Archive for the 'Prostitution' Category
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Nicole Johnston reports on the formidable Women’s Forum not accepting the status quo in Malawi.
As the world’s decision makers embark on the road to Copenhagen, the oft-repeated refrain is that climate change will hit Africa “first and worst”. What we don’t hear enough about is [...]
It is one of the world’s oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet’s nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
Msane spoke out against arresting sex workers, when she [...]
Taiwan’s constitutional court said it would scrap an “unfair” law that means prostitutes can be punished but allows clients to go free.
“The law violates the equality principle in the constitution and shall be invalidated within two years,” the court said in a statement last week.
“Punishing only the profit-earner in the sex trade but not the [...]
The government will sponsor a bill later this Knesset session that is expected to put the squeeze on those trafficking in women for the purpose of prostitution, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich announced.
Aharonovich, addressing his ministry’s plans to combat the phenomenon during a hearing of the Subcommittee on the Trafficking of Women, said that [...]
The presence of bawdy houses that often parade women in a line up so clients can have their pick conflicts with values of human dignity and equality, a lawyer defending Canada’s prostitution laws said on Tuesday.
Speaking for the Attorney General of Ontario, Christine Bartlett-Hughes said banning brothels is parliament’s way of curtailing the commodification [...]
Several state lawmakers met with about 30 prostitutes over the weekend to explain likely changes in the state law that will close a loophole that has made Rhode Island the only state where prostitution is legal as long as it occurs indoors, The Providence Journal reports.
Most of the prostitutes were Koreans who work at a [...]
Federal officials rescued 52 children and arrested nearly 700 people over the last three days in a nationwide crackdown on child prostitution.
Almost 1,600 agents and officers took part in the raids, which followed investigations in 36 cities, according to the FBI, local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Included [...]
The ministry of women and child development, government of India, has formulated ‘Ujjawala’, a new comprehensive scheme for the prevention of trafficking and rescue, rehabilitation and re-integration of victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE).
The object of the scheme is to prevent trafficking of women and children for CSE, to facilitate rescue of [...]
On May 13, 2009, the Home Secretary of India said in a seminar organized by the Central Bureau of Investigation that there are 1.3 million prostituted children in India right now. Most of them are girls. The National Human Rights Commission of India has stated that the average age of entry into prostitution for young [...]
Calls are growing for South Africa to legalise prostitution ahead of next year’s football World Cup in an effort to limit HIV infection among millions of fans visiting the country for the tournament.
A leading health specialist told the Observer that the World Cup presented a huge risk and said there was an urgent need to [...]
A new coalition of women’s groups in B.C. is hoping to head off what they see as an emerging trend to try to legalize prostitution.
The group, called the Abolition Coalition, cites two upcoming court cases that the group says will use the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to argue that prostitutes and their customers [...]
Throughout the month of September, public transit users will receive an important education on the realities of child sex slavery in America. This week, Shared Hope International will unveil End Child Sex Trafficking: Kids are NOT for Sale in D.C., a campaign that aligns with D.C. Human Trafficking Awareness month. Bright yellow signs in Metro [...]
More than a year and a half after they fled their homes in the post-election violence, many women living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya are taking to prostitution to eke out a living.
Camp residents and non-governmental organisations working with IDPs report an increase in cases involving desperate women selling their bodies [...]
The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair. Men in need of Spanish or Farsi translators.
About 40 men somberly entered a classroom on a recent Saturday morning. About half of them wore shiny wedding bands.
All had tried [...]
Carmen Madriñán, Executive Director, ECPAT International, during an interview in Bangkok said that the saddest truth for all adults and parents is that child-trafficking has nudged it way up to become the third biggest global consumer market after such major crimes like drugs and arms sales.
It is a sad and tragic phenomenon that the third [...]
Up to a quarter of a million women and girls in Southeast Asia, mostly adolescents, are forced into prostitution each year and face violence and the prospect of contracting HIV/AIDS, researchers said on Wednesday.
The researchers, in a report documenting criminal activity in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, predicted circumstances would worsen as the financial crisis prompts [...]
The landmark Sexual Offences Bill, which reforms and amalgamates various laws relating to rape, incest and other sexual offences, was finally passed by the Senate last Friday.
The Bill will repeal the Incest (Punishment) Act, as well as several provisions of the Offences Against the Person Act. It also provides for the establishment of a Sex [...]
Behind the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip, there’s a seedy underworld.
“So how many dates tonight?” a vice investigative officer asks a girl. “Seven dates,” she said. “Seven dates – and you’re getting 100 bucks a date?” asks the agent. The girl nods.
“The reality is that a lot of people come to [...]
Sex workers in Taiwan have cautiously welcomed a government plan to legalise prostitution, but the scheme is being opposed by an alliance of women’s groups who fear it will breed crime and violence.
A red-light area similar to Amsterdam’s famed canalside sex-for-sale district has been proposed for the capital Taipei, with legal and zoning measures due [...]
Her mother and grandmother were prostitutes. From a young age, Dettrea had little doubt about the path her life would follow.
She started selling herself for sex at age 12. A year later she worked for a pimp. Before she would finally break free, Dettrea was arrested four times and became a heroin junkie.
Now 18 [...]
Recent postings- 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against women – 25 November to 10 December
- Commit • Act • Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!
- 10th Anniversary Statement on the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- UN expert calls for strengthened cooperation to intensify efforts to eliminate violence against women
- Denial of justice to rape survivors doomed to continue
- Knesset calls to get tough on domestic violence on eve of White Ribbon Day
- Women in Malawi: Holding up half the sky
- Obama honors WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise) for defying a ‘dictator’
- IPS Gender Wire up to 10 November 2009
- Anti-child pornography law signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the Philippines
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- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women links
- Rape: The Victim Experience Review
- Rape victims not believed if they come from wrong area, warns report
- Special End Violence Against Women Bulletin, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25th November 2009
- Report from Women’s National Commission focus groups on strategy to end violence against women and girls
- Together we can end violence against women and girls – Government strategy outlined
- Safety in Numbers: a study commissioned by the Hestia Fund and funded by The Henry Smith Charity and The Sigrid Rausing Trust – published on 24th November 2009
- Thousands of children subject to death threats from fathers
- Haringey Domestic and Gender Based Violence Stakeholders Conference on Rape & Sexual Assault on Girls & Young Women
- Shattered (contemporary stories of surviving sexual violence) working with Rape Crisis (England &Wales) – Exhibition Hornsey until 12th December 2009
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- Grunwick and Gate Gourmet Study Day at the Women’s Library
- Home Truths: The Social Impact of Domestic Violence – JWA – 25th November 2009
- Researcher – WRC – 7th December 2009
- 4 vacancies – Kiran – 2nd December 2009
- National Peripatetic Domestic Violence Workers – Refuge – 24 Nov 2009
- The Greatest Silence – special screening to mark 16 Days of Action – WAN – 3rd Dec 2009
- Consultation for organisations working in the field of violence against women and children
- New free legal advice clinic at Account3 in Tower Hamlets – first session 24 Nov 2009
- Children’s Rights Photography Competition – Alternative Arts – 14th December 2009
- Fawcett comments on new pay gap figures
