Iraq: Focus on boys trapped in commercial sex trade Hassan Feiraz,
a 16-year-old boy, has started a desperate new life
since being forced into the sex trade in Baghdad,
joining a growing number of adolescents soliciting in
Iraq under the threat of street gangs or the force of
poverty. 8-8-2005
Phuket's sex trade eyes Andamans Is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the
fast lane to becoming the next best alternative to
Phuket's sex industry?
7-8-2005
Shanghai expected to build memorial for wartime sex slaves After Japan's
non-governmental archives on comfort women opened on
Aug. 1 in Tokyo, the first comfort women memorial in
China's mainland is expected to be built in Shanghai.
7-8-2005
Jaipur police bust porn MMS racket Eight mobile phone dealers have been
arrested in Jaipur for running a pornographic MMS
(Multimedia Messaging Service) racket.
7-8-2005
Brides of Islam It was a tense time
for staff at the Australian embassy in Lebanon. A
14-year-old girl had shown up on the doorstep alone,
with her suitcases. Through tears, she said she wanted
to return home to Australia to her mother, after
effectively being imprisoned at the home of her new
husband's family. 6-8-2005
Comfort women may forgive but not forget For a decade now , Song Shin Do, 84, the
only Korean former comfort woman who lives in Japan, has
refused monetary compensation but fought bitterly for an
apology from the Japanese government, taking every
defeat handed down at the courts with a poignant
stoicism that has won her grudging admiration.
6-8-2005
Japan recruits romantic otaku geeks to revive economy Innocent
love, Mainichi claims, could restore Japan's economy to
the heights it reached until coming to a grinding halt
in the 1990s. Japan's "pure love" boom has stirred up
the murky marketplace like little else to have come onto
the horizon in recent years, with the promise of
trillions of yen. 6-8-2005
China: Mother sells teen girl's virginity for 10,000 yuan Prosecutors in
Shanghai have charged the owner of a small beauty parlor
in Jiangsu Province with selling her daughter's
virginity and then forcing the 17-year-old girl to have
sex with the businessman who paid to deflower her.
6-8-2005
Mobile porn craze in Cambodia A teenage craze for sending doctored
naked images of female celebrities to each other by
mobile phones has led to a demand by a Cambodian
minister for government action against pornography.
6-8-2005
Condom vending machines increasing sexual assaults on women? The recent
publication of the UN report shows staggering figures on
the spread of AIDS and HIV world wide, which also
included India. The Indian Government thought it was
taking a very positive step by installing 'Anytime
Condom'. 6-8-2005
