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Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 1 day ago
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Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings. Copenhagen’s city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates...
Tags: offering free, buy sex, free sex, prostitutes offering, Denmark, Copenhagen, Social Issues, Ritt Bjerregaard, Sex trade, Politics, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Human sexuality, Prostitution, Sex worker
SOUTH AFRICA-RIGHTS: Push To Protect Sex Workers During World Cup
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
Credibility Ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup have fueled renewed calls for the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa. A steering committee has been set up with a mandate to push for reforms with the police commissioner and legislature before the world soccer...
Tags: world cup, South Africa, Tim Bannet, Cape Town, south african, safe sex, Anna Sibisi, Dianne Massawe, Sex trade, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Social Issues, Sex workers rights, Sex industry, Sex workers' rights, Sex worker
Italy: Sex worker quizzed over transsexual death
Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago
Credibility Italian police are investigating a fellow sex worker and colleague of the Brazilian transsexual 'Brenda', who was found dead last month in Rome. Brenda was at the centre of a major sex, drugs and extortion scandal after being linked to former Lazio regional...
Tags: Brenda, Barbara, Claudia, Rome, sex worker, Piero Marrazzo, Italy, Law Crime
LEBANON: Sex workers still shun condoms
Beirut :: Lebanon | 4 days ago
Credibility Four years ago, at 16, Rana's husband forced her into prostitution...Asked why she ignores the risks of contracting HIV or STDs she simply says: "I don't want to lose the client." So far there are no recorded HIV cases among the country's surveyed sex...
Tags: sex workers, Lebanon, Beirut, AIDS, Social Issues, HIV/AIDS, Condom, Safe sex, Sexually transmitted disease, Prostitution, Sex trade, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Human sexuality, Pandemics, Sexual health, Sex worker
Pakistan sex workers on AIDS frontline
Lahore :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility So far we have provided hundreds of thousands of condoms to sex workers in the last two years, which have saved them from being infected with the lethal virus," said Mirza Aleem Baig, who runs the forum. Karachi, Pakistan's largest metropolis and one...
Tags: Islamised Pakistan, Pakistan Society, sex worker, Saleem Azam, female sex, Karachi, Pakistan, Lahore, HIV/AIDS, Condom, Sex trade, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Social Issues, Pandemics, Prostitution, Sexual health, Penis
SOUTH AFRICA: Legal Victory Offers Little Relief For Sex Workers
Cape Town :: South Africa | 8 days ago
Credibility They get R100 for a "mcembi" (jump in isiXhosa) but admit to being open to lowering their rates. The threat of violence is constant and the women often get hurt by clients who demand rough sex, often beat them up. Some clients drop them off far from their...
Tags: City of Cape Town, Cape Town High Court, Cape Town City Police, SA Law Reform Commission, Nomsa, Beyoncé Knowles, Jean-Pierre Smith, JP Smith, South African Police Service, sexual offences, South Africa, Cape Town, Sex trade, Social Issues, Sex workers rights, Human sexuality, Prostitution, Sex workers' rights, Sex worker, Sex industry, Law Crime
Player remanded after sex worker attack
Wellington :: New Zealand | 12 days ago
Credibility A provincial hockey player arrested over an alleged hit-and-run incident in Auckland in which a woman received a serious leg injury was remanded on bail today. Prasant Nathoo, also under investigation in relation to an assault on a sex worker 10 minutes...
Tags: sex worker, Aucklander Nathoo, New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland, Nathoo, Ponsonby, Law Crime, Disaster Accident
Sri Lankan refugees facing harassment
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 12 days ago
Credibility They claimed that Myanmar refugees are treated differently while Sri Lankans are forced to face obstacles...Tamil Forum Malaysia, a non-governmental organisation, is currently pushing for temporary work permits for the adults and building a school for...
Tags: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Tamil Sri Lankans, Tamil language, Maid, Politics, Pornographic film, Harian Metro, Makkal Osai, War Conflict, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Malaysia Nanban, Tamil Nesan, Domestic work, Tamil diaspora, Sex industry, Tamil Eelam, Sex worker
Sex workers and advocacy groups fear World Cup crackdown
Cape Town :: South Africa | 13 days ago
Credibility Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone’s throw from one of the World Cup stadiums she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex. “The World Cup will be good for business,” said the 48-year-old. Her work brings the risk...
Tags: world cup, sex worker, advocacy groups, Marlise Richter, South Africa, Cape Town, Human sexuality, Sex trade, Prostitution, Sex workers rights, Social Issues
The other belles de nos jours
London :: United Kingdom | 14 days ago
Credibility But she’s far from the only one to be highly educated Steven Swinford and Helen Croydon As a highly intelligent child brought up by a single mother of modest means, Anna was determined to succeed. She won a scholarship to an independent school and then...
Tags: Belle de Jour, Dr Brooke Magnanti, sex workers, Anna, Dr Suzanne Jenkins, education escorts, United Kingdom, London, Escort agency, Call girl, Sex worker, Sex industry, Prostitution, Sex trade, Social Issues
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