Poverty and unemployment force many women, including young girls, into prostitution. Prostitutes are especially vulnerable to violence because their status, which may be unlawful, tends to marginalize them. They need the equal protection of laws against rape and other forms of violence.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Tipo de documento
General Comment / Recommendation
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Gender
Poverty
Violence
Personas afectadas
Girls
Women
Youth
Año
1992
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 19, Violence against women (1992), para. 15.