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Tajikistan moves to curb prostitution
The police
ministry wants to criminalise the sex industry,
while experts insist the root cause is poverty.
As the Tajik interior ministry announces tougher
penalties for prostitution, analysts say the
local sex industry is a product of poverty and
social
dislocation and will not
be easy to eradicate. Interior Minister
Mahmadnazar Salihov said his staff were
drafting a special bill that would
soon be sent to parliament.
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UAE: Selling immigrants into sex slavery
She came all the way from Eastern Europe
to treat her daughter's asthma. Instead, once in Dubai,
the 27-year-old Moldavian woman found out that she was
lured into the city to literally be sold as a sex slave.
20-8-2008
Russian officials define pornography
It seems that Russian officials have
finally learned to see the difference between erotica
and pornography. A draft law "Restricting the
Distribution of Erotic and Pornographic Products" gives
the previously non-existent [in Russia] legal definition
of pornography and limits the circulation of
pornographic products.
29-2-2008
Sex and the Muslim girl
There is
no way that Selin Tamtekin could be described as even
remotely low-life. Immaculate, groomed to perfection,
she walks towards me on perfectly unscuffed heels,
without a gleaming hair out of place or a single
microfibre of dust on her pristine white shirt.
14-11-2007
Russian internet users passive in child porn fight
On September 27 a round table "Russian
Internet against child pornography" took place at the
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The participants
marked a burst of violence against children in the
country in 2007, and also Russia's 2nd position in the
world concerning child porn spread.
2-10-2007
LGBT group accused of inciting prostitution in Turkey
Eighteen members of a
Turkish LGBT association which also represents
transvestites have been arrested in the city of Bursa
for "forming a gang to commit crimes, being an associate
with a gang, and inciting prostitution."
6-9-2007
Teen sex case in Turkey
Teenagers
are rarely prosecuted for having sex, but a 13-year-old
British girl has managed to put a 17-year old-German boy
behind bars in Turkey. The case has become a thorn in
German-Turkish relations.
30-8-2007
Russia names Israeli in human trafficking
An Israeli man was among three people
taken into custody by Russian security agents Tuesday in
Moscow on suspicion of selling women into prostitution.
21-5-2007
Modern-day comfort women face a hell on earth
While the Japanese continue to get the
blame for WWII enslavement, forcing women into sexual
bondage continues. 16-5-2007
Nine remanded to custody after swoop on prostitution network
Nine of the 13
members of a prostitution network arrested in Almerķa
province last week were remanded to custody in the
Acebuche provincial prison this weekend. They are seven
men and two women. 25-4-2007
Spain breaks up prostitution ring with Russian sex-slaves
Police in Spain
has broken up an international criminal ring which dealt
in trafficking women from Russia and forcing them to
become prostitutes, a local police official said
Saturday. 14-4-2007
Flourishing of child prostitution in Ukraine
Juan Miguel Petit, the Commission's
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography reported that the
flourishing of child prostitution and trafficking of
children are the great problems in Ukraine.
24-3-2007
'Sex shop' closed in Turkey
Locals in Kayseri were outraged by the
opening of a sex shop in the middle of downtown. The
Kayseri Melikşah Municipality has reached a decision to
close the shop after the reaction, and an improper
leasing contract was given as the reason to shut down
the store. 24-2-2007
Turkey: Minding the gap in child porn laws
The Turkish police welcomed a new cyber
crimes law pending at the Justice Ministry, pointing out
that the number of online child pornography-related
arrests peaked in 2006 and that gaps in the law have yet
to be eliminated. 23-1-2007
Boy's Town: Russian style
Homosexuals were rare species in Russia
some 10 years ago. Homosexual males met one another in
secrecy, they might be sent to prison because sodomy was
a punishable practice under the penal code effective at
the time. But things have changed dramatically. These
days it is trendy to be a gay in Russia. The "lavender
invasion" has reached the scale of an epidemic..
24-12-2006
Russian was operating child porn site in Cypress
A Cypress Court remanded in custody for
eight days a 33-year-old Russian suspected of
trafficking in child pornography.
22-11-2006
Turkey: Jojo TV broadcasts pornography instead of cartoon
Jojo TV, a channel
for kids broadcast on Digiturk, Turkish satellite TV,
mistakenly aired a pornographic film instead of a
cartoon program. 21-10-2006
Putin praises sexual prowess of Israeli president
Vladimir Putin's international image was
tainted today after it emerged he had let slip another
of his infamous remarks - this time praising the
president of Israel for alleged sex offences.
21-10-2006
Russian mayor wants prostitution legalized to fight extremism
The mayor of a
coal mining town in the Komi Republic of Russia is
asking the government to legalize prostitution with the
aim of arresting the increasing number of extremist
violence in the region.
18-9-2006
Sex and the mobile Russian
Besides giving the world vodka and tennis
ace Maria Sharapova, Russians are becoming famous for
things far removed, like having sex in a moving car.
8-9-2006
Ukraine appeals for action to stop human trafficking
Ukrainian
officials Wednesday warned that human trafficking
threatened to become a major problem for this ex-Soviet
republic, and appealed for more international efforts to
stop it. 8-9-2006
Reds in the bed - Stalin's sex drive exposed
He has been worshipped, feared, and even
denounced. But now the sexy side of Joseph Stalin is
being exposed in a controversial Russian film.
4-9-2006
Russian abuses apparatus in sex doll rafting race
A participant in the annual Sex Dolls
Rafting Tournament near St Petersburg was disqualified
in shame for "sexual abuse of apparatus". The event
attracted 400 athletes determined to tackle the choppy
course with nothing more than an inflatable partner for
buoyancy. 31-8-2006
Russian Deputies seek to limit sex on TV
Six United Russia deputies submitted
legislation to the State Duma on Monday that would
restrict erotic programming on television and ban
television ads for phone sex and sex-themed cell phone
messages. 5-7-2006
From Moscow with gay love
I was
the only American gay journalist to witness the
first-ever Russian Gay Pride Festival, held May 25
through May 27, in Moscow. The mayor of Moscow had
pronounced the festival a "degenerate" event.
24-6-2006
Ukrainian accused of forcing Russian woman into prostitution
A woman has
been arrested in Orlando for allegedly harboring an
illegal alien who she is accused of enslaving, beating
and forcing into prostitution.
11-6-2006
Studios for juvenile pornography in Baku
According to National coordinator of
Alliance of NGOs on the rights of the child in
Azerbaijan, Nabil Seidov, there are studious involved
with juvenile pornography in Baku.
11-6-2006
What's behind anti-gay program in Russia?
The capitalist city administration of
Moscow deployed massive police forces and worked
hand-in-glove with the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox
Church, ultra-nationalists similar to the Ku Klux Klan,
skinheads and other neo-fascists to violently crush the
first Russian Pride march on May 27.
6-6-2006
Sexual exploitation rising in Azerbaijan
For the last several years the number of
women transported to Azerbaijan for sexual exploitation
has grown. Azer Allahveranov, head of Migration Resource
Center of Azerbaijan (MRCA), and an expert for migration
affairs has said. 19-5-2006
Russia steps up fight against AIDS
Russian President Vladimir Putin has
ordered health officials to warn Russians about HIV and
has hugely increased the amount of money the country
spends on HIV prevention and treatment.
7-5-2006
Russian prostitution crackdown in Spain
Police said this week they had
arrested 100 people in a crackdown on a prostitution
ring which brought Russian women to Spain.
23-4-2006
Chechen PM in sauna sex scandal
His
public image as a devout Muslim warrior who frets about
the morals of Chechnya's peoplehas been carefully
constructed by spin doctors. But Ramzan Kadyrov,
Chechnya's pro-Moscow Prime Minister, has become
ensnared in an embarrassing sex scandal that has made
his loud moral preaching appear rather hollow.
5-4-2006
'Balzac' unfulfilling sex in the city of Moscow
At first glance, it is very much a Slavic
"Sex and the City." Four attractive, well-dressed
girlfriends meet at chic cafes to kvetch about life,
love and sex. 9-1-2006
Sex vs. Love in the USSR
"There is no sex in the USSR!" said an
ordinary Russian woman, a hotel clerk from Leningrad, 19
years ago. The sobering declaration was made during the
first video link with the United States, held in 1986.
12-12-2005
Russian woman pleads guilty to forcing niece into prostitution
A
Russian-American woman faces up to 21 months in prison
after pleading guilty to forcing her niece to work as a
prostitute. 12-12-2005
Russia: Lonely transsexual wants to become pregnant
Two years
ago, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper wrote about a
40-year-old man, Igor Sarkisov, who wanted to become
pregnant and have a baby. Unfortunately, the man could
not find a woman for having a normal family with her.
9-11-2005
Russian man arrested for a fake porn film
Police have detained a Moscow region
businessman who, became upset when his amorous advances
were rejected by a woman, created a porn movie
supposedly featuring the woman and threatened to turn it
over to her parents if she did not pay thousands of
dollars. 14-10-2005
Russia: Calls made for crack down on vice
Russia must take urgent measures to stem
a rapid growth in child pornography on the Internet and
child sex trafficking that makes the country a major
supplier for the global pedophilia market, Russian and
international experts warned on Monday.
29-9-2005
Turkmenistan: Prostitution on the rise
Poverty remains the driving-force behind
rising levels of prostitution in the energy-rich state
of Turkmenistan, where upwards of 44 percent of the
country's population reportedly lives on less than US $2
per day. 7-9-2005
Russian women driven to prostitution abroad
Driven by family poverty and low pay,
Katrina finally accepted a job offer as waitress at a
restaurant in Bangkok. The job turned out to mean
striptease and prostitution.
31-8-2005
Soviet ghosts haunt Kazakh AIDS policy
As midnight
approaches on Sina Street in Almaty, one
of Kazakhstan's main cities, groups of young
female sex workers stand in the
shadows by small hotels, giggling, swigging beer
from bottles and smoking.
31-8-2005
Russians abandon HIV-positive patients
Thousands of children born to
HIV-positive mothers are being abandoned, new data
shows. The women themselves face widespread
discrimination, even from doctors who often deny
treatment and betray confidentiality.
24-8-2005
Turkey: Porn cinema comes to an end
Perhaps the world's only porn cinema to
be located in a former parliamentary meeting place is to
be closed down in the southern Turkey city of Antakya,
reports said on Saturday.
16-8-2005
Azerbaijan passes anti-human trafficking law
The Azerbaijani parliament passed the Law
on Fighting Human Trafficking on Tuesday. The law is
expected to increase the efficiency of activities at
combating human trafficking in the country, said deputy
chair of the parliamentary commission on human rights.
30-6-2005
The Russian mob and human trafficking
From Himalayan villages to Eastern
European cities, people - especially women and girls -
are attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a
domestic servant, waitress or factory worker.
17-6-2005
FBI, Russian Interior Ministry seize Internet child porn group
In a joint
operation the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and
Russia's Interior Ministry seized a criminal group that
distributed pornography on the Internet, including child
porn, Interfax reported Tuesday. U.S. nationals were
among the group's customers.
17-6-2005
Human trafficking reamins a big business in Turkey
Ömer Aydin, deputy chief of a
police division specialized in combating smuggling and organized crime, noted that human trafficking
was an extremely lucrative business.
Should Russians who wed foreigners should be exiled?
Russians who marry foreigners could be exiled and stripped of
their citizenship under a bill being drafted by a group of members of
parliament, a deputy said Sunday.
Turkey
must fight human trafficking
Turkey is a transit and destination
country for women and children trafficked primarily for sexual exploitation, the
U.S. State Department said in its human trafficking report released
on June 1. The report claimed that some men, women, and children are
also trafficked for forced labor.
US urges 'greater' Tajik efforts to fight human trafficking
The
US embassy in Dushanbe said the embassy hailed Tajikistan's positive actions
in this sphere. The source noted that the US Department
of State anticipated the Tajik government's further cooperation in "eliminating human trafficking and
all forms of modern slavery".
22-Year-Old
Uzbek pretends to be 14, impregnates 11-year-old Russian girl
In May Russian
tabloids posted a story about a an 11-year-old girl from
Moscow who got pregnant from her 14-year old boyfriend. Further research
into this curious case revealed that the boyfriend was actually
a 22-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Tajikistan who pretended to be 14 to prevent
deportation to his home country.
One Russian man's naked ambition
Alexander Metyolkin is a man with a mission: to free
Russians from their sexual hang-ups. After 15 years of publishing
magazines with an emphasis on topless girls, he plans to open the country's
first museum of erotic art.
Russian reality show accused of prostitution and pimping
Russian MPs are demanding that the reality
show "Dom" (House) be banned from television and that its hosts
be imprisoned for up to three years, as they say
the show is a form of organized prostitution and pimping which seriously harms
the morals of Russia's
youngsters.
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