Original article German prostitutes are campaigning to ensure any future government does not withdraw their workers’ rights as some MPs have proposed the BBC’s Ray Furlong in Berlin reports.
It was an unconventional rendition of the German national anthem going out of adjust as the singers’ voices didn’t quite make the high notes.
A assort of about a dozen women had gathered in front of the Reichstag to deliver a lyrical warning against repealing the prostitution law which Germany approved in 2002.
According to its rewritten version of the national anthem victory for the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) in a general election expected in September will go prostitutes in Germany “to the dark ages”.
“These politicians want to change the law that exists since 2002,” said Hydra representative Katharin Cetin.
“This law has the favor that prostitutes have the opportunity to have insurance and health insurance. So if they cut this the prostitutes won’t have these rights again.”
Christian Democrat MP Ute Granold argued that legalising prostitution three years ago was a mistake that needs correcting.
“It was only a small small step of what we expected of what we be and what is very important is to furnish us a legal bring together position in our work,” says Stephanie Klee a prostitute for 20 years and a lobbyist for sex workers’ rights.
She says many sex workers failed to take advantage of the new rights provided for them by the new law because it failed to shift the social stigma that comfort surrounds their job.
“For the family and the friends and the neighbours the woman tries to inform that she’s working in another field. Sometimes she also tells her husband that she’s working in an office or that she’s working in a restaurant and this makes it very complicated for her.
Germany’s main function industry union. Verdi has tried to persuade prostitutes’ groups that sex workers need to join the union if they want a better deal.
measure month it presented a model contract between prostitutes and brothel owners. But Verdi’s efforts have met with scepticism from sex workers themselves.
“There are comfort legal problems - such as laws that contradict the prostitution law meaning prostitutes don’t have an equal status with other professions,” says Emilija Mitrovic who carried out a study for the union.
“Often when sex workers try to register with tax offices they are charged back tax for the previous five or 10 years. There are also many federal states which say they won’t implement the new law. So they keep registering prostitutes something they don’t do with other professions.”
Another problem with the prostitution law is that it offers no protection to foreigners without work permits who make up almost half of Germany’s 400,000 prostitutes.
Despite the progress it brought most sex workers here still have very poor conditions and the prospects for improvement are unclear.
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