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Uproar in Switzerland as prostitute Griselidis Real buried near Protestant John Calvin

A prostitute who campaigned for the rights of sex workers has been honoured with a burial plot in the same cemetery where Protestantism's John Calvin is buried, sparking criticism from women's rights activists.

Griselidis Real, who died in 2005, was buried on Monday at the Cemetery of the Kings, which is reserved for individuals that have profoundly marked Swiss or international history. Argentinian writer Jose Luis Borges and child psychologist Jean Piaget are among the luminaries interred in the cemetery.

The body of Real, who was 76 when she died, was exhumed from another cemetery in Geneva for the ceremony that some have called offensive.

"If every woman that had children to raise alone turned to prostitution, the city of Geneva would be a bordello," said Amelia Christinat, a feminist and former member of the Swiss parliament who opposed Real's reburial.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)