Archive for the 'Prostitution' Category
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 [...]
Proposals to decriminalize sex work in South Africa have been moved back to the front burner after the newly installed premier of the country’s richest province, Gauteng, remarked that the issue should be addressed “objectively and with an open mind”. A review of the current legislation is underway.
The Sexual Offences Act of 1957 prohibits [...]
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.
The aid agency says increasing poverty is leading girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits.
It also claims that the coming football World Cup in neighbouring South Africa [...]
The United Nations Security Council is failing to make good on its promises to stop rape in war, Human Rights Watch said today. The council should immediately create a high-level coordinator for efforts to prevent and punish sexual violence in conflict, the organization said.
On June 19, 2008, the Security Council adopted the ground-breaking resolution 1820, [...]
The condition of victims of forced labour worldwide may be unrecognised because many states and organisations see it only in the light of a fight against prostitution.
The relation between prostitution and trafficking was one of the most controversial subjects debated at an international conference on trafficking called by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in [...]
By the time she was 8, Amanda had been sexually abused by her father’s friend for four years. At 12, she was peddling crack. At 14, she was selling sex on the sidewalk.
Her pimp beat her weekly to keep her working, stitching up her wounds himself to avoid questions at a hospital. Her average earnings [...]
A Taiwan sex workers’ group has urged the government to legalize the sex trade, calling on lawmakers to back a bill aimed at decriminalizing prostitution.
Campaigners believe they are just one parliamentarian short of getting enough signatures to get such a bill started in parliament.
‘We hope we can get backing from 15 lawmakers, the [...]
Iceland plans to introduce legislation criminalising the purchase of sexual services, the operation of strip clubs, and human trafficking, the government said on Wednesday.
“This plan is long overdue,” Icelandic Minister of Social Affairs Asta Ragnheithur Johannesdottir, told AFP. “This has been a fighting issue for the human rights organisations, women’s organisations and many members of [...]
According to estimates by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over 100,000 children and young women are sex trafficked every day in the United States. Most Americans think that this type of human traffic occurs elsewhere in the world in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Throughout the U.S., children, especially girls are abducted [...]
Hundreds of Chinese women have left their children behind in the hope of finding work in Paris, only to end up turning to street prostitution, a humanitarian group has said .
A report by Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) said the women, mostly in their forties and sharing small rooms, are often victims of [...]
Norway says the new law targets the clients and not the prostitutes
Norwegian citizens caught paying for prostitutes at home or abroad could face a hefty fine or a six-month prison sentence, authorities say.
The prison sentence could be extended to three years in cases of child prostitution.
The Norwegian authorities say they want to [...]
The Norwegian Parliament has voted in favour of making payment for sexual acts a criminal offence in order to protect vulnerable women and children. The law passed with 44 votes in favour and 28 against and will come into effect on January 1, 2009.
The legislation inspired by the success of neighbouring Sweden which criminalised [...]
Governments across the world grapple with the question of how best to deal with sex work: should it be decriminalised, or should existing legislation be enforced to better control the industry?
The issues concern the health and safety of the women and men on the game, how best to eliminate the criminal elements from the business, [...]
At the gates of one of Kenya’s export processing zones (EPZs) men and women push and shove each other, trying to get their national identity cards taken by the guards.
Having one’s card taken increases the chances of being employed that day as a casual labourer at one of the factories set up to boost the [...]
Poverty has led indigenous women, particularly B’laan women from various towns in Sarangani, to turn to prostitution.
The tribeswomen, aged 15 to 18, work in different beer gardens, fun houses, nightclubs and big hotels in General Santos City.
The women, social workers said, believe that with just 10 to 15 minutes with a “client,” they can immediately [...]
After her aunt turned her out onto the chaotic streets of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, eight months ago, Marie Jessy*, 16, survived by befriending men who gave her a place to stay for the night and some money the next morning.
“I don’t want to do this kind of work, I want to finish school,” she [...]
Health providers – frequently the first professional a trafficking victim consults for help – are often thrust into the fight against organised crime without adequate preparation, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The agency says there is an urgent need to ensure care for trafficking victims and hopes to fill the gap with [...]
The Cebu City Council approved on its third and final reading the ordinance implementing the provisions of Republic Act 9208 or the “Cebu City Anti-Trafficking in Persons Ordinance”.
The ordinance, authored by Committee on Family and Women head councilor Lea Ouano-Japson, now formalizes the creation of the Cebu City Inter Agency Council Against Trafficking which will [...]
Criminals trading captured women often escape punishment
The UN has called for Lebanon’s human trafficking laws to be reformed because the country has become a popular destination for women smuggled from Moldova and other East European countries to be used as sex slaves. A report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) [...]
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