Prostitution

Bangladesh to monitor TikTok after girls lured by traffickers
Surveillance begins on app users after a trafficking gang that lured girls into the sex trade in India was busted.
Published On 10 Jun 2021
US Supreme Court upholds curb on overseas AIDS funding
The court upheld rule that requires foreign affiliates of nonprofit groups to denounce prostitution and sex trafficking.
Published On 29 Jun 2020
US authorities demand Prince Andrew interview in Epstein case
US Justice Dept, duke’s lawyers dispute terms of an interview about his relationship with the late US sex trafficker.
Published On 9 Jun 2020
India’s sex workers fight for survival amid coronavirus lockdown
Overnight loss of income from core clientele plunges the marginalised group into depths of anxiety and deprivation.
Published On 13 Apr 2020

101 East investigates Indian villages where it is custom for parents to sell their young daughters for sex.

Poverty and unpredictable tourism industry forcing men on the east coast to send spouses into prostitution.

NGO Urban Light in Chiang Mai has reached 5,000 teenagers caught up in prostitution rackets in Thailand’s second city.

For girls and women from the Perna caste, entering the sex trade is a normal next step after marriage and childbirth.

Contrary to its idyllic image, Hawaii is a hub for the sex trafficking of girls and women.

Children are being trafficked into forced labour and sexual exploitation in large numbers from Assam state.

Many of the 7,000 sex workers in this Kolkata red-light district say they have no other options for survival.

While other states have legalised sex work, South Australia still has some of the most repressive laws on the books.

Transwoman combats tuberculosis, AIDS and a lifetime of abuse and social exclusion.

Workers protest after 2,000 forced to flee 200-year-old brothel due to alleged threats from ruling party activists.

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