New laws to ban prostitution and prosecute clients [Archive]

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08-29-13, 13:08

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Push for law to punish clients of brothels

The initiative also promotes the fight against a range of cyber-crimes that are not punishable under the Penal Code, such as promoting and facilitating prostitution online.

The intention is to reduce the demand for sexual services and avoid cases of exploitation and abduction of women.

Argentine specialists in the problems of human trafficking drove a bill in Congress to present, to establish penalties and punishments to customers of brothels and, thus, reduce the demand for sexual services and avoid cases of exploitation and abduction of women.

The initiative also promotes the fight against a range of cyber-crimes that are not punishable under the Penal Code, such as promoting and facilitating online prostitution, an activity that has grown by leaps and bounds since it prohibited the publication of classified ads of this item in the newspapers.

Fiscal Unit Assistance Ransom Kidnapping and Trafficking (UFASE)-belonging to the Public Prosecutor's Office, is the organization that is behind the creation of the new regulations.

Attorney Daniel Ichazo, one of the professionals who work hard to develop the project, acknowledged in dialogue with People's Daily that "foreign law is being collected to suit our legal system."

In this sense, the expert in crime is related to White explained that "must cut demand to attack gangs that hide behind the sex trade."

"We are convinced that we must punish the person who goes to a brothel and pay for sex.'s The only way to end the vicious cycle. As long as there customers, will remain criminal groups who kidnap and exploit women for profit," he said Ichazo, who is leading the prosecution Berazategui 1 and, since 2011 to date, more than 230 brothels closed in Quilmes, Florencio Varela, a sector of La Plata and its jurisdiction.

To Ichazo, the result of the experience in Switzerland is encouraging because then implemented a series of penalties for clients of prostitutes who "joined society".

"In 2010, the Swiss authorities have implemented this system and it worked perfectly. Obviously have to adapt to our system, so we are analyzing and looking for ways to be able to apply here," he said.

"We're pretty late in legislation for computer networks. The main problem is that the big servers are in the U.S., so that further complicates the issue. Anyway we are working to present the project as soon as possible ', said the prosecutor.

Furthermore, Ichazo added that "there are no penalties for the owners of the websites they promote and, often, behind which offer no girls enslaved in brothels that were kidnapped".

"Until we regulate this aspect, we will still have obstacles to combat trafficking mafias" he said.

Finally, the specialist said that "it is a pity" that have not taken these points into the new Trafficking in Persons Act, which was included the Criminal Code in December following the approval of a reform.

"It passed and was never treated a lot of issues that were in the pipeline," he said.