Justice committee  Hello, Mrs. Ambler. It's also very much a pleasure for me to see you there. I hope we will see you in the next session in Strasbourg. About your question on the German case, let me tell you the following. In Germany it's estimated that they have about 400,000 prostitutes workin

Justice committee  Yes. In my recommendations I take the position very clearly in favour of the Swedish model, which criminalizes the purchase of sex. That means an option. I'm not criminalizing the offering of the sexual service. At the beginning of my statement I showed the map of Europe. I show

Justice committee  My view is that in either prostitution or trafficking we need more research and we need more data collection. The data collection requires a coherent system of data collection. It's not like a country where every municipality is entitled or not to have data collection so you cann

Justice committee  Hello, Mr. Sean Casey. It's also nice to see you on the other side of the Atlantic. Well, as you know, in my report I have to attend to the different situations in different countries. I have to assume that the sovereignty of a state decides which kind of prostitution policy it

Justice committee  [Technical difficulty--Editor]...make again another bill, but I'm not familiar. I had no time to study it in detail.

Justice committee  I prefer to have the French translation because I understand French perfectly—

Justice committee  —but I also understand English. I can speak French.

Justice committee  French or English, I'm fine with either. But as we started in English, let me continue in English. Is that possible?

Justice committee  In my conclusions I am not criminalizing the prostitutes. On the contrary, I say that the prostitutes should be helped. They should be safe. There should be programs of rehabilitation, I mean, giving other opportunities. It's not only a matter of rehabilitation. The prostitutes a

Justice committee  Yes, I will summarize. Just to say at the end that prostitution policies have a big impact on the possibility of reducing trafficking. In my report I also mentioned academic research, and the academic research came also to that conclusion. It's not possible in Europe to make a

Justice committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to compliment my colleagues from the Canadian Parliament, and all the witnesses and persons present. I am a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe, for the ones who might not know, is much larger th