The Parliament will have to modify the law on abortion by the Summer of 2000, according to a decision of the Constitutional Court. A ..solution" that violates human rights may well emerge, although the current regulation could also be challenged from this perspective.

In the EU, thousands of women coming from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are forced to engage in prostitution. This phenomenon that became overwhelming after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is explained by the rapid impoverishment of the population. A report from Le Monde Diplomatique provides a close view.

1998 was the year of Monica Lewinsky in the United States. For those who had been familiar with Bill Clinton, this was not an unexpected development. The long story that went so far as the impeachment of the president demanded a deeper analysis of the relationship between U.S. politics and sexuality.

A U.K. minister became victim of a strange sex scandal recently. The social pheomenon in the background of the story is highlighted by the article from Socialist Outlook.

The major political tendencies of the pre-war period: bourgeois radicalism, social democracy, and Catholicism, manifested themselves in the women's movement as well. In their own way, they took a position on issues like intra-family relations or prostitution.