• Zimbabwe girls trade sex for food Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says. The aid agency says increasing poverty is leading girls as young as 12 to sell...
• Blocking access to child porn doesn't help victims, expert says Excerpt:
Compared to the pre-Internet age - which I'd would say is before the mid-1990s - child pornography was predominately a cottage industry and not very visible, but, obviously, the problem of...
• Globalization's ugly side: sex slavery The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening stench seeps into their clothes. A motherly woman accompanied by a kindly...
• From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade In Patpong, one of Bangkok's most notorious red-light districts, go-go girls count their livelihood by the number of sex tourists they entertain. "Three inches, three minutes, 3,000 baht ($87),"...
• Underage sex trial tests China's courts Excerpt: About a year ago, an incident made Weng'an, then an obscure county in southwestern province of Guizhou, infamous overnight. A 15-year-old schoolgirl was found dead in a local river....
• Woman accused in porn star prostitution ring A woman is accused in California of making more than $8.5 million from an online prostitution business that claimed to employ porn stars and fashion models.Read more
• Economic crisis hits Russian sex trade A popular joke among Russian oligarchs has one telling another, "I have bad news, I have lost $5 billion." The second replies, 'Well I have lost $7 billion. But the good news is that whores are back...
• Documentary examines U.S. child sex trade Filmmaker Libby Spears wanted to make a documentary about the sexual exploitation of kids in Asia and Latin America, but that changed when she discovered that child sex trafficking is a big problem...
• Scots police 'failing to tackle sex slave trade' POLICE in Scotland are failing to bring human traffickers to justice and protect the victims being forced to work as sex slaves, a damning new report says. The Scotsman can reveal the top-level...
• Russian military intelligence officer suspect in sex ring probe (RIA Novosti) - The main suspect in the sale of more than 130 women as sex slaves is a colonel from Russia's Foreign Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the head of the Military Investigations Service...
• South Africa: Top Durban businessmen have been linked to a child prostitution syndicate Top Durban businessmen have been linked to a child prostitution syndicate, after a newly formed provincial task team launched investigations into the city's child sex trade.
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• 60,000 children in South-East Asian sex trade IN A frightening statistic that is still creeping upwards, over 60,000 children in South-east Asia are being exploited in the multi-million-dollar world of sexual businesses and sex tourism, a...
• Crisis worsens sex trade: Sex in exchange for a tub of fish As the economy takes a turn for the worst, more and more rural women are driven to prostitution with some giving sexual favors in exchange for fish, rice, and even coffee.The Center for Women’s...
• Is Craigslist the world's biggest bordello? Catherine is a 35-year-old sex worker in San Francisco who relies on Craigslist to reduce the physical risks often faced by a woman in her line of work. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart discusses during...
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