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36 People, Including 5 Women, Arrested For Sex Trade In Noida: Police
Thirty-six people, including five women, have been arrested from two hotels in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, over alleged illegal sex trade and for defying restrictions imposed due to COVID-19, police said on Thursday.
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Rights Body Seeks Report On Policies Over Sex Trade In Kolkata's Sonagachi
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday sought a report from the chief secretary of the West Bengal government on the policies framed to prevent sex trade at Asia's largest red-light area, Sonagachi in West Bengal.
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18 Arrested For Alleged Involvement In Illegal Sex Trade In UP Spa: Police
Eighteen people, including seven women, have been arrested for alleged involvement in illegal sex trade in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Tuesday.
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15 Including 5 Foreigners Arrested From Gurgaon Spa For Sex Trade
The city police today arrested 15 people, including five foreigners, from a spa centre at sector 29 market here for their alleged involvement in sex trade.
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German Police Crack Down On Suspected Thai Prostitution Ring
German authorities searched 62 brothels, offices and homes in several federal states and arrested seven people on Wednesday in a crackdown on suspected human trafficking in connection with a Thai prostitution ring, prosecutors said.
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Drop In Sex Trafficking Cases May Mask Real Picture, Say Experts
Mumbai: India has seen a 70 per cent drop in cases filed under an anti-trafficking law between 2001 and 2015, which experts attribute to a lack of reporting of the crime and more sex workers moving out of brothels to escape police detection among other factors. According to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of case...
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How This Enterprise Helps Former Sex Workers Take Charge Of Their Lives
Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...
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An NGO Is Using X-ray Test To Save Teenagers From Getting Into Sex Trade
Kolkata: In a bid to stop adolescent and teenage girls from entering prostitution, a sex workers’ organisation is using X-ray test as a tool to determine the age of the girls who are about to join flesh trade. The idea of using X-ray is to stop underage girls from getting into the trade is being conducted across Bengal by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya...
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Sex Racket Allegedly Run On Social Media Busted In Jammu, 20 Detained
A sex racket, allegedly being run with the help of social media, has been unearthed and about 20 people have been detained, police said today.
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Sex Racket Couple Trafficked 5000, Charged Under Organised Crime Law
Having trafficked over 5,000 women over 20 years and forced them into prostitution, a couple in Delhi built a sprawling empire until they ran out of luck this week.
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Sex Trade Less Visible, But Alive And Well In Northern Europe
Streetwalkers have largely disappeared from the sidewalks but sex work remains alive and well in northern Europe where laws criminalising the purchase of sex have been in place for years, illustrating the limits of legislation.
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Sex-Trafficked Pakistani Despairs of Justice, Shot in Legs
For the poor in Pakistan, justice is hard to obtain. For a young woman scarred by the sex trade, it is even harder.
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Agony of Pakistani Women Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade
Zunera once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, the bright-eyed Pakistani girl was tricked into prostitution in the UAE, beginning a four-year nightmare of cruelty, violence and rape.
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Delhi: Minor girl claims mother forced her into prostitution
A 13-year-old girl has approached police claiming that she had been raped by several men in west Delhi's Paschim Vihar area after her mother allegedly forced her into prostitution.
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China ministry urges sex-trade crackdown after criticism
China's public security ministry has ordered a nationwide crackdown on the sex trade following an expose of a city known for prostitution amid criticism authorities long turned a blind eye.
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36 People, Including 5 Women, Arrested For Sex Trade In Noida: Police
Thirty-six people, including five women, have been arrested from two hotels in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, over alleged illegal sex trade and for defying restrictions imposed due to COVID-19, police said on Thursday.
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Rights Body Seeks Report On Policies Over Sex Trade In Kolkata's Sonagachi
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday sought a report from the chief secretary of the West Bengal government on the policies framed to prevent sex trade at Asia's largest red-light area, Sonagachi in West Bengal.
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18 Arrested For Alleged Involvement In Illegal Sex Trade In UP Spa: Police
Eighteen people, including seven women, have been arrested for alleged involvement in illegal sex trade in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Tuesday.
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15 Including 5 Foreigners Arrested From Gurgaon Spa For Sex Trade
The city police today arrested 15 people, including five foreigners, from a spa centre at sector 29 market here for their alleged involvement in sex trade.
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German Police Crack Down On Suspected Thai Prostitution Ring
German authorities searched 62 brothels, offices and homes in several federal states and arrested seven people on Wednesday in a crackdown on suspected human trafficking in connection with a Thai prostitution ring, prosecutors said.
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Drop In Sex Trafficking Cases May Mask Real Picture, Say Experts
Mumbai: India has seen a 70 per cent drop in cases filed under an anti-trafficking law between 2001 and 2015, which experts attribute to a lack of reporting of the crime and more sex workers moving out of brothels to escape police detection among other factors. According to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of case...
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How This Enterprise Helps Former Sex Workers Take Charge Of Their Lives
Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...
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An NGO Is Using X-ray Test To Save Teenagers From Getting Into Sex Trade
Kolkata: In a bid to stop adolescent and teenage girls from entering prostitution, a sex workers’ organisation is using X-ray test as a tool to determine the age of the girls who are about to join flesh trade. The idea of using X-ray is to stop underage girls from getting into the trade is being conducted across Bengal by Durbar Mahila Samanwaya...
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Sex Racket Allegedly Run On Social Media Busted In Jammu, 20 Detained
A sex racket, allegedly being run with the help of social media, has been unearthed and about 20 people have been detained, police said today.
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Sex Racket Couple Trafficked 5000, Charged Under Organised Crime Law
Having trafficked over 5,000 women over 20 years and forced them into prostitution, a couple in Delhi built a sprawling empire until they ran out of luck this week.
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Sex Trade Less Visible, But Alive And Well In Northern Europe
Streetwalkers have largely disappeared from the sidewalks but sex work remains alive and well in northern Europe where laws criminalising the purchase of sex have been in place for years, illustrating the limits of legislation.
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Sex-Trafficked Pakistani Despairs of Justice, Shot in Legs
For the poor in Pakistan, justice is hard to obtain. For a young woman scarred by the sex trade, it is even harder.
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Agony of Pakistani Women Enslaved by Dubai Sex Trade
Zunera once dreamed of becoming a computer engineer. Instead, aged 16, the bright-eyed Pakistani girl was tricked into prostitution in the UAE, beginning a four-year nightmare of cruelty, violence and rape.
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Delhi: Minor girl claims mother forced her into prostitution
A 13-year-old girl has approached police claiming that she had been raped by several men in west Delhi's Paschim Vihar area after her mother allegedly forced her into prostitution.
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China ministry urges sex-trade crackdown after criticism
China's public security ministry has ordered a nationwide crackdown on the sex trade following an expose of a city known for prostitution amid criticism authorities long turned a blind eye.
