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January 2006: Prostitution
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Jan 2006 | A Coordinated Prostitution Strategy and a summary of responses to Paying the Price | British Home Office | |
| Home Office: 80 pages - Government Proposals | ||||
| http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/ProstitutionStrategy.pdf?view=Binary ( PDF file) | ||||
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10-Jan-06 | Lifeline for the children forced into sex | Yorkshire Post |
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| Genesis is an organisation for women who are involved with prostitution, or at risk of becoming involved, or who want to escape it. | ||||
| http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=179758101 | ||||
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11-Jan-06 |
Car park killing: Murder shocks city's vice girl community |
Peterborough Today |
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| Police issuing warnings to prostitutes to protect themselves. | ||||
| http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=1309146 | ||||
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12-Jan-06 | Belfast's prostitution problem 'out of control': Call for action on complaints |
Belfast Telegraph Brian Hutton |
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| Statement: SDLP councillor Pat McCarthy | ||||
| http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=675544 | ||||
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15-Jan-06 | Men who pay for sex are 'as bad as child abusers' |
Observer Gaby Hinsliff |
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| Home office minister Fiona MacTaggart unveiled plans to protect prostitutes by targeting their clients. Details of plans given in article. | ||||
| http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1686864,00.html | ||||
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17-Jan-06 | New plan to permit small brothels | BBC News | |
| The government has confirmed that the law could be changed to allow two prostitutes and a receptionist or maid to work together legally in UK brothels. The Home Office also has plans to crack down on men who buy sex. The Home Office estimates that 80,000 women in Britain work as prostitutes, and half of those are under 25. | ||||
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4619098.stm | ||||
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18-Jan-06 | Controversy still rages over world's oldest profession | icBirmingham | |
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http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16598597&method=full&siteid= 50002&headline=controversy-still-rages-over-world-s-oldest-profession-name_page.html |
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18-Jan-06 | Eradicate the oldest oppression |
Guardian Julie Bindel |
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Opinion "In what other "job" are drug addiction, homelessness, rape and murder seen as occupational hazards? Few of the many women who have escaped the sex industry describe it as a profession - more paid abuse." |
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| http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1688909,00.html | ||||
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19-Jan-06 | ASBOs for prostitutes | Ulster Unionist Party | |
| Ulster Unionist MP, Lady Hermon has called for ASBOs to be used to cope with the rise in prostitution. Wants to ensure Northern Ireland is not left behind of the rest of the UK re: new proposals to deal with prostitution. | ||||
| http://www.uup.org/media/media_19_01_06_hermon_prostitutes.htm | ||||
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19-Jan-06 | British Labor Union Organizing Sex Industry Workers |
CNS News Kevin McCandless |
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| Case of phone sex worker Irene Everitt. GMB union convinced a London employment tribunal to rule that the woman had been unfairly dismissed. Home office estimates 80,000 prostitutes in the UK, over half under age 25. | ||||
| http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200601/FOR20060119c.html | ||||
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20-Jan-06 | I feel dirty and used - but what else would I do? | Belfast Telegraph | |
| Claire McNeilly interview with Belfast prostitute | ||||
| http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/features/story.jsp?story=676453 | ||||
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21-Jan-06 | It's not just on the streets that the tide of prostitution must be turned back |
Guardian Katharine Viner |
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Opinion "...the impact of prostitution goes far wider than kerb crawlers and red-light districts. Its influence now permeates our culture, from music and the media to advertising and fashion, with the result that selling sex has become normalised in public life." |
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| http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1691589,00.html | ||||
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23-Jan-06 | Time to bring the sex trade out of the shadows |
Yorkshire Post Charlie Daniels |
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| Opinion re: overhaul of vice laws in UK. | ||||
| http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=181357921 | ||||
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23-Jan-06 | Why British men are rapists |
New Statesman Joan Smith |
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| "In the world of stag-night excess, lad mags and lap dancing, paying for sex is losing its stigma and more and more men do it. These "clients" are responsible for a grotesque crime, yet they get away scot-free." | ||||
| http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfilter.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200601230006 | ||||
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24-Jan-06 | MP urges ASBO use to tackle prostitution |
Belfast Telegraph Jonathan McCambridge |
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| Ulster Unionist MP, Lady Hermon has called for ASBOs to be used to cope with the rise in prostitution. | ||||
| http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=676882 | ||||
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25-Jan-06 | 'Strange' man seen outside home of stabbed legal chief |
Scotsman Alan McEwen |
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| Edinburgh law chief, Leslie Cumming brutally stabbed 10 times. | ||||
| http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=123142006 | ||||
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27-Jan-06 | Call to legalise prostitution | icScotland | |
| British Medical Journal | ||||
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http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/uk/tm_objectid=16632744&method=full&siteid= 50141&headline=call-to-legalise-prostitution-name_page.html |
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27-Jan-06 | Govt plans to cut street prostitution will endanger sex workers' health | Life Style Extra |
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| Healthcare researcher Petra Boynton and substance use expert Linda Cusick | ||||
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http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=QO2621999I&news_headline= govt_plans_to_cut_street_prostitution_will_endanger_sex_workers_health |
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27-Jan-06 | Legalising prostitution 'would protect sex workers' |
Guardian David Batty & agencies |
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| Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal | ||||
| http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,1696433,00.html?gusrc=rss | ||||
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28-Jan-06 | Aberdeen sex capital of Britain |
Daily Record Kizzy Taylor |
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16637230&method=full&siteid= 66633&headline=aberdeen-sex-capital-of-britain--name_page.html |
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