Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Prostitution'
Ending Prostitution 'Central' to Ending AIDS, US Tells Supreme Court
by Melissa Gira Grant, The Nation, USA - On the steps of the Supreme Court Sunday morning, shortly before arguments began on the constitutionality of compelling aid recipients to oppose prostitution, a dozen or so students in marigold hooded sweatshirts...
The Sex Industry Is Repulsive, but It Cannot Be Wished Away
by Tanya Gold, The Guardian, UK - It seems the data on prostitution changes depending on who, how and where you ask, which again leaves second- and third-wave feminists beating each other with sticks. Who is the real abuser of...
Trial Sheds Light on Trafficking of Women in Argentina
by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - A high profile trial for trafficking of women is giving the public a clearer picture of how sex trafficking rings operate in Argentina, with victims who are even forced, eventually, to become victimisers....
Afghanistan: Catch 'em Young, for Prostitution
by Rebecca Murray, IPS, Italy - Families will sell their women and they will work as prostitutes. The reason we don’t see many cases is because of the nature of the culture. These women don’t have options because a lot...
Ban on the Purchase of Sex Has Changed Attitudes
by Kristin Engh Førde, Kilden, Norway - The Norwegian ban on the purchase of sex was intended to reduce human trafficking and to convince people that prostitution is wrong. But has it worked? Both yes and no....
Photo Exhibit Dispels Myths about Child Sex Industry
by Galina Stolyarova, The St. Petersburg Times, Russia - “A rape victim is typically seen in society as someone worthy of compassion; a child involved in a commercial sexual exploitation scheme is seen differently — most people do not even...
Nigerians Lured to Italy to Work in Sex Trade
by Juliana Ruhfus, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Thousands of women deceived by promises of regular jobs in Europe being forced to work as prostitutes....
Lawyers and Sex Workers Await Fate of Prostitution Laws
by Tracey Tyler, Toronto Star, Canada - Lawyers for the federal and Ontario governments have urged the court to restore the legislation in the interests of deterring prostitution and the exploitation of women. Parliament passed the laws to stamp out...
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
by Alice Spencer, The Paper, USA - As workers in the sex industry we are often denied a voice, we are considered only passive victims, we are taught to be ashamed of our work, we are made invisible by discriminatory...
Rehabilitation Cuts no Ice with India's Sex Workers
by Astrid Zweynert, Trustlaw Reuters, UK - What many sex workers want more than anything is to have their work decriminalised. In India, selling sex is not illegal but activities around sex work, such as soliciting or running a brothel,...
World Debate: HumanTrafficking
by Zeinab Badawi, BBC, UK - Human trafficking exists in almost every country on earth. As many as 27 million people are estimated to live in modern slavery. Can this problem be stopped?...
Zurich Ponders Use of 'Sex Boxes' to Control Prostitution
by Marta Falconi, Swisster, Switzerland - After encouraging results in Germany, Zurich city officials are considering the installation of "sex boxes", fenced parking areas, where prostitutes and their clients can conduct business away from the public eye. In a city...
Women for Sale
by Amelia Gentleman, Guardian, UK - Using prostitutes now seems commonplace among top football stars, while research suggests the number of men paying for sex is increasing. Are attitudes towards prostitution changing?...
Indonesia's Comfort Women Break the Silence
by Katrin Figge, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - This is the story of Ronasih, from Serang, West Java, but it is shared by many other young Indonesian girls who became victims of sexual violence during World War II....
Sex Trafficking Fear as the Games Loom
by Sarah Calkin, Echo News, UK - Research has shown that during large sporting events, sex crime actually increases because of the large number of participants and a lot of people traveling from country to country....
The Feminist and the Sex Worker: Lessons From the Indian Experience
by Srilatha Batliwala, Himal Southasian, Nepal - Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, today it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter.From the earliest days of ‘second wave’ feminism, the...
Big Claims, Little Evidence: Sweden's Law Against Buying Sex
by Laura Agustín, The Local, Sweden - A new review of Sweden's ban on buying sex has provided little hard evidence that the policy of prohibition has worked, but few politicians have dared to point out its obvious failings....
Big Claims, Little Evidence: Sweden's Law Against Buying Sex
by Laura Agustín, The Local, Sweden - A new review of Sweden's ban on buying sex has provided little hard evidence that the policy of prohibition has worked, but few politicians have dared to point out its obvious failings....
A Call for Sex Workers’ Rights in Africa
by Chi Mgbako, Pambazuka, Kenya - A global conversation about the rights of sex workers is happening without African voices. While activists on other continents have successfully organised to engage governments in dialogue, the criminalisation of the trade in Africa...
A Day in the Life of a Sex Worker
by Nikki Rixon, Road to 2010, South Africa - Natasha is one of 4,000 street-based sex workers in the Western Cape. Originally from Johannesburg, she lost her mother at a young age and never knew her father. She was...
Iceland: The World's Most Feminist Country
by Julie Bindel, Guardian, UK - Iceland has just banned all strip clubs. Perhaps it's down to the lesbian prime minister, but this may just be the most female-friendly country on the planet....
The Lost Girls
by Mimi Swartz, Texas Monthly, USA - For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to work as prostitutes in the city’s underground sex trade, escaping from captivity may be the easiest part of the...
JAMAICA: The Other Side of Paradise
by Kathy Barrett, IPS, Italy - It's just before midnight, and the music pulsates through the massive speakers perched under the ceiling, scantily clad girls in their five-inch heels moving closer to the iron poles....
New Approach to Sex Work
by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge & Loveday Penn-Kekana, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - The South African Law Reform Commission has begun a process to review the law on adult prostitution that will culminate in a Bill with one of several options,...
Sex Workers Say 'No' to Licensing Law
by Marijke Peters, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Amsterdam and prostitution have been bedfellows for a long time and the city’s red light district attracts thousands of tourists, who come to take advantages of the liberal laws....
The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking
by Noy Thrupkaew, The Nation, USA - IJM marshals more than 300 Christian lawyers, law enforcement specialists and social workers who collaborate with local counterparts and police to provide services to victims of slave labor, sexual abuse, police brutality, illegal...
Teen Girls Are Swapping Sex for ... Just About Anything
by Zosia Bielski, Globe & Mail, Canada - Teen prostitution is an emerging middle-class phenomenon in Canada, says journalist and documentary filmmaker Sharlene Azam in her new book Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss....
A Window into Delusions of Male Fantasy
by Breda O'Brien, Irish Times, Ireland - Pornography has been mainstreamed. Slippers for three- year-old girls bear the Playboy logo. Anything goes. Is it any wonder, then, that buying sex has become virtually acceptable, “so long as it is everyone’s...
Very Young Girls Looks at Sexual Trafficking in NYC
by Marcia G. Yerman, Huffington Post, USA - The average age of girls getting pulled into prostitution is thirteen. Lloyd knows the score, having been there herself....
Disturbing the Peace
by Marte Ericsson Ryste, Kilden, Norway - Prostitution is to an increasing extent considered a disturbance of the peace, while social measures receive less attention....
Trafficked, then Left Waiting by the Roadside
by Natalie O'Brien, The Australian, Australia - What happened to Susie is any woman's worst nightmare: she was allegedly locked in a room and raped by several men during the course of a night. Six years later she still wakes...
Iraqi Women Refugees: Surviving in Syria
by Jane Gabriel, openDemocracy, UK - There are believed to be more than three million Iraqi refugees living in Syria: initially allowed in without restriction and treated as guests, they are finding it harder to survive as months turn into...
Lost Daughters – An Ongoing Tragedy in Nepal
by Kamala Sarup and Lys Anzia, Women News Network, USA - “In recent years, millions of women and girls have been trafficked across borders and within countries. The global trafficking industry generates an estimated five to seven billion U.S. dollars...
The Nowhere Children
by Neha Dixit, Tehelka, India - Geeta, Priyanka and Parul were 12, 9 and 7 respectively when they were sent to work at the house of Manish and Ritu Gupta in Faridabad, Haryana, in January 2006. Priyanka and Parul would...
Azeri Trafficking Victims Face Social Rejection
by Sabina Vaqifqızı, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, Azerbaijan - “Victims of human trafficking are subjected to two traumas. First is the humiliation they feel; second is their rejection by society. People close to victims should try and understand...
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