You hear her high heeled footsteps on the pavement.
She’s in her best clothes. A shimmery dupatta is draped loosely over her head. At corners she stops. She stops and waits. People see the look in her eyes. The seductive glimmer. Her red lips curl into a smile. She winks at her contenders. Continue reading Tales From The Dark Side: The Secret Life of Prostitutes in Pakistan →
Landmark Supreme Court ruling says bans on solicitation and brothels violated sex workers’ right to safety.
Canada’s top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution, declaring that existing laws violated sex workers’ right to safety.
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down bans on brothels, street solicitation, and living on the earnings of prostitution in a unanimous 9-0 decision on Friday, and gave the Canadian government one year to re-write the country’s prostitution laws.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/12/canada-lifts-all-restrictions-prostitution-2013122015318412319.html
Police search for the man who allegedly forced his two wives into prostitution.
Pakistan – FAISALABAD: Seven girls, one chained, were recovered from a house in street no 5 of Sakhi Sarwarabad area on Monday after the mother of one of the girls and local residents broke into the house and released them. …
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Feminists split over judicial decision overturning some legal restraints on prostitution
– ANTONIA ZERBISIAS
Canadian feminism is a bawdy house divided. In the aftermath of last month’s landmark court decision that lifts the barriers to free trade in the sex trade, women’s rights activists are facing off. They’re split over whether the ruling will make sex workers safer — or merely pump up profits for pimps and help organized crime to traffic women. …
Read more : The Star
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