Sex and Soccer: The World Cup vice trade

October 16, 2009 — Updated 1701 GMT (0101 HKT)
By Chris Murphy
For CNN
(CNN) — The beginning of the World Cup in South Africa next June kicks-off a festival of football on the pitch, but there are a wealth of issues for the host country to tackle off the field too.
Up to half-a-million fans are expected to [...]

RI: Full House OKs ban on indoor prostitution

11:29 AM EDT on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lynn Arditi, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution Wednesday night, paving the way for a final debate on the Senate floor Thursday.
The bill’s passage followed an hour of impassioned debate from both sides of the issue. [...]

UK: Have sex traffic levels been exaggerated?

The Guardian newspaper has said that the problem of sex trafficking has been exaggerated and that the number of people who have been brought into the UK and forced against their will into prostitution is much smaller than claimed.
Jeremy Paxman talks to former minister for Europe, Dennis McShane, and Nikki Adams, of the English Collective [...]

UK: A bad bill for sex workers

A lack of trafficking evidence highlights the flaws in a policing and crime bill that fails to distinguish between types of sex work
Elizabeth Pisani
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 October 2009 10.00 BST
Last night, I went to a play about sex trafficking at the Arcola theatre. The programme notes: “While elements of It Felt Empty When the Heart [...]

Prostitution debate rages worldwide

Natalie Alcoba, National Post
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
A prostitute in Amsterdam’s red light district. The debate around legalizing the sex trade rages in many countries around the world, including Canada. – Anoek de Groot/AFP/Getty Images
One of the latest battlegrounds for the highly charged issue of prostitution – is it violence, is it a job? – is [...]

Lessons from a Mexican Brothel

by Patty Kelly on June 16, 2009
On a chilly March morning, my friend Abraham and I head out by car from Washington, D.C. to rural Virginia to do some exploring. Visiting from Mexico City, Abraham has been to New York City many times. But large cities can give a visitor the wrong idea about a [...]

Workers’ safety at risk: lawyer

Natalie Alcoba, National Post Published: Wednesday, October 07, 2009
In a landmark case, sex trade workers in Ontario have launched a constitutional challenge of Canada’s prostitution laws, arguing that they deprive them …
Women who have worked the risky sex trade have launched a constitutional challenge against Canada’s prostitution laws, arguing that decriminalizing some elements will [...]

CA: David Asper: Why turn prostitutes into criminals?

Posted: October 08, 2009, 1:00 PM by Chris Selley
David Asper
With our prostitution laws being challenged in the courts, moral questions about the world’s oldest profession are being debated in Canada.
And not for the first time.
In the mid 1980s, the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution — known as the Fraser Committee — extensively studied Canada’s [...]

Scotland: Should prostitution be given the red light?

Published on 20 Sep 2009
Plans are afoot to make it a crime to buy sex in Scotland. Is this the way forward? Ahead of a major debate on the proposal, we present five spirited arguments
The feminist campaigner
By Julie bindel
The laws on prostitution are not working. Currently, women are criminalised, making it more difficult to leave [...]

Legal Prostitution Under Pressure in Rhode Island

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
By SIMMI AUJLA and JENNIFER LEVITZ
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island has a long tradition of going its own way. Founded by religious outcasts, it was the last of the original 13 colonies to join the union and the state mascot, which sits atop the State House, is a bronze figure named the [...]