A former prostitute who walked 800 kilometres across France to demand that the government make good on its promise to penalise clients ended her protest march in Paris, reports The New Zealand Herald.
Rosen Hicher, an activist who campaigns to abolish prostitution, is protesting that a draft law to fine men up to 1,500 euros for paying for sex was shelved by a committee of the French upper house Senate in July.
Surrounded by a dozen ex-prostitutes supporting her, Hicher was due to make a symbolic stop Rue du Colisee -- an upmarket street where she first prostituted herself -- before making her way to the Senate to call on lawmakers "to wake up and finally act."
Prostitution "is not a right, no one has the right to buy a woman or sell her," she said.
Pascale Boistard, minister for women's rights, also joined Hicher on the last stretch of a march that began on September 3 in the western city of Saintes.
"The Senate must re-visit this law. A large majority of the French are in favour," Boistard said.
Read more of this AFP report published by The New Zealand Herald.