Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi KAMPALA, Dec 3, 2010 (IPS) – Sex workers, among the populations most at risk of HIV infection in Uganda, say they are yet to realise their right to health. Sex workers say they have been left out of national HIV prevention programmes and have [...]
TAIWAN: Debate Far from Over On Decriminalisation of Sex Trade
November 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth TAIPEI, Nov 22, 2010 (IPS) – The Taiwanese government’s plans to partially decriminalise the sex trade has revived deep divisions within society, including between advocacy groups who stress the need for equal treatment and ‘autonomy’ for sex workers and those worried about the impact of [...]
Mexico’s New War: Sex Trafficking
October 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA website Read the original article on the COHA site. by COHA Research Associate Melissa Graham The “War on Drugs” as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting [...]
CHINA: A Parade Less, A Step Forward
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kit Gillet BEIJING, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Understanding that sex workers have rights too may still be some way off in China, but the government’s decision to stop police from parading them in public to humiliate them appears to reflect changing public attitudes toward those in [...]
CAMBODIA: Informal Sex Trade Threatens to Undercut Gains in HIV
July 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Irwin Loy PHNOM PENH, Jul 20, 2010 (IPS) – On a muggy evening, a handful of men in suits were quickly getting drunk in a beer garden here in the Cambodian capital. One man rested his hand on the thigh of a slender woman sitting uncomfortably in [...]
RIGHTS: Iceland Wakes Up to Trafficking for Sex Work
May 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, May 1 (IPS) – It took the conviction of five Lithuanian men in March, on charges of bringing a 19-year-old girl into Iceland for sex work, before this country truly woke up to the reality of trafficking. In what became Iceland’s first convictions for trafficking, the [...]
SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers – Senator
November 12, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Nov 12 (IPS) – It is one of the world’s oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet’s nest when she publicly challenged a [...]
PHILIPPINES: Younger Prey in the World’s Oldest Trade
November 9, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stella A. Estremera* DAVAO CITY, Philippines , Nov 9 (IPS) – At 14, Ann is too young to be worrying about getting pregnant or acquiring AIDS. That is why she uses a condom whenever she has a customer. She has become so good at it that the latter ”does [...]
