The murders in Suffolk "are another horrifying chapter in a long history of violence towards sex workers", says Petra Timmermans, a Netherlands-based campaigner for the human rights of prostitutes. Maybe there is really no escape from this rape prison called prostitution? They can openly advertise their services in newspapers and on the internet. However, a small number of legal prostitutes still solicit on the streets, government statistics show.
In response, a number of cities have created official "street walking zones" which feature special car parks for prostitutes and their clients. Condoms and coffee These car parks have privacy screens - "a bit like stalls", says Ms Timmermans - between which prostitutes can conduct their business in their clients' cars.
This is thanks to good drug outreach programmes, Ms Timmermans suggests. And she adds that the attitude of the country's police - "they are great in general" - is also an important factor. Preying on the 'worthless' End Violence Against Sex Workers Day came about in in response to the Green River serial murders in the US, in which 48 women, most of them street-walking prostitutes, were murdered around Seattle over some 15 years.
Petra Timmermans believes that if our social attitude to prostitutes changed, there would be less risk of such crimes occurring. Prostitution is a reality, she argues, and in order to protect those women and men who engage in it, it should be given equal status to other occupations. Your comments: Here in Mexico the situation terrible. Prostitution is illegal, but it is practised everywhere for men and women. The authorities like to protect them for money not for the government, but for themselves.
And if you want to have their services is probably that cops will try to take as much money as you can give for buying someone. Enrique, Mexico City Prostitution is a crime in Nigeria but it is widely practised and patronised by all and sundry. Many of the street walkers are every day exposed to the risk of being killed for ritual purposes etc, but many families' livelihood depends on it.
