Prostitution is gender violence

Buying sex punishable in Iceland

Iceland has followed the Swedish path, as a majority of the Iceland Parliament, the Alþingi, in April accepted an alteration of the criminal code, which now forbids the buying of sex in Iceland. Thus, the nine-year long intensive parliamentary campaign for the criminalisation of the purchase of sex came to an end. For more information:http://tinyurl.com/3fqrtto