Within a framework of the program activities of Association PROI is providing service and work with the population of sex workers. We publish the letter which has been written by our client with a desire to draw the attention of all subjects included in this topic, and all with the aim to mark the 17th December. Dear all,. I am your fellow citizen, neighbor, sister, daughter, friend and mother, but also I am a woman who sells love, how is specified in the classification of occupations. It is important for me that you hear what I have to say, and I ask you to take a few minutes in your busy daily schedule and read my letter.
I will speak only for myself, although I know that my problems are also the problems of the majority, if not all, of girls and women in prostitution in this country. I am addressing this letter to all the people, to men and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the reason is constantly ignoring and neglecting the population I belong. I hope you will continue to read this with an open mind, without prejudice, and really think about what I am saying. Dear representatives of the government,. I want to inform you about some of the most common problems that I and most of the women on "our market" encounter very often.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, prostitution is punished by law. Every day we suffer from various forms of violence psychological, physical, sexual and economic , but we can not report case of violence because of criminalization. For example, if you declare as a prostitute you are simultaneously on the other side of the law. Before you invoke the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Law on Misdemeanors, which are the only official documents listing the issues of prostitution, and of course, in the context of sanctions and restrictions of this occurrence, I kindly ask you to look back and wonder what kind of solutions exist to our problems in this country?
Although we are often the victims of violence, ill-treatment and discrimination, there is no official document or strategy in which there is space for a solution to our problems.
For this country we are only a problem whose solution is a strict legal sanction that keeps us from health, social, psychological, legal and other services in which we can seek for help, our basic needs, that in reality which you create no one has empathy. This letter is also my appeal to look around, do something to change our lives, providing us with an alternative and help, making that our problems and our needs get real answers and real solutions.
