Prostitution

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Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands as long as it involves sex between consenting adults. Abuses like forced prostitution, underage prostitution and unsafe working conditions still occur. To give prostitutes better protection and improve their lives, the government wants to change the rules for businesses in the sex industry. The government also wants to make it a criminal offence to engage the services of a prostitute younger than 21.

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Nationwide network for prostitution exit programmes

Prostitutes will soon be able to obtain help and support throughout the Netherlands if they want to stop being involved in...

14-10-2014 | 09:29

Minister Ivo Opstelten and John de Wolf kick off campaign against child prostitution in Brazil

Minister Opstelten (Security and Justice) and former international football player John de Wolf launched the ‘Don’t Look Away’...

09-05-2014 | 12:06

Opstelten: Task Force strengthens and broadens approach to human trafficking

The Task Force on Human Trafficking will, in the next three years, further strengthen and broaden the fight against human...

12-03-2014 | 11:40

Amendment to prostitution law submitted to Lower House of Parliament

Minister Opstelten (Security and Justice) wants the minimum age of 21 for prostitution to be specifically laid down in the law....

04-03-2014 | 11:49

Approach to trafficking in human beings: more focus on minors, prostitution sector and new forms of exploitation required

The Dutch approach to trafficking in human beings, in which increasingly more organisations are involved, is doing relatively ...

10-09-2013 | 10:35
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