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Amsterdam authorities switch off Red Lights

Amsterdam city council ordered escort services to obtain licenses within 6 weeks or shut down. It is one of the latest steps to tighten controls on legal prostitution.

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Anti-prostitution law makes South Koreans buy sex online

After the government launched a harsh anti-prostitution law in 2004 targeting brothels South Koreans are increasingly using new ways to buy sex especially on the Internet.

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America's 'anti-prostitution pledge' is hindering global HIV control efforts

In order to receive US funding for HIV prevention or control projects, recipient organizations must take a pledge that explicitly condemns prostitution. But such condemnation is not effective at helping to control the global HIV epidemic, say researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine.

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Trafficking of Rural Women, Children Increasing in China

The international aid group Save the Children says more of China's women and children are at risk of being sold into forced labor or prostitution. The group says the trend is being fueled by the mass migration from China's countryside to its cities, and by a growing gender imbalance.

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Dozens go on trial in Paris for baby trafficking

Dozens of people go on trial Monday for suspected roles in a network that recruited desperate pregnant women from Bulgaria, brought them to France and sold their newborns to childless couples.

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UK government is failing sex workers

The UK government is failing sex workers by continuing to promote discriminatory laws and practices, argue experts in this week's BMJ.

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Law Against Human Trafficking Urged for New York State

A coalition of women's and human rights advocates are pushing New York state legislators to quickly pass a law against human trafficking. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports advocates say the sex trade is a flourishing industry in the United States, and New York is a major port of entry.

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Arrest deters kerb crawlers from further prostitution activity

New research indicates that men arrested for buying sex from prostitutes are much less likely to continue their prostitution activity than clients of prostitutes not arrested for such behavior.

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British police identify 4th victim in prostitute killings

British police have identified the fourth of five women believed to have been victims of a serial killer targeting sex workers, as mourners gathered to pay tribute to the slain prostitutes.

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