April 11, 2012
Several anti-human trafficking groups have joined together to organize a protest rally against the recent decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal to change the legal position of sex workers. The decision allows sex workers to work from home, from brothels and to hire security to protect them. Human trafficking is a massive problem in ...
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Canada,
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prostitution,
protest,
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sex trafficking,
sex workers,
Supreme Court of Canada
March 26, 2012
Two anti-sex trade laws were ruled unconstitutional Monday by Ontario’s Court of Appeals. Three laws were up for review. The two that were struck down banned brothels and making a living off of prostitution. The law prohibiting sex workers from communicating with clients in public was upheld. The reason these laws were changed is just ...
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sex workers rights,
women's rights
February 27, 2012
Many people wouldn’t expect sex trafficking to be a Canadian issue. The majority of media coverage is about women being smuggled from Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America to work in brothels or massage parlours. However, it happens everywhere in the world; sex trafficking doesn’t discriminate based on gender, age or nationality, and it is ...
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Canada,
crime,
decriminalization of sex work,
first nations,
Jeremy Broecker,
law,
pimp,
prostitution,
sex trafficking,
sex trafficking within Canada,
sex work
May 25, 2011
Utah is making all the headlines today. But this time, it is particularly gruesome. A mother from Salt Lake City, UT has been charged with two counts of aggravated sex abuse and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for trying to sell her 11-year-old daughter’s virginity for $10,000. Felicia Rea McClure’s negotiation was ...
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child trafficking,
Felicia,
McClure,
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Salt Lake City,
sex abuse,
sex trade,
sex trafficking,
sexual exploitation of a minor,
Utah,
Victoria’s Secret,
virginity
May 18, 2011
Hundreds of sex workers and pimps took to the streets of Seoul’s red light district yesterday to protest the police crackdown of brothels. The crowd of 400, mostly women, came out wearing baseball caps, masks and sunglasses, chanted slogans like, “Guarantee the right to live!” during a four-hour rally. They were protesting police stationing patrol ...
April 20, 2011
What’s worse than being associated with sex tourism? Not being associated with it. The Hilton Hotel group has finally joined the international anti-trafficking community, promising to sign a code of conduct against sexual exploitation in the tourism industry. Signatories of the ECPAT Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel ...
January 31, 2011
Sex slaves and child soldiers are common in Afghanistan and the government has acknowledged this problem to the United Nations. The government is going to sign an agreement with the UN’s special representative for children and armed conflict on an “action plan to combat the problem.” This will be the first time they “officially acknowledge ...
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pedophilia,
sex slavery,
sex trafficking,
UN,
United Nations,
war
December 10, 2010
The ethics of America are Wikileaking all over the internet. The site has revealed that US government contractor DynCorp allegedly threw bacha bazi parties in Afghanistan. Translated as “boy play” this traditional practice involves young boys forced to perform singing and dancing routines dressed in women’s clothes so that the adult male audience can choose ...
October 20, 2010
The window display shows a variety of women, listing their age, weight, dimensions and country of birth. Price tags were attached to them as they stood under a sign which read, “Women for sale according to personal taste.” Is this a vision of a dystopic future? No. This was Tel Aviv, yesterday. It was part ...
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criminalizing johns,
criminalizing sexual services,
law,
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sex slavery,
sex trafficking,
sex workers,
Tel Aviv,
Women To Go,
Working Group Against the Trafficking of Women
September 24, 2010
Neither are known for tackling the weightiest of subjects on screen, but Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have joined forced to launch the “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” campaign. “Not many people are aware that yesterday was the anniversary of the Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation,” said Kutcher. “The assumption is that slavery is ...
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Real Men Don't Buy Girls,
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technology