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		<title>Buying sex in German Homes for the Elderly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 19 (This appeared in a Swedish publication. In Sweden, it is a crime to purchase sex. This was translated from Swedish to English by Google Chrome) In Germany, prostitution is permitted since 2002. Disabled people who buy sex could not expect compensation from the insurance fund, unlike in the Netherlands where prostitution is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=2007&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns for Sex Workers Amid Serial Killer Investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex workers are being advised to use the buddy system so that someone knows where they are. Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011 &#124; Updated 3:12 PM EDTBy Chris Glorioso The investigation into a suspected serial killer who may have preyed on prostitutes, dumping their bodies near beaches on Long Island, has spawned new warnings for sex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal prostitution would be safer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Akst Thursday, April 14, 2011 &#8211; Updated 2 days ago Remember Chandra Levy? How about Natalee Holloway? Nothing is more effective at triggering a media frenzy than the disappearance of an attractive young white woman. That’s what happened when Levy, a Washington intern, vanished in 2001 and Holloway disappeared in Aruba four years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1995&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling good about feeling bad… A Global Review of Evaluation in Anti-Trafficking Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This research explores and assesses the evaluation of anti-trafficking policies and programmes worldwide, including three international, two regional and nine national anti-trafficking initiatives. It highlights common themes and emerging patterns between a range of approaches to evaluation in this sector and finds overwhelmingly that anti-trafficking initiatives are not being sufficiently evaluated, impeding the effectiveness of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1990&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEX WORKER GROUPS RESPOND TO LONG ISLAND MURDERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Friday, April 8, 2011 Contact: Dylan Wolf, SWANK, 347-748-9163, swank@riseup.net Sarah Jenny Bleviss, SWOP-NYC, 347-841-4908, swop.nyc@gmail.com New York &#8211; Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK) and Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC (SWOP-NYC) are dismayed that four more bodies were discovered on Long Island earlier this week. Police believe that a serial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1988&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SA: Blow for rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zweli Mokgata Thursday, 17 Mar 2011 Sex workers are protected by one law but can be prosecuted under another. After a recent court ruling, sex workers now enjoy protection under the Labour Relations Act. However, they can still be prosecuted under the Sexual Offences Act for plying their trade. The case that brought about this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1984&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia sets age limit for foreign husbands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambodia sets age limit for foreign husbands PHNOM PENH, March 16, 2011 (AFP) &#8211; Male foreigners over the age of 50 have been outlawed from marrying Cambodian women in the country under new rules designed to crack down on sham marriages and human trafficking, the government said Wednesday. Foreigners who earn less than $2,550 per [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1982&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India: Sex workers rue discrimination against their children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, March 5, DHNS: Sex workers in the country who are forced to live with ostracism have demanded a key legislative change to allow their children pursue higher studies using their mothers’ income. According to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act (ITPA), 1960, if anybody above 18 years uses the earnings of a sex-worker, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1979&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SWOP Las Vegas denounces Senator Reid’s call to eliminate Nevada brothels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sex Workers Outreach Project, Las Vegas denounces Senator Reid’s call to close down the legal prostitution businesses in Nevada . This move would put over a thousand people out of a job in the hopes of possibly attracting new businesses to Nevada who allegedly stay away because of the brothels. “To begin with, it’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1977&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NV: Reid takes on Old West, says time to ban brothels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By SANDRA CHEREB, Associated Press – Tue Feb 22, 5:27 pm ET CARSON CITY, Nev. – U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took aim at the world&#8217;s oldest profession Tuesday, telling state lawmakers the time has come to have an adult conversation about Nevada&#8217;s legal sex trade if the state hopes to succeed in the 21st century. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1741456&amp;post=1975&amp;subd=swoplv&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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