03/12/2025
CAP International in Berlin to promote the abolitionist model!
In early November, we joined the Bundesverband Nordisches Modell to promote the need for an abolitionist model in Germany.
Between 200,000 and 400,000 people are estimated to be in prostitution in the country, 82% of whom are foreign women. Germany was among the first countries to regulate prostitution in 2002.
In Berlin, we met with the team of Café Neustart, providing grassroots support to women in prostitution for two decades in Berlin’s red-light area. The organisation reports that since the war in Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian women in prostitution in the Kurfürstenstraße neighbourhood has increased sevenfold.
🔴 There, we discovered the ‘prostitution toilets’ : booths set up by the municipality in the street, where s*xual acts are purchased by s*x buyers in appalling conditions, revealing the inhumane and degrading treatment of women in prostitution in a country that “legalises” a system that violates and exploits them.
CAP International met with Bundestag policymakers and joined a conference of the Bundesverband Nordisches Modell to support the abolitionist model, reaffirming: “The term “s*x work” attempts to mask the inherent violence of prostitution. It erases the vulnerabilities and the intersecting oppressions that drive women into it. It normalises the submission of every aspect of human life, including s*xuality, to the market.”
✊Together with our partners and members: SOLWODI, SISTERS and the Bundesverband Nordisches Modell, the campaign for an abolitionist law in Germany continues!
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