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: A law which will protect women from exploitation

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UK news | The Guardian
Thursday 22 October 2009
Nick Davies follows a long tradition of saying that trafficking is not a big problem and so no action should be taken to deal with it. I have always been of the view that anyone coerced into selling their body experiences unacceptable abuse of their human rights. That [...]

UK: Sex trafficking is no illusion

Nick Davies argues that the problem of sex trafficking has been exaggerated. This is the last thing trafficked women need

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Rahila Gupta, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 October 2009 11.00 BST
An article on trafficking into the sex trade has been written by the investigative reporter Nick Davies, whose reputation will lend authority to it – although it [...]

UK: Trafficking: we can learn from victims

A report in today’s Guardian suggests sex trafficking has been exaggerated; but it must not be reduced to a numbers game
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Helen Bamber
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 October 2009 22.30 BST
Knowledge about the wider picture of trafficking can be accumulated only over time and gleaned from a detailed and dedicated approach to the cases of individual victims. [...]

UK: Sex trafficking: a futile war of statistics

The descent of a Newsnight discussion on the sex trade into a shouting match shows how difficult it is to debate the issue
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Denis MacShane
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 October 2009 16.30 BST
Anyone see the ding-dong between Jeremy Paxman and Denis MacShane on Newsnight? I was there. It was an utterly weird experience to be in the [...]

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 [...]

UK: Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution

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Nick Davies, The Guardian, Tuesday 20 October 2009
The UK’s biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.
The failure has [...]

LV: CLARK COUNTY: Anti-prostitution codes eyed

Oct. 09, 2009
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By SCOTT WYLAND
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
ACLU officials say new rules would be infringements
She sits at a slot machine beside a walkway, her legs crossed and her shiny black stilettos poking out for passers-by to see.
Dressed in jeans and a draping cotton top, Marcella could pass for a tourist absorbed in [...]

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 [...]