The absence of prostitution from the Istanbul Convention: an effective limit?

This essay focuses on the absence of prostitution from the Istanbul convention and investigates how it must be interpreted. In our opinion, the reasons of the absence of prostitution could be the impossibility to find uniform domestic regulations between States parties’ internal laws and a “peaceful” debate on this point. Nevertheless, if these grounds probably could explain the absence of voluntary prostitution from the Istanbul Convention, they do not justify the exclusion of forced prostitution from the classification of serious and structural forms of violence against women that the Istanbul Convention pledges to contain.