Published: 27 December 2007
You’ve got that bloated post-Christmas feeling, brought on by too much food and too much time with your nearest and dearest. What to do? Some people go to the gym, some meet their mates and go to a football match, and some want nothing more than a bracing work-out with a teenage sex [...]
Laura Maria Agustin wants frank talk about migration and the sex trade
Kerry Howley | December 26, 2007
If you picked up, moved to Paris, and landed a job, what would you call yourself? Chances are, if you’re an American, you’d soon find yourself part of a colorful community of “expats.” If, while there, you hired an [...]
Friday December 28, 2007
The Guardian
Harriet Harman holds that a Swedish-style law against buying sex is necessary to stem demand for sex workers trafficked into Britain (Harman calls for prostitution ban, December 21). She was supported by former Europe minister Denis MacShane, who insisted there are 25,000 sex slaves in the UK. This is a [...]
One young woman shares the story of how she escaped from forced labor
By Grace Kahng
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From The Times
December 27, 2007
Outlawing prostitution will drive it underground
Human traffic
Sir, Commons Leader Harriet Harman wants to criminalise paying women for sex using the Criminal Justice Bill to outlaw prostitution (“Paying for sex may be made illegal”, report, Dec 21) .
Last Thursday’s Newsnight discussion failed to distinguish between prostitution on the one hand and human-trafficking [...]
December 27, 2007
by Julie Seabaugh
On the scene at the sex workers march
Only two are atop the Fremont Street Experience garage at the 7 p.m. meeting time, but both are wearing red in solidarity. By 7:30 the number has increased to seven, including organizer Susan Lopez, who also serves as assistant director of the [...]
SEX / Sex workers call for an end to violence and decriminalization of sex work
Brent Creelman / Capital Xtra / Tuesday, December 18, 2007
http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=1&STORY_ID=4073&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=1
Sex workers and supporters gathered across the world Dec 17, and they called for an end to violence against sex workers and the decriminalization of sex work.
In Ottawa, dozens of people marched [...]
Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/dec/07121811.html
LifeSiteNews.com
Tuesday December 18, 2007
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
VANCOUVER, December 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group calling itself the B.C. Coalition of Experiential Communities hopes the federal government will grant them a legal exemption from
prostitution laws so they can open a brothel in Vancouver’s east side in time for the Winter Olympics.
Susan Davis, spokeswoman for [...]
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Interview with Katrina Pacey, social justice attorney
VANCOUVER, Canada, Dec 18 (IPS) – Katrina Pacey is a lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver. Pivot is engaged in social justice work through legal reform in the inner city of Vancouver. Pacey is currently taking a case to the British Columbia Supreme Court, and eventually, the [...]
