Violent clients, police harassment, and stigma are just some of the main reasons sex workers and the NGOs that collaborate with them are fighting for the South African government to decriminalise the trade. Sex work has been criminalised in South…
Police smash sex crime gang, arrest six (Punch)
European police have arrested six suspected members of a Finnish-led gang who trafficked women for sex, seizing almost three million euros in assets in four countries, officials said Wednesday. The operation code-named “Webmaster” also shut down 16 websites advertising sexual…
*Lagos and the menace of articulated vehicles (Nation)* Possession order: Lagos residents protest Supreme Court’s judgement (NewTelegraph)
Lagos and the menace of articulated vehicles (Nation) The menace of articulated vehicles parked indiscriminately on Lagos roads and obstructing the free flow of traffic has now become the new identity of Lagos. Hardly can one move around Lagos without…
Sex workers to go on strike to demand decriminalisation and full workers’ rights (Metro)
Thousands of prostitutes, escorts, strippers, porn stars and phone-sex workers are set to go on strike on International Women’s Day. They are marching to demand decriminalisation and are calling for the Government to improve their working conditions – by making…
Decriminalise sex work to protect us from crime – prostitutes (Guardian)
Prostitution should be decriminalised in the UK to make it safer for vulnerable women, a sex worker organisation has said. The English Collective of Prostitutes is calling for the removal of laws relating to consensual adult sexual behaviour, arguing that…
Prostitutes threaten to starve policemen of sex over incessant arrests (Punch)
Sex workers in Anambra State have threatened to starve policemen who patronise them over alleged harassment and arrest of their colleagues in major cities of the state. One of the sex workers, simply identified as Kaamsi, who claimed to be…
Oba’s Curse: Come and take your pubic hairs, pants in our shrines – Native doctors beg victims of sex slavery (Vanguard)
For those, who doubted the efficacy of the curse on human traffickers by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11, the calls on trafficked girls to come and take their pubic hairs and pants from shrines are indeed a direct…