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February 2005: Prostitution |
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02-Feb-05 | Vice girl who quit streets escapes jail term | The Scotsman Alan McEwen |
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Edinburgh Karen Weaver, an Edinburgh prostitute who quit the streets was given a six month probation order by the courts. Weaver was the first Scottish prostitute to have Anti-social Behavior Order taken out against her. |
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03-Feb-05 | Teen prostitute released into care home | TCM |
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Dublin 17 year old heroin addicted prostitute |
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| http://breaking.tcm.ie/story.asp?j=130648248&p=y3x648944&n=130649043&x= | ||||
 | 10-Feb-05 | Lottery denies Samaritans 'for neglecting minorities' | Times Andrew Norfolk |
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| Grant of £300,000 from the Big Lottery Fund given to UK Network of Sex Work Projects http://www.nswp.org/home.html | ||||
| http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1477569,00.html | ||||
| 10-Feb-05 | Migrant women forced into cheap sex trade | Guardian Rosie Cowan |
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| Surge in rough, unprotected sex. East European prostitutes in London live in fear of violent pimps - police comment | ||||
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| 13-Feb-05 | London officials fight prostitution phone-booth cards | Wall Street Journal David Pringle |
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London Westminster City Council asking phone companies to disallow incoming calls to phone booths. |
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| 15-Feb-05 | The secret life of the sex trade |
Yorkshire Post Sheena Hastings |
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Interview with Teela Sanders (Leeds University) who spent 10 months studying the indoor sex trade for a PhD thesis - book "Sex Work - A Risky Business". Estimated 80,000 women working in the £770m-a-year sex trade in Britain, the majority work indoors – licensed saunas, massage parlours, brothels, their own homes, or as escorts. Sanders believes Americans have a much better understanding of how the indoor sex trade works. In the UK, legislation is generally targeting at street prostitutes although they are in the minority. Sander's research deals with the women's motivation, how they protect themselves from harm and the emotional compartmentalizing of their work. 60 % of the 55 women she interviewed were single mothers. Sanders's concludes that sex workers are not all as deviant as people think and supports decriminalisation of prostitution. She believes the commercial sex industry should be regulated by the state and that tolerance zones are a step forward. |
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| 16-Feb-05 | City to host meeting on sex trade | Edinburgh Evening News | |
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Edinburgh Announcement of "Unfair Trade: Prostitution and the Sex Industry in Scotland" to be held in Edinburgh on March 10. Organised by Edinburgh City Council and Zero Tolerance, the campaign opposing violence against women and children. Topics to be dealt with included tolerance zones, international trafficking and public policy. |
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20-Feb-05 | Confessions of the world's most successful madam | Telegraph Andrew Alderson |
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| Interview with Margaret McDonald after her release from prison. Former escort turned "madam" | ||||
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22-Feb-05 | Red-Light trade threatens to get green light | Bournefree News Henry Walls |
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Boscombe Salvation Army plans for prostitute Drop-in Centre. Protestors want more suitable location. |
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22-Feb-05 | Prostitute centre proposal causes outrage | Bournefree News Amy Louise Funston |
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| http://snap.bournemouth.ac.uk/?docId=9405/ | ||||
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23-Feb-05 | Helping those exploited for sex | London Bulletin | |
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24-Feb-05 | Teen charged with prostitution remanded into custody | Ireland Online |
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Dublin 17 year old heroin addicted prostitute. Broke conditions of her bail. |
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25-Feb-05 | Red-light shame of deputy head | Yorkshire Post Emma Dunlop |
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Owston Ferry John Hurst, deputy head of St Martin's CoE Primary School convicted of kerb-crawling |
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26-Feb-05 | Runaways 'vanish off the radar' | ic Scotland | |
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