Over the last two years, there has been an increase in prostitution rings from Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, head of the police anti-trafficking unit, Rita Superman said yesterday, Cyprus Mail reported.
Also more Cypriot women are also being driven into prostitution due to the financial crisis, she said. Superman was speaking at a conference organised by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, the Cyprus Women Lobby and the European Parliament Office in Cyprus at Europe House in Nicosia, aimed at kick-starting a public dialogue on the issue of’ ‘Women in prostitution in Cyprus’.
Sex work is not illegal in Cyprus. What is illegal is trafficking, pimping, maintaining a brothel, violence against prostitutes and soliciting work.
In 2011 there were 18 cases involving trafficking and/or taking sexual advantage of women and so far this year the police have investigated 33 prostitution cases, five of which involved trafficking, Superman said.
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