![Prostitution: France wants to punish clients [instead]](https://i2.wp.com/womennewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/prositution-news-observer-ap.jpeg?fit=512%2C285&ssl=1 "Prostitution: France wants to punish clients [instead]")
Sylvia Corbet – The News & Observer – Monday, 02 December 2013 (originally published 26 Nov) PARIS — France’s government is pushing one of Europe’s toughest laws against prostitution and sex trafficking, and other countries are watching closely. Advocates hope that a draft French law going to parliament Wednesday will help change long-held attitudes toward […]
![Three women rescued in dramatic raid on [UK] Hillfields ‘brothel’](https://i2.wp.com/womennewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/trafficking-coventry-telegraph.jpeg?fit=615%2C409&ssl=1 "Houses with cars parked in front")
Duncan Gibbons – Coventry Telegraph – Wednesday, 06 November 2013 (originally published 01 Nov) Three women were rescued by police in a dramatic raid on a suspected brothel in Coventry. Three women were rescued by police in a dramatic raid on a suspected brothel in Coventry. Police believe the women, all from Eastern Europe, were […]
WNN Breaking (WNN/EN) Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA PACIFIC: In the 1980s, the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was the largest U.S. military base outside of the U.S. with an estimated 500 million USD generated by the brothels surrounding it. Local traffickers and brothel owners engaged in the business of buying and selling women […]
IRIN – Friday, 25 May 2012 (originally published 21 May) TEL AVIV, 21 May 2012 (IRIN) – The arrest and imprisonment earlier this month of the head of Israel’s biggest trafficking ring of young women will deter some of those involved in sex slavery, but former victims and activists say much more needs to be […]
Eleanor Goldberg – Huffington Post – Monday, 05 December 2011 (originally posted 30 Nov) This story is part of a series celebrating HIV/AIDS activists in honor of Thursday’s World AIDS Day. Her house has been burned down. She’s had her car jacked. Her daughter was kidnapped, drugged and raped. But still, sex trafficking survivor Somaly […]
