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Facing fallout among women voters over sex scandals, the PSOE tighten harassment protocols

News Desk13th December 202516th December 2025

13th December 202516th December 2025947

Spain’s governing socialist (PSOE) party is confronting a wave of sexual misconduct and prostitution scandals that now threaten one of its defining political pillars —...

162 women rescued from alleged sexual exploitation gang working across five Spanish provinces

News Desk22nd July 202528th July 2025

22nd July 202528th July 20252090

In a joint operation carried out across several Spanish provinces, agents from the National Police, the Guardia Civil and Vigilancia Aduanera (Customs Surveillance) have rescued...

Spain’s sex club owners and workers protest government’s prostitution bill

News Desk13th September 202220th September 2022

13th September 202220th September 202219423

Protesters including brothel owners and sex workers demonstrated on Monday in front of the Spanish Congress in Madrid, over a bill that would penalise prostitution...

Spanish MPs vote to draw up legislation with the aim of ending prostitution

News Desk8th June 202213th September 2022

8th June 202213th September 20223910

Spanish MPs have voted in favour of a proposal to draw up legislation with the aim of ending prostitution, cracking down on the practice by...

Pedro Sánchez vows to ‘abolish’ prostitution

News Desk18th October 202125th October 2021

18th October 202125th October 20212595

Speaking to supporters at the end of his PSOE socialist party’s three-day congress in Valencia on Sunday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that prostitution ‘enslaves’ women...

Catalonia & Castilla-La Mancha order closure of brothels – other regions expected to follow

News Desk23rd August 202014th September 2020

23rd August 202014th September 20204818

Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (14 Sept) The Catalan government has announced on Friday that all brothels are to be closed over concerns that prostitution could further...

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