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Amsterdam to cut back on brothels
The city of Amsterdam is to close 51 of the window brothels in its famous red light district. This is about one-third of the total.
The city has reached a 25m euro deal to buy many of the premises and turn them into shops or housing.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, said that although prostitution was legal in the Netherlands, there was too much of the sex trade in the city centre.
He also said that the trade involved exploitation and trafficking of women, and other kinds of criminal activity.
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The city of Amsterdam is to close 51 of the window brothels in its famous red light district. This is about one-third of the total.
The city has reached a 25m euro deal to buy many of the premises and turn them into shops or housing.
The mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, said that although prostitution was legal in the Netherlands, there was too much of the sex trade in the city centre.
He also said that the trade involved exploitation and trafficking of women, and other kinds of criminal activity.
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Amsterdam to reduce sex & drugs
Amsterdam authorities said on Saturday they would halve the number of brothels and marijuana shops in the city's "red light" district and surrounding area.
The city announced plans to clean up the area a year ago and since then 109 sex "windows", from which prostitutes attract customers, have been closed. The new measures aim to reduce the number of windows to 243 from 482 last year, a city spokesman said.
Amsterdam also wants to close half of the 76 cannabis shops in the city centre.
"Money laundering, extortion and human trafficking are things you do not see on the surface but they are hurting people and the city. We want to fight this," says the mayor.
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Amsterdam authorities said on Saturday they would halve the number of brothels and marijuana shops in the city's "red light" district and surrounding area.The city announced plans to clean up the area a year ago and since then 109 sex "windows", from which prostitutes attract customers, have been closed. The new measures aim to reduce the number of windows to 243 from 482 last year, a city spokesman said.
Amsterdam also wants to close half of the 76 cannabis shops in the city centre.
"Money laundering, extortion and human trafficking are things you do not see on the surface but they are hurting people and the city. We want to fight this," says the mayor.
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Brothels become art studios
Red lights still glow in the small rooms along one of Amsterdam's inner city alleys, but the some beds are gone and artists are working on creative installations where prostitutes used to entertain clients.
As part of efforts to revitalise its centre and rein in a mushrooming red light district, the city of Amsterdam in cooperation with a housing corporation has acquired some former brothel rooms and rented them out to artists as studios.
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Red lights still glow in the small rooms along one of Amsterdam's inner city alleys, but the some beds are gone and artists are working on creative installations where prostitutes used to entertain clients.
As part of efforts to revitalise its centre and rein in a mushrooming red light district, the city of Amsterdam in cooperation with a housing corporation has acquired some former brothel rooms and rented them out to artists as studios.
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Pimp free Zone
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Prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district started a sticker and poster campaign against pimps. They are putting up stickers and posters on windows with the phrases "Pimp free Zone" and "Pimping is forbidden in The Netherlands".
The stickers and posters serve to point out to pimps that it is a criminal offence to blackmail prostitutes and make them dependent on them, says lobby organisation De Rode Draad and Vakwerk, the union for sex workers.
The organisations are taking the initiative because they feel there are too many pimps hanging around the window prostitution areas of the red light district.
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