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Commission on the Status of Women; 9. \u2013 20.03.2015<\/h1>\n

– UN Headquarter – New York, USA –<\/h1>\n

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The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015. Representatives of Member States , UN entities, and ECOSOS-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGO)\u00a0 from all regions of the world attend the session.<\/p>\n

Mrs\u00a0Taina Bien-Aim\u00e9<\/strong>, Executive Director of CATW\u00a0(http:\/\/www.catwinternational.org\/<\/a>), will moderate following panel:<\/p>\n

20 Years After Beijing: Prostitution, Sex Trafficking and the Question of Equality \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>New Voices, New Models, New Solutions\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panelists are: Dr. Ingeborg Kraus<\/strong> (Initiator of the Appeal “Stop Sexbuying” of the German Trauma Experts),\u00a0Rachel Moran<\/strong> (founder and director of SPACE INternational, Author of “Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution”), Vednita Carter<\/strong> (also a “Survivor”, founder and directorof “Breaking Free” in Minnesota) und Dr. Melissa Farley<\/strong> (founder and director of “Prostitution Research and Education”).Please look here for further information: http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/csw\/csw59-2015<\/a><\/p>\n

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International congress for the abolition of prostitution: Stop Sexbuying<\/strong>
\nFrom 5th until 7th of December 2014 in munich, <\/strong>
\nAnton-Fingerle-Zentrum <\/strong>
\nSchlierseestr. 47.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Why this congress?<\/strong>
\nDuring our intensive analysis of prostitution and society and in our efforts to find solutions that looks to women\u2019s interests, we in KOFRA have
\n1. founded a working group
\n2. organized and hosted information and discussion events
\n3. begun networking on local, national and European level with organisations, groups and people who want the abolition of prostitution on the lines of the Swedish\/Nordic model, the prohibition of the purchase of sex
\nOur view and our aim are based on the following analyses and perspectives:
\n1. Prostitution is an obstacle to equality<\/strong>
\nThe sexual use of a woman\u2019s body for money lastingly prevents equal relationships between the sexes. The existence of prostitution creates a male awareness, that the sexual use of women is purchasable and permitted by society. An equal relationship between men and women is precluded here, boys and men do not learn to adequately communicate with women, to cooperate, to agree on shared desires. Their own sexual wishes dominate, are viewed as legitimate, taught early and may at any time and in any form be satisfied, for a few euros. This locks both women\u2019s and men\u2019s roles in society in the traditional, hierarchical patterns of dominance and submission, that we all believed to be overcome.
\n2. Prostitution is violence against women<\/strong>
\nWomen in prostitution experience the use of their bodies by unknown men between once and 20 to 30 times a day. Together with Sweden we view this reality as violence against women. An event offering information and raising awareness as regards the concrete situation of these women and the physical, psychological and mental consequences for them is absolutely necessary. Women who have succeeded in exiting prostitution are increasingly voicing their experiences. They report having to dissociate their feelings and reactions, having to function like a machine in order to go through the degradation and pains that they are subjected to by constant vaginal, anal and oral penetration. They report having learned this technique of dissociation through childhood violence. They hoped to finally gain control of the situation and thus power by repeating the trauma as an independent decision. The opposite then happens: the trauma is perpetuated by recurrent repetition.
\nIn a society that denies women possibilities of jobs and satisfactory and adequately paid career choices that are compatible with their situations in life makes prostitution appear an easily accessible escape route: fast money when money is low, and the damages are denied.
\nThe congress informs on the realities of prostitution, the high risks born by the women, the intense violence perpetrated by the punters. It counters the prostitution myths by reality and clarifies that the purchase of sex must not be legal.<\/p>\n

Programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Foyer:<\/span>
\nExhibition:<\/span> Myths, Reality and the Consequences for the society
\nFilms:<\/span> Rita Knobel-Ulrich: \u201cTrafficking in human beings in Europe\u201d, Marion Leonie Pfeifer: \u201cTime of the Nameless\u201d a.o.
\nInformations, Books, Projects\u2026.<\/p>\n

Friday, 5.12. 2014<\/span>
\n17.00 to 21.00 o\u00b4clock in the plenary room:
\nOpening of the congress,
\nwelcome to the guests and participants
\nwords of welcome:
\nMrs. Christine Strobl, 3. major of the City of Munich
\nMrs Gunilla Ekberg, Swedish-Canadian human rights lawyer, activist and international ex- pert on human rights, gender equality, and trafficking in human beings.
\nMs. Mary Honeyball, member of the European Parliament
\nDr. Dorothee Schlegel, member of the German Parliament, SPD
\nFlorence Hubert, Terre des Femmes
\nPierrette Pape, European Women\u00b4s Lobby
\nKathleen Barry, Abolish Prostitution Now
\nLea Ackermann, Solwodi
\nHonoration of Alice Schwarzer and her great struggle against prostitution und pornography
\nLecture on the reality and the risks of prostitution. The consequences on our societies, the destruction of gender equality (Dr. Anita Heiliger)
\nSpeech of Dr. Kathleen Barry, Kalifornia\/USA
\nSurvivors of Prostitution speak about their fight against prostitution (Rachel Moran, and Tanja Rahm, SPACE International)
\nPerformance of the radical group FEMEN
\nFilmspots: \u201cGirls going wild in red light district\u201d and \u201cCampaign against prostitution\u201d, EWL<\/p>\n

21.00 to 23.00<\/em> launch-Room: Coming together<\/p>\n

Saturday, 6.12.<\/span>
\n9.30.00-17.30<\/em> o\u00b4clock workshops in Discussion Rooms:
\n9.30 \u2013 12.30:<\/em>
\n1. The Reality of Prostitution: Survivors tell the truth
\nRachel Moran, Space International, Dublin
\nTanja Rahm, Denmark
\n\u201cMarie\u201d, Germany
\nJana Koch-Krawczak, Germany<\/p>\n

2.The Swedish\/model: what it is and how it works
\nAnna Skarhed, chancellor of justice, sweden
\nGunilla Ekberg, lawyer, Swedish Government’s expert on prostitution and trafficking in human beings.
\nSimon H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m, police officer, Sweden
\nAgnete Str\u00f6m, Kvinnefronten, norway<\/p>\n

3. The Prostitutionlobby: myths and influences on the society
\nDr. Inge Kleine, teacher and activist, munich
\nSabine Constabel, social worker, Stuttgart
\nChantal Louis, EMMA-journalist<\/p>\n

4. Politicians for the criminalisation of the punter
\nDorothee Schlegel, member of the german parliament, SPD
\nMary Honeyball, EU Parliament, Committee on Women\u2019s Rights and Gender Equality
\nIsabel Fezer, Mayor of Stuttgart, FDP
\nManuela Schon, LINKE, City of Wiesbaden<\/p>\n

5. Law-Discussion: how to enforce the Nordic model in Germany?
\nProf. Dr. Rahel Gugel, lawyer at the \u201cDuale Hochschule Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg\u201d
\nProf. Dr. Susanne Nothhafft, lawyer at the catholic university of applied science,
\nmunich
\nSeyran Ates, advocat, Berlin<\/p>\n

6. Men against Prostitution
\nPatric Jean, Zero Macho, France
\nGerhard Sch\u00f6nborn, Zero Macho Germany
\nTobias AIFF, Zero Macho Germany<\/p>\n

14.30-17.30:<\/em><\/p>\n

7. Trauma. Traumatisation as cause and consequences of prostitution.
\nDr. Muriel Salmona, Psychotraumatologin, Paris
\nMichaela Huber, Psychotraumatology, Kassel
\nDr. Ingeborg Kraus, psychologist, Karlsruhe
\nTanja Rahm, survivor and therapist, danmark<\/p>\n

8. European Initiatives for the \u201cnordic model\u201d
\nMary Honeyball, EU Parliament, Committee on Women\u2019s Rights and Gender Equality
\nPierrette Pape, Policy Officer and Project Coordinator European Women\u2019s Lobby, Brussels, \u201cBrussels Call\u201d
\nRachel Moran, Survivor, SPACE international
\nAndrea Matolcsi, Equality Now, London
\nAnita Kienesberger, \u201cFeministischer Diskurs\u201d, Vienna, Austria, \u201eStopp Sexkauf\u201c
\nSandrine Goldschmidt, mouvement du nid, abolition 2012, France<\/p>\n

9. Initiatives in Germany for criminalisation of the punter
\nLea Ackermann, Solwodi, appeal \u201cMach den Schluss-Strich!\u201c
\nUlrike Maier, appeal of Karlsruhe
\nAlice Schwarzer\/Chantal Louis, EMMA-appeal
\nInge Hauschildt-Sch\u00f6n, Initiative against a mega brothel, Marburg
\nInge Kleine, Abolition 2014, \u201eStop Sexkauf\u201c<\/p>\n

10. The perpective of the police regarding the criminalisation of the punters
\nManfred Paulus, first detective inspector, decommissioned, Author, Ulm
\nHelmut Sporer, Judicial Police, Augsburg
\nSimon H\u00e4ggstr\u00f6m, police officer from the Prostitution Unit of the Stockholm Police, Sweden<\/p>\n

11. The media and the criminalisation of the punter
\nRita Knobel-Ulrich, Journalist, Filmproduction, Hamburg
\nMaria v. Welser, Journalist, Radio and televison, Hamburg
\nChantal Louis, Journalist EMMA, K\u00f6ln
\nSabrina Hoffmann, Journalist Huffington Post, M\u00fcnchen<\/p>\n

18.00-19.30:<\/em>
\nPlenary Diskcussion: Prostitution und Feminism
\nKathleen Barry, San Francisco, Abolish Prostitution Now
\nRachel Moran, Ireland, SPACE International
\nAgnete Str\u00f6m, Norway, Kvinnefronten
\nGunilla Ekberg, sweden, activist against prostitution in several countries<\/p>\n

20-22.00:<\/em> Launch Room, coming together, networking<\/p>\n

Sunday, 7.12.2014<\/span><\/p>\n

10-14.00 o\u00b4clock: plenary speeches and discussions about the consequences of the congress with all the representatives from the workshops (Mary Honeyball, Pierrette Pape, Chantal Louis, Dorothee Schlegel, Muriel Salmona, Helmut Sporer, Michaela Huber, Sabine Constabel, Patric Jean, Rachel Moran, Anna Skarhead, Ulrike Maier, Gunilla Ekberg, Lea Ackermann\u2026)<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong>
\nAnton-Fingerle-Zentrum, Schlierseestra\u00dfe 47, 81539 M\u00fcnchen<\/p>\n

Sponsors:<\/strong>
\nSozialreferat M\u00fcnchen\/Kofra, Erika Wisselinck Nachlass gemGmbH, European Women\u00b4s Lobby, Autonomes Feministisches Forum, Solwodi, Frauengleichstellungsstelle, Kulturreferat M\u00fcnchen, catholic university of applied science, indivual donations\u2026.\u2026<\/p>\n

Partners:<\/strong>
\nLandeshauptstadt M\u00fcnchen: Sozialreferat,Frauengleichstellungsstelle, Kulturreferat; B\u00fcndnis Aktiv gegen M\u00e4nnergewalt, Solwodi, Frauentherapiezentrum, Verlag Frauenoffensive, AUFF \u2013 Autonomes Feministisches Forum, Giesinger M\u00e4dchentreff, Terre des Femmes, medica mondiale, European Women\u2019s Lobby (EWL), Equality Now, KARO e.V., Maisha e.V., schwedische Botschaft Berlin, BI gegen Gro\u00dfbordell Marburg, SPACE International, abolition 2014, Karlsruher Appell, women\u2019s projects throughout Germany, many more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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