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
Spanish police arrest 66 in nationwide child sex sting
Spanish police have
arrested 66 people and seized more than 48 million
photographs or videos in a nationwide paedophilia sting,
the interior ministry announced this week.
1-8-2007
Viper - King of pornography discovered
Joseph Stedul After numerous unsuccessful
attempts by the police to discover the identity of
Viper, which is one of the largest internet distributors
of pornography, Javno.hr succeeds in finding out. A
person close to him, has not only revealed his identity,
but shown Viper's way of doing business, often at the
edge of the law. 2-7-2007
Cypres: Parties join forces to protect children from internet porn
Parliament has
instructed the Education Ministry to collaborate with
the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) and other
internet providers to filter all computers used by
students to stop them from accessing pornographic
content. 2-7-2007
Italian bishops insist on air time to rebut BBC program on sex abuse
Church officials must
have an opportunity to comment on-air if Italy's
state-run television airs a British documentary about
the priest sex abuse crisis, said an Italian bishops'
conference official. 28-5-2007
G8 needs private sector help to end child porn
World powers vowed on Thursday to
increase efforts to combat sexual exploitation of
children by Internet pornographers but said governments
alone could not stamp out the Web crime.
28-5-2007
Vibrator 'threat to national security'
A radio-controlled vibrator made in
Britain has been banned in Cyprus after it was branded a
threat to national security.
12-5-2007
Greece: Porn DVD freebies too blue for prosecutor
Newspapers and magazines that give away
pornographic DVDs could soon be removed from kiosks,
following a decision by Supreme Court prosecutor Giorgos
Sanidas who has asked his colleagues to clamp down on
the practice. 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
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
Spain is not ready to legalise prostitution
Proposals to go some way towards
legalising prostitution were rejected on Tuesday.
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
Bosnian Muslim law allows child pornography
Bosnia,
shocked by revelations that it is not
illegal to possess child pornography, could legislate if the legal
profession takes the initiative. 18-3-2007
10 percent of Japanese men in their 40s still virgins
Haruka is a
38-year-old temporary employment agency worker. She met
her 41-year-old boyfriend through an online matchmaking
site. Judging by his e-mail, he seemed to be kind and
was certainly mature. 17-7-2006
'Clean' Nagano's dark, dirty secret: AIDS
"Among Japan's 47 prefectures, Nagano is
a rarity in that its public morals laws and ordinances
prohibit sex businesses like 'soaplands' and 'fashion
health' salons," the unnamed "pink" journalist tells the
Japanese weekly Shukan Shincho.
17-7-2006
The 'pink parlors' of Lhasa
Once a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage
destination, the Tibetan capital Lhasa is rapidly
turning into a hot spot of 'pink parlours' where flesh
trade thrives under China's modernisation drive, a US
couple says. 17-7-2006
