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希腊自2008年深陷金融危机以来，非法从事性交易以应付家人或自己生活开销的女性暴增150%。
据希腊媒体报道，希腊失业率超过25%，约1/3希腊人生活在贫穷线之下，其中又以妇孺等弱势族群受害最深。
希腊派迪昂政治经济大学和希腊社会科学中心调查发现，娼妓过去7年来暴增150%，但其中也包含遭人蛇集团迫害的外国女子。2012年，在雅典卖淫的女子约17000人，如今至少有18500名女性为生活下海。
希腊金融危机加剧，性产业营收也受影响。该大学研究指出，希腊性产业自2012年至今年5月初的营收约6亿到6.2欧元之间。娼妓价码自2009年来下跌20%到50%，多数“小姐”交易一次的价码介于5到30欧元不等，甚至还有人收费更低。
“人权观察”组织研究助理伊娃·柯西说：“过去这几年，许多雅典居民失业或被赶出住所。紧缩政策实施以来，染艾、自杀和忧郁人口大幅增加，数十万人被拒于医疗体系之外。许多人流浪街头，被迫从事非法毒品或性交易。”
希腊有合法公娼和非法的街头“流莺”，公娼须符合严格规定才能取得特殊证照，因此全希腊合法公娼仅约千名。
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/greek-cris...-austerity-has-violated-womens-rights-1508814
Greek crisis: Thriving sex industry shows austerity has violated women's rights
By Lydia Smith
July 1, 2015 14:57 BST
675 75
A sex worker hides her face inside a luxury brothel which sponsors the local Voukefalas soccer team in Larissa(Reuters)
Seven years of an economic crisis has left debt-stricken Greece with the highest level of unemployment of any developed economy. Nearly a third of Greeks are living below the poverty line, and children and families make up a significant proportion of those most vulnerable as a result of brutal austerity measures.
This is well-known and well-documented. Yet one fallout of Greece's mass unemployment is largely concealed – the rising rate of women turning to sex work to make ends meet. There are reportedly around 18,000 sex workers in Greece, up from the estimated 17,000 in 2012.
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According to the Greek Centre for Social Sciences and Panteion University, the number of people selling sexual services in Greece has soared by 150% during the crisis – driven by those desperate to put food on the table after the nation's financial meltdown.
"Over the last few years, Athens has struggled with an increasing number of people who have lost their jobs, been evicted from their homes, and affected by poverty and social exclusion," says Eva Cossé, senior research assistant for the organisation Human Rights Watch.
"As austerity measures have been carried out, HIV, suicide, and depression have increased and hundreds of thousands of people have been locked out of the health system altogether," Cossé says. "Some live on the streets and others go there to find drugs or to find clients for sex work."
Although unemployment rates edged down from 27.2% to 25.4% in February, many women have been left with no other choice than sex work. Many ask for just a few euros in exchange for services, having been forced to drive down their prices because of competition. Others offer unprotected sex to boost their income.
Speaking to sex workers on the streets of the Greek capital last year, Cossé found many women worked to make ends meet. Some sold sex to support a drug habit and some had other jobs on the side. "They told me they face many challenges, including serious health problems, homelessness, police abuse, daily harassment and constant discrimination," she says.
It is a sad reality for the thousands of women trapped in a cycle of illegal street prostitution to fund an addiction.
Although street prostitution is illegal, sex work is legal in Greece. Sex workers must register and undergo health checks every two weeks. Brothels or "studios" allow women to work legally and as of legislation introduced in 1999, they must all have a licence issued by the state. Yet according to reports, only a fraction of brothels operate with a licence and fewer than 1,000 sex workers are registered.
A homeless man suffering from HIV begs for money in central Athens(Getty)
The legislation surrounding sex work is major part of the problem. There is a lengthy list of requirements women must adhere to in order to register as a legal sex worker. They must have the right to live and work in the country, be free of infectious disease and must not suffer from a drug addiction.
In Greece, married women are barred from working legally in the sex industry. Forced away from brothels – largely considered safer than working on the street – they end up working illegally, facing a potentially heightened risk of violence and health problems.
Soula Alevridou, the owner of a legal brothel in the Thessaly region capital Larissa, told the BBC the number of married women approaching her for work has doubled between 2010 and 2015. "They plead and plead but as a legal brothel we cannot employ married women. It's illegal. So eventually they end up as prostitutes on the streets," she said.
Greece's ongoing financial crisis has sparked a public health disaster that has seen infectious diseases soar. A report released in 2014 by researchers from Oxford and Cambridge universities with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found evidence of rising HIV rates in the country.
Cuts to programmes supporting health workers, increased drug use in a time of social degradation, and an rise in sex workers offering riskier service – sex without condoms – to boost their meagre incomes, have all contributed to the rise in infection rates.
Yet instead of addressing the real problem – taking accountability for the negative repercussions of cuts in healthcare to achieve targets set by the Troika – Greek authorities have pushed the blame onto the sex workers. In 2012, the police arrested 17 allegedly HIV-positive sex workers as part of a crackdown on unlicensed brothels.
Accused of intentionally causing serious bodily harm, their names and photographs were published on the police website – despite human rights advocates claiming it was unclear whether the women knew they were positive.
Instead of condemning women working illegally in the sex industry, more needs to be done to address their health, Cossé says. "The Greek government should implement a genuine public health approach to people who exchange sex for money, drugs, or life necessities, and make sure that police officers respect the rights of women whose lives are hard enough already."
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严重危机致希腊私娼暴增 一次5欧元
07-05 07:33 财经综合报道
放到桌面
欧元集团：拒绝在全民公投前与希腊继续谈判
00:00
00:00 / 00:41
希腊自2008年深陷金融危机以来，非法从事性交易以应付家人或自己生活开销的女性暴增150%。
据希腊媒体报道，希腊失业率超过25%，约1/3希腊人生活在贫穷线之下，其中又以妇孺等弱势族群受害最深。
希腊派迪昂政治经济大学和希腊社会科学中心调查发现，娼妓过去7年来暴增150%，但其中也包含遭人蛇集团迫害的外国女子。2012年，在雅典卖淫的女子约17000人，如今至少有18500名女性为生活下海。
希腊金融危机加剧，性产业营收也受影响。该大学研究指出，希腊性产业自2012年至今年5月初的营收约6亿到6.2欧元之间。娼妓价码自2009年来下跌20%到50%，多数“小姐”交易一次的价码介于5到30欧元不等，甚至还有人收费更低。
“人权观察”组织研究助理伊娃·柯西说：“过去这几年，许多雅典居民失业或被赶出住所。紧缩政策实施以来，染艾、自杀和忧郁人口大幅增加，数十万人被拒于医疗体系之外。许多人流浪街头，被迫从事非法毒品或性交易。”
希腊有合法公娼和非法的街头“流莺”，公娼须符合严格规定才能取得特殊证照，因此全希腊合法公娼仅约千名。
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/greek-cris...-austerity-has-violated-womens-rights-1508814
Greek crisis: Thriving sex industry shows austerity has violated women's rights
By Lydia Smith
July 1, 2015 14:57 BST
675 75
A sex worker hides her face inside a luxury brothel which sponsors the local Voukefalas soccer team in Larissa(Reuters)
Seven years of an economic crisis has left debt-stricken Greece with the highest level of unemployment of any developed economy. Nearly a third of Greeks are living below the poverty line, and children and families make up a significant proportion of those most vulnerable as a result of brutal austerity measures.
This is well-known and well-documented. Yet one fallout of Greece's mass unemployment is largely concealed – the rising rate of women turning to sex work to make ends meet. There are reportedly around 18,000 sex workers in Greece, up from the estimated 17,000 in 2012.
ADVERTISING
According to the Greek Centre for Social Sciences and Panteion University, the number of people selling sexual services in Greece has soared by 150% during the crisis – driven by those desperate to put food on the table after the nation's financial meltdown.
"Over the last few years, Athens has struggled with an increasing number of people who have lost their jobs, been evicted from their homes, and affected by poverty and social exclusion," says Eva Cossé, senior research assistant for the organisation Human Rights Watch.
"As austerity measures have been carried out, HIV, suicide, and depression have increased and hundreds of thousands of people have been locked out of the health system altogether," Cossé says. "Some live on the streets and others go there to find drugs or to find clients for sex work."
Although unemployment rates edged down from 27.2% to 25.4% in February, many women have been left with no other choice than sex work. Many ask for just a few euros in exchange for services, having been forced to drive down their prices because of competition. Others offer unprotected sex to boost their income.
Speaking to sex workers on the streets of the Greek capital last year, Cossé found many women worked to make ends meet. Some sold sex to support a drug habit and some had other jobs on the side. "They told me they face many challenges, including serious health problems, homelessness, police abuse, daily harassment and constant discrimination," she says.
It is a sad reality for the thousands of women trapped in a cycle of illegal street prostitution to fund an addiction.
Although street prostitution is illegal, sex work is legal in Greece. Sex workers must register and undergo health checks every two weeks. Brothels or "studios" allow women to work legally and as of legislation introduced in 1999, they must all have a licence issued by the state. Yet according to reports, only a fraction of brothels operate with a licence and fewer than 1,000 sex workers are registered.
A homeless man suffering from HIV begs for money in central Athens(Getty)
The legislation surrounding sex work is major part of the problem. There is a lengthy list of requirements women must adhere to in order to register as a legal sex worker. They must have the right to live and work in the country, be free of infectious disease and must not suffer from a drug addiction.
In Greece, married women are barred from working legally in the sex industry. Forced away from brothels – largely considered safer than working on the street – they end up working illegally, facing a potentially heightened risk of violence and health problems.
Soula Alevridou, the owner of a legal brothel in the Thessaly region capital Larissa, told the BBC the number of married women approaching her for work has doubled between 2010 and 2015. "They plead and plead but as a legal brothel we cannot employ married women. It's illegal. So eventually they end up as prostitutes on the streets," she said.
Greece's ongoing financial crisis has sparked a public health disaster that has seen infectious diseases soar. A report released in 2014 by researchers from Oxford and Cambridge universities with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found evidence of rising HIV rates in the country.
Cuts to programmes supporting health workers, increased drug use in a time of social degradation, and an rise in sex workers offering riskier service – sex without condoms – to boost their meagre incomes, have all contributed to the rise in infection rates.
Yet instead of addressing the real problem – taking accountability for the negative repercussions of cuts in healthcare to achieve targets set by the Troika – Greek authorities have pushed the blame onto the sex workers. In 2012, the police arrested 17 allegedly HIV-positive sex workers as part of a crackdown on unlicensed brothels.
Accused of intentionally causing serious bodily harm, their names and photographs were published on the police website – despite human rights advocates claiming it was unclear whether the women knew they were positive.
Instead of condemning women working illegally in the sex industry, more needs to be done to address their health, Cossé says. "The Greek government should implement a genuine public health approach to people who exchange sex for money, drugs, or life necessities, and make sure that police officers respect the rights of women whose lives are hard enough already."
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