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Twelve adults and five children suspected of child sex crimes and human trafficking have been arrested in Colombia in a joint operation with the United States.

• 15 октября 2014, 14:42

A former prostitute walked 500 miles across France to demand that the government make good on its promise to penalise clients ended her protest march in Paris.

• 13 октября 2014, 13:07

Canada's attorney general unveiled a law Wednesday that makes it legal to sell sex to individuals but illegal to buy it, after the high court struck down an anti-prostitution law.

• 05 июня 2014, 14:49

A New Zealand prostitute has won substantial damages for sexual harassment by a brothel owner, with sex workers hailing the decision as a landmark ruling that shows the country as a world leader in protecting their rights.

• 01 марта 2014, 10:43

French lawmakers on Saturday adopted a highly controversial provision in a bill that punishes clients of prostitutes amid fierce argument that the new measure will be counterproductive.

• 30 ноября 2013, 13:35

70 percent of the boys raised in the system end up in jail and 60 percent of girls turn to prostitution: Dariga Nazarbayeva.

• 24 июня 2013, 19:02

The US envoy to Belgium Tuesday denied "baseless accusations" that he trawled for prostitutes in a park, as the State Department hit out at charges top staff tried to hush up sex-and-drugs charges.

• 13 июня 2013, 10:00

International students studying in New Zealand, where prostitution is legal, have been told they are to be barred from working in the sex trade.

• 26 марта 2013, 12:07

Silvio Berlusconi hosted a "prostitution system" at his villa near Milan, where he paid women for sex with cash and favours.

• 05 марта 2013, 18:28

A prostitute who triggered a political scandal by claiming US Senator Robert Menendez paid her for sex has admitted she made up the allegations.

• 05 марта 2013, 16:47

The city of Amsterdam said Tuesday it will raise the legal age of prostitutes from 18 to 21 and announced plans to close brothels during the early morning hours in a bid to protect sex workers.

• 28 февраля 2013, 11:25

A hearing opens in a French court Monday in a case involving a high-end prostitution ring that was active during the Cannes Film Festival and possibly had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

• 22 октября 2012, 17:17

Vietnam will free about 900 sex workers next year from compulsory rehabilitation centres across the country, state media reported Thursday.

• 12 октября 2012, 13:44

Ten US military personnel involved in the prostitution scandal that overshadowed President Barack Obama's trip to a regional summit in April in Colombia have been punished but not dismissed.

• 21 июля 2012, 11:28

Aiken Adamdayev has already saved one girl who found herself a sexual slave in Turkey. He redeemed her from her “master” for $300.

• 28 июля 2011, 11:48