Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Review of Legislation on Prostitution: Discussion

2:45 pm

Dr. Gillian Wylie:

One of the issues is that the Swedish Government evaluation has been criticised for lack of baseline data and concrete evidence and the fact that Sweden continues to have an issue with sex trafficking. Last summer in Gothenburg there was a major prosecution of a trafficking ring. Women had been trafficked from Romania to the sex industry in Sweden. There has been no abolition of the sex trade in Sweden and there is no evidence that sex trafficking does not take place in Sweden. The same applies to the Netherlands. I see both ideological poles as problematic.

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