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PROSTITUTION 2006 United Kingdom Also see: United Kingdom 2006: Trafficking |
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Note: The Home Office estimates there are 80,000 prostitutes in the UK, over half under age 25. |
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| Jan 2006 |
A Coordinated Prostitution Strategy and a summary of responses to Paying the Price (link is to large PDF file) |
British Home Office | |
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Home Office 80 pages - Government Proposals |
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| http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/ProstitutionStrategy.pdf?view=Binary | |||
| 10-Jan-06 | Lifeline for the children forced into sex | Yorkshire Post |
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Leeds Genesis is an organisation for women who are involved with prostitution, or at risk of becoming involved, or who want to escape it. |
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| http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=179758101 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 27-Jan-06 | Call to legalise prostitution | icScotland | |
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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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Writing in the British Medical Journal, healthcare researcher Petra Boynton and substance use expert Linda Cusick claim that sex worker's health will be endangered by the UK government's plans to cut street prostitution. See: "Sex Workers to Pay the Price" |
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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 said that prostitution should be legalised in order to protect sex workers from assault, exploitation and drug dependency as well as help prevent child prostitution, people trafficking and slavery. | |||
| http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,1696433,00.html?gusrc=rss | |||
| FEBRUARY |
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| 04-Feb-06 | Father of two jailed for 15 years over vice-girl murder |
Yorkshire Post Paul Whitehouse |
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Ronald Beardmore, married father of two, admitted beating young prostitute, Rebecca Stephenson (age 19), to death and hiding her body. Beardmore visited a lap dancing club before being seen with the victim. (Also see: Man on prostitute murder charge (BBC News -http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/4160964.stm) |
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| http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1340117 | |||
| MARCH |
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| 24-Mar-06 | Guilty plea of brothel brothers | Northern Echo | |
| Darlington brothel raided. 6 Thai prostitutes were deported. Mark Cass pleaded guilty to people trafficking within the UK for purposes of prostitution, living off earnings of prostitution and controlling prostitution for gain. Daniel Cass pleaded guilty to keeping a brothel used for prostitution. Sentencing April 10. Police intend to seize assets. | |||
| http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=189062351 | |||
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