important to promote the use of electronic devices, such as bracelets that alert women to the presence of aggressors,' the justice minister, Pilar Llop, said at the end of December. 'Since 2009, when these bracelets were brought in, no woman wearing one has been murdered.' Llop said it was also important to tackle those who denied the 'scourge' of gender-based violence" ( para 9-10).
Feb. 4, 2024, 5:28 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"The Spanish government has called a second emergency meeting of domestic violence experts in less than a month after the murders of six women and a young girl since the start of January, and as it considers a plan to let abused women know if their partners have been convicted of violent offenses. The crisis committee was last assembled after the murders of 11 women in December. On Monday, a 45-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter were murdered in the north-western Spanish province of Valladolid. Their killings came five days after a 38-year-old woman was murdered in the Catalan province of Lleida. The latest deaths bring the number of women...more
Feb. 2, 2024, 6:33 a.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Spain who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 15 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2

The ruling Socialist Party says the law, in line with what is termed the 'Nordic model' criminalising pimps and punters while treating prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, is intended to 'eradicate' prostitution in Spain (para 3). "'In a democracy, women are not for purchase nor for sale,' Socialist Party deputy general secretary Adriana Lastra told MPs. The party states that 'people who turn to women in a situation of prostitution participate directly in the network that shores up this serious violation of human rights,' and campaigned on a manifesto that described the sex industry as 'one of the cruellest aspects of the feminisation of poverty and one of the...more
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"The ruling Socialist Party says the law, in line with what is termed the 'Nordic model' criminalising pimps and punters while treating prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, is intended to 'eradicate' prostitution in Spain" (para 3). "'In a democracy, women are not for purchase nor for sale,' Socialist Party deputy general secretary Adriana Lastra told MPs. The party states that 'people who turn to women in a situation of prostitution participate directly in the network that shores up this serious violation of human rights,' and campaigned on a manifesto that described the sex industry as 'one of the cruellest aspects of the feminisation of poverty and one of the...more
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-4

"'It is a shame that our country is a world leader in sexual slavery,' she said. 'Now I hope that the different parties present amendments that introduce social assistance to the victims and facilities for foreign women to obtain documents'" (para 10).
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-2

"It's estimated there are 350,000 women in prostitution in Spain, 80 per cent of whom are undocumented migrants" (para 1). This quote shows that most victims of prostitution may not be deported, but are not hindered from registering as prostitutes either (EV-Coder Comment).
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-1

"'In a democracy, women are not for purchase nor for sale,' Socialist Party deputy general secretary Adriana Lastra told MPs. The party states that 'people who turn to women in a situation of prostitution participate directly in the network that shores up this serious violation of human rights,' and campaigned on a manifesto that described the sex industry as 'one of the cruellest aspects of the feminisation of poverty and one of the worst forms of violence against women'" (para 5). "'It is a shame that our country is a world leader in sexual slavery,' she said. 'Now I hope that the different parties present amendments that introduce social assistance...more
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"SPAIN has initiated legislation criminalising the purchase of sex and sexual exploitation for profit" (para 2). "The ruling Socialist Party says the law, in line with what is termed the 'Nordic model' criminalising pimps and punters while treating prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, is intended to 'eradicate' prostitution in Spain, which is deemed by the UN to be the third biggest centre for prostitution on Earth after Thailand and Puerto Rico" (para 3). "The law would impose fines for people buying sex, with harsher sentences if the victim is a minor or vulnerable (for example having been trafficked). It would impose jail sentences on pimps and those who own...more
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: IRP-DATA-2

"It's estimated there are 350,000 women in prostitution in Spain, 80 per cent of whom are undocumented migrants" (para 1). "The ruling Socialist Party says the law, in line with what is termed the 'Nordic model' criminalising pimps and punters while treating prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, Is intended to 'eradicate' prostitution in Spain, which is deemed by the UN to be the third biggest centre for prostitution on Earth after Thailand and Puerto Rico" (para 3).
Jan. 29, 2024, 8:39 p.m.
Countries: Spain
Variables: CWC-DATA-4

"It's estimated there are 350,000 women in prostitution in Spain, 80 per cent of whom are undocumented migrants" (para 1).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Australia, Czech Republic, Iceland, Israel, Macedonia, Malta, Spain
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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