Italy:
Sex tourism surge
Annoying,
ill-mannered, unable to learn few words in a language
different from their own and with a decisive bias for
pizza and spaghettis that they always prefer to any
other local cuisine: indeed, Italians are the worst
travellers around the world.
1-8-2007
British bobbies bust 'sex slaves'
Police have swooped on a suspected
brothel in Cheltenham. Officers took two women into
custody after the raid. At least one is believed to have
been smuggled into the country to work in the sex trade.
1-8-2007
Child prostitution decreasing in Bulgaria
"In 2005, 521 cases of underage girls who
prostitute were registered, while the number in 2006 was
308," the Ministry of the Interior's Rumen Petkov told
the National Assembly during the regular parliamentary
control. 2-7-2007
Scotland: Vice girls held after raid on brothel
Two illegal immigrants were found working
as prostitutes after police swooped on a brothel in a
Leith waterfront flat.
16-5-2007
Bulgarian prostitution ring bust in Norway
A series of police raids on Tuesday
resulted in ten arrests in a Bulgarian prostitution
ring. One of the ten arrested has been charged with
human trafficking, Oslo police said in a press release.
16-5-2007
Norway to criminalise buying sex
Norway's ruling Labour Party voted to ban
the purchase of sex on Sunday in an attempt to stop
prostitution by targeting those who buy it rather than
those who sell it, officials said.
12-5-2007
Macedonia: 15-year-old girl forced to prostitution
A 15-year-old girl was saved from the
claws of a mobster from Tetovo area, who was forcing her
to provide prostitution services, and another six
underage girls were uncovered during police inspection
in Tetovo and its surrounding.
12-5-2007
Prostitution laws in Bulgaria change
In
early March, Parliament started a process that will
spell the end of the controversial Vanko 1 Amendment to
the Penal Code dealing with crimes related to
prostitution. 20-4-2007
Child prostitution flourishes in Ukraine
Juan Miguel Petit, the Commission's
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography reported that the
flourishing of child prostitution and trafficking of
children are the great problems in Ukraine.
20-4-2007
Czech Republic: Prostitution ban is constitutional
A Czech court
ruling giving towns the power to limit prostitution in
public places is being knocked by municipalites as a
Band-Aid approach to a serious problem that is still not
properly addressed by law. Sex for sale, long visible in
border towns serving German and Austrian clients, has
largely moved indoors but remains as lucrative as ever
for brothels, they say.
20-4-2007
Spain breaks up prostitution ring with Russian sex-slaves
Police in Spain
has broken up an international criminal ring which dealt
in trafficking women from Russia and forcing them to
become prostitutes, a local police official has
confirmed. 20-4-2007
Britian: Anti-prostitution strategy to offer counselling or court
Street workers are to
be given bespoke counselling and help to find
alternative lifestyles as part of a tough
anti-prostitution strategy that is being piloted by the
Home Office. 20-4-2007
Increasing number of Bosnian women fall victim to trafficking
The number of
victims of human trafficking on territory of
Bosnia-Herzegovina has been falling over recent years,
but the share of female citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina
falling victim to this crime is on the rise, Bosnian
state co-ordinator of efforts aimed at countering human
trafficking said earlier this week.
20-4-2007
Click for sex: Irish law powerless against the rise of online prostitution
Sandra is 21,
blonde and speaks English and German. She describes her
interests as meeting new people, horse riding and
dancing. The attractive Czech national also charges ?250
for an hour's sex. 18-3-2007
Spain is not ready to legalise prostitution
Proposals to go some way towards
legalising prostitution were rejected on Tuesday.
18-3-2007
Brothel discounts 'matinee sex' for pensioners
A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalise
on the growing number of pensioners interested in
"matinee" sex by offering them a 50 percent discount
during the afternoon hours.
18-3-2007
Novi Pazar - hotbed of drugs and prostitution
Former Novi Pazar police members claim
the town has become the hotbed of drugs and
prostitution, B92 reports.
18-3-2007
UK: Sex girls return to town streets
Prostitution is once again thriving on
the streets of West Reading, with kerb-crawlers picking
up girls for sex on a regular basis.
18-3-2007
Britian: 'I was just defending sex slave'
A man accused of robbing brothels in
Surbiton, New Malden and across south London claims he
was trying to stop Albanian gangsters forcing a young
Asian girl into prostitution.
18-3-2007
Bulgaria's investigators against draft on prostitution
Bulgaria's Investigation Services do not
support the bill on prostitution's legalization, which
is in the making, the Deputy Director Rumen Georgiev
said at a press conference on Wednesday.
18-3-2007
Ireland: Judge strikes out prostitution case against tragic teen
A prosecution against a
young woman, who was arrested for allegedly engaging in
prostitution while her mother and six-year-old sister
were present, was today struck out by a judge, who
described the case as "one of the saddest I have dealt
with". 18-3-2007
