Intermediary Project for Prostitutes. Annual Report 2005-2007
- Document number
- 1717
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Intermediary Project for Prostitutes. Annual Report 2005-2007
- Author/publisher
- Thérèse van der Helm, Intermediary Project for Prostitutes
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- The Netherlands, Health care, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
- Summary
- In1988, the Council decided to appoint a confidential adviser who would work full-time as anoutreach worker in the prostitution sector in order to inform and advise the foreign and Dutchprostitutes, and to familiarise them with the services inside and outside Amsterdam. Initially,this was a two-year project with just one person carrying out the outreach work. By now this"confidential adviser for prostitutes” project has a fixed place within the Public-Health-Serviceorganisation, and the number of employees has been expanded to five persons. The work iscarried out by public-health nurses (SVs) and Cultural Mediators in Prostitution (VIPs), who arejointly referred to as 'project employees' in this report. Making contact with prostitutes bymeans of outreach work in the Red-Light District and the sex clubs is one of their core tasks.They also conduct regular small-scale studies amongst prostitutes in relation to healthcare andtheir social circumstances.who attract their clients via mobiles or the Internet.This report describes the activities of the ‘confidential adviser for prostitutes in Amsterdam’project, and the collaboration with other organisations.A number of cases are described as illustrations, using fictitious names.
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