press releases

Press Releases 2022

  • "Take a closer look" - also with the people in prostitution

    January 2022

  • Gerhard Trabert - a worthy candidate for the office of the Federal President

    February 2022

  • Warning against human traffickers offering shelter to refugee Ukrainian women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation

    March 2022

  • The tightening of human trafficking paragraphs is ineffective

    Due to the liberal prostitution legislation, Germany has become a target country for human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In particular, women from poor regions in south-eastern Europe are trafficked into prostitution in Germany. Sexual exploitation takes place in legal brothels, in registered and unregistered apartments and on the streets of German cities. Particularly richer EU countries with liberal prostitution legislation benefit from the plight of these women, for example through tax revenues. "This contradicts the values that the EU has given itself as a community and that it represents to the outside world," says Marie Kaltenbach from the Nordic Model Alliance. "These women are sexually exploited in this country and Germany does not accept any responsibility for the physical and mental damage suffered by those affected."

  • Justice ministers call for a holistic realignment of the entire regulatory area on human trafficking and sexual exploitation

    June 2022

  • Overwhelming majority in Spain for the Nordic model:

    June 2022

  • 20 years of experimentation is enough! For a rethinking of prostitution policy

    October 2022

Open letters, letters of support, statements

  • Letter of Support for Opinion from Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution (CAP International)

    The Nordic Model Alliance stands for a rethinking of German prostitution policy because it considers the goals of the Prostitution Act of 2002 to have failed and the Prostitute Protection Act of 2017 to have failed. Therefore, Bündnis Nordic Modell joins the statement of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution (CAP Inter-national) of March 31, 2022.

  • Statement by CATW and CAP on Belgium's liberal prostitution legislation

    Belgium is amending its penal code, modeled after the disastrous German prostitution law of 2002-2017, to further decriminalize johns, pimping and brothel operators

Press Releases 2021

  • The unrestricted rule of men is by no means a thing of the past

    16. November 2021

  • 10/05/2021 - Day against prostitution

    The Alliance for the Nordic Model is holding protests throughout Germany to draw attention to the abuses in prostitution

  • New anti-trafficking strategy

    The Nordic Model Alliance welcomes the European Commission's new anti-trafficking strategy

  • Alliance NM submits shadow report on Istanbul Convention to GREVIO

    Alliance NM submits shadow report on Istanbul Convention to GREVIO

  • Tightening of § 232 a paragraph 6 StGB - the criminal liability

    Alliance Nordic Model welcomes the tightening of § 232 a Para. 6 StGB - the criminal liability

  • Incidences are falling – human trafficking in Germany is opening again

    Incidences are falling – human trafficking in Germany is opening again

  • Impunity for prostitutes in distress

    Alliance Nordic Model calls for impunity and support for prostitutes who have gotten into trouble due to the corona pandemic, as well as punishment for clients

  • alliance formation

    Strong voice(s) for a modern prostitution policy in Germany - Over 30 human rights associations and initiatives start nationwide "Nordic Model Alliance" for a change of perspective in society and politics