Recently Women call for sex industry crackdown Women’s organisations are calling for the demand for prostitution to be criminalised to better protect victims like eastern European women who have been caught up in a shocking web of sex crime in Malta. Malta Confederation of Women’s Organisations chairman Renee Laiviera said demand for prostitution, rather than supply, was the real problem as she urged the authorities to institute legal measures against clients seeking out prostitutes. She said Malta should emulate the direction taken by Nordic countries: “We should take the initiative and introduce such legal measures in the shortest timeframe possible.” In Malta the law prohibits loitering and living off the earnings of prostitution, but it does not penalise demand. Last Thursday, Raymond Mifsud was jailed for 11 years for luring women to Malta by offering them work in a restaurant. Instead, the pimp locked them inside his farmhouse and forced them to ha...