Press articles
04-10-2015
For the first time ever The Netherlands is going to make prostitutes punishable by law. Sex workers without a brothel license can risk a jail sentence of six months. The Dutch union for sex workers
PROUD is completely against the new law.
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04-06-2015
Everywhere in The Netherlands several city governments use events to permanently close down brothels or at least to discuss their permits. The fight against abuse and human trafficking have become an excuse to close down workplaces of sex workers. "Actually it's about something completely different, gentrification and fighting prostitution itself", says a spokesperson of
PROUD, the Dutch union of sex workers in The Netherlands.
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01-05-2015
From Friday the 1st of May at least 24 window prostitutes in Amsterdams Red Light District are unable to use their workplaces for a unknown number of months. The brothel operator has to give away 18 of his window brothels because in the past things happened there the sex workers themselves were not involved with, says
PROUD on behalf of the involved women. The new brothel operator has requested a permit and in the meantime the buildings arent allowed to be used. The women are therefore being kicked out onto the streets by the city government!
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06-04-2015
PROUD is organizing next Thursday a big demonstration of sex workers and sympathizers against the closures of window brothels in Amsterdam. Thats when the controversial Project 1012 is on the agenda in the city council.
PROUD, the union for sex workers, will hand over a list of demands to mayor Van der Laan, in which they call out to immediately suspend the planned closures of prostitution around the Old Church in the capital.
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26-03-2015
Triodos is refusing to open up a bank account for the union for sex workers (
PROUD). Spokesperson Lyle Muns: We were very surprised that a bank we picked because of their social involvement slams the door in such a way in our face...
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08-02-2015
Sunday 15 February at 14:00 the new sex workers union PROUD will present itself at Yab Yum!
PROUD will announce during the presentation its mission statement and will call out the 15th of February as the day of paid love.
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05-02-2015
PROUD, the new union for sex workers is happy with the feasibility study to self-exploitation of the city government. The union expresses the importance of structurally and bindingly involving sex workers. The organization also wants to contribute in a positive way to the project. By self-exploitation we now get the possibility to create the most ideal workplace ourselves. Its also an important step in improving our position, says spokesperson Lyle Muns.
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01-02-2015
After the abuse scandal of a 16 year old girl in Valkenburg, ChristenUnie youth are protesting in Amsterdams Red Light District.
PROUD, the new union for sex workers, is furious at the protestors and is organizing a contra-protest. This is a new height in the crusade against prostitution. The Christian fundamentalists are scaring clients away while the majority of the women in the Red Light District just wants to work quietly, says chairwoman Mariska Majoor.
PROUD is therefore doing a contra-protest.
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28-01-2015
PROUD, the new union for sex workers in The Netherlands is fed up with the smear campaign against the profession whos interest they want to protect and is ready to fight the hardest fight against prostitution since the beginning of 1900.
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