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Pascal Mashaalani denies nudes
Lebanese
singer Pascal Mashaalani has denied allegations
that she appeared practically
nude
in her most recent music video "Itghairt Alai" (You
have changed). Pascal stated that she
considered the clip as a
shift in her
career in the right direction, adding that
the dress she wore was daring
but not inappropriate.
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Despite law, sex with minors goes unpunished in Israel
Last August, police
arrested Vadim Bartel, 41, on suspicion of engaging a
15-year old girl as a prostitute. The police caught him
red-handed, as he sent the girl to a client's home. The
client had requested "fresh meat." Bartel was accused of
pimping. 24-12-2006
Minors most likely victims of sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia
According to recent
studies, 60 percent of all sexual assault victims are
minors. Family members commit nearly one third of these
incidents. 24-12-2006
'Why atom bomb? End prostitution,' says Iranian Nobel laureate
Iran may be toying
with the idea of acquiring a nuclear weapon, but Nobel
laureate Shirin Ebadi argues that the money needed for
making an atom bomb can be better used for a more
pressing need - ending prostitution and sexual
trafficking of women. 26-11-2006
Court says Israel must register same-sex marriages
The Israeli
Supreme Court touched off a fresh controversy over gay
rights Tuesday when it ordered the government to
register same-sex marriages performed abroad.
26-11-2006
Five in Kuwait facing charges of prostitution
The Department of Foreign Affairs
yesterday endorsed the prosecution of five Filipino
workers in Kuwait who were arrested and accused of
involvement in a white slavery ring that had a
17-year-old Filipino domestic helper among its victims.
24-11-2006
Women more open than men in admitting sexual problems in Qatar
A recent survey
conducted in Qatar revealed that women are more candid
than men in discussing sexual problems in their married
life. 12-11-2006
Two Indian women escape after being forced into prostitution in Dubai
Two Indian women,
who were allegedly forced into prostitution in Sharjah,
have escaped from the clutches of their captors.
5-11-2006
Qatar: Nine women arrested for alleged involvement in prostitution
Nine Filipinas
have been arrested for alleged involvement in
prostitution, following a police complaint filed by
Philippine authorities on behalf of three women, who had
been tricked into prostitution.
5-11-2006
Sex traffickers target women in war-torn Iraq
Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in
Baghdad sold her off as a domestic worker in one of the
prosperous Gulf nations. Instead, she was forced into
the sex trade "I was a virgin and didn't understand what
sex was. I was told that they [the traffickers] were
going to get good money for my first night with an old
local man who paid for my virginity. He was aggressive
and hit me all the time," Mariam.
30-10-2006
Israel police abuzz over sex-toy theft
Israeli police said on Wednesday they
were on the lookout for 40 vibrators and a $200 dildo
after thieves plundered the automobile of a noted
sexologist in Tel Aviv.
21-10-2006
Police recommend charges against Israeli president in harassment probe
Wrapping up
a months-long sexual harassment investigation, police
will recommend that charges be filed against Israeli
President Moshe Katsav, media reported Saturday.
15-10-2006
Jewish sex sites answer pornography
As the internet pornography industry
earns billions of dollars, attracting men and women for
millions of hours, 3 new sex sites call on Jews to
change their habits ahead of the Rosh Hashana holiday.
24-9-2006
War porn - US military in Iraq facing growing problem of porn addiction
Pornography
in the military has been a problem for decades. But not
like today. During World War II, GIs carried decks of
cards illustrated with naked women and posted photos of
"pin-up gals" Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth.
18-9-2006
Israeli President accused of sexual coercion
Investigators seized computers and
documents from Israeli President Moshe Katsav's
residence and will question him about allegations that
he coerced a former employee into having sex with him.
21-8-2006
Israel: Scandal-plagued Katzav takes leave to avoid swearing in chief justice
President
Moshe Katsav, who is under police investigation in a
sexual harassment case, stepped down for the day
Thursday so as not to preside over the swearing-in of
the new chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court.
18-9-2005
Israeli president dogged by sexual harassment scandal
Israel's president
is being dogged by allegations of sexual harassment, and
the spiraling scandal has pushed the country's violent
standoff with Hamas over a kidnapped soldier off the
front pages. 17-7-2006
Iraq's new women's glossy that glosses over sexual advice
It promises the
typical fare of any women's glossy magazine: career
dilemmas, tips on a healthy sex life, and firm reminders
that once again, black is the colour to wear this year.
6-6-2006
Syria warns of deteriorating circumstances among Iraqi refugees
Iraqi refugees in
Syria are facing a crisis, with prostitution and child
labour increasing among the rapidly swelling community.
But, more than three years into the US-led war in Iraq,
the international community has continued to turn a
blind eye to their plight.
6-6-2006
Qatari women suffer from inequality
Qatari groups urge government to take
action against abuse of expatriate labour, sex trade in
women. An officially-sanctioned Qatari rights group
warned this week of the less-than-human working
conditions of the expatriate labour force in the Gulf
state and urged the government to take action.
7-5-2005
Iran's hardliners go ballistic over stadium sex threat
Allowing the fairer
sex into stadiums has "emboldened those loose elements
that cruise streets and parks of Tehran", evoking fears
that Islamic Iran may experience some kind of 'Summer of
Love'. 7-5-2006
Israeli IDF probes huge sex scandal
Severe sex scandal suspected at Air Force
base: Dozens of soldiers are suspected of raping and
committing other sexual offences against a 14-year-old
girl. 1-5-2006
Israel: Ex-cop suspected of trafficking
A Northern District Police unit detained
on Sunday 14 people suspected of women's trafficking and
in forcing the women into prostitution in the Haifa
area. Two of the suspects are believed to be the
leaders. 1-5-2006
Wife 'forced into sex trade' in Qatar
A foriegn woman, whose nationality was
not identified, has sued her husband for divorce for
forcing her into prostitution, a local Arabic daily said
this week. 1-5-2006
'Israel among worst human traffickers'
A report released this week by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has cited
Israel as among the top destinations in the trafficking
of human beings, either for sexual exploitation or
forced labor. 27-4-2006
Sex traffic thrives in lawless Iraq
Sex trafficking, almost non-existent
under Saddam Hussein, reportedly has resurfaced in Iraq,
where an estimated 2,000 women have gone missing since
2003. 27-4-2006
Hamas to fight 'porn culture'
The
new Palestinian culture minister has set his sights on
stamping out pornography - and belly dancing. Atallah
Abu Al-Subbah, a senior official of Islamist militant
group Hamas, said belly dancing was "a form of
striptease". 23-4-2006
Jewish "sex commando" targets Israeli porn web sites
A group of Jewish
ultra-Orthodox hackers is waging a war against
pornographic Web sites, replacing their content with
nothing but the picture of a revered rabbi, an Israeli
paper reported. 23-4-2006
Prostitution of Israeli youth
Over 1000
minors fell into prostitution over the course of 2005,
according to the annual report published by Elem, a
non-profit organization that provides outreach to youth
in distress. 20-4-2006
Iran's anti-HIV program a model
It
took 30 meetings just to create a slim AIDS-awareness
handbook for Iran's conservative high schools. A drawing
of a condom disappeared early; a photo of a syringe
survived. A mention of sexual transmission was approved,
but only with a reminder that sex before marriage is
forbidden. 20-4-2006
Sex work in Yemen to pay expenses
A recent study about the sex industry in
Yemen emphasized the necessity of treating the situation
of women who fall into the abyss of prostitution. It
criticized the lack of government social welfare
programs that do not include ways to prevent women from
sliding into prostitution and beggary.
5-4-2006
Lebanon: Child prostitution still rife, despite laws
At a glance, Nadine (not her real name)
is an innocent, 16 year-old-girl, but a conversation
with her soon reveals the shocking details of the hard
life she endured as a child. "I didn't choose to work as
a prostitute," she said. "It's just my luck in life."
29-3-2006
Yemeni teens trade sex for gaming
In the past 15 years, video games and
playstation entertainment shops have spread remarkably
in most Yemeni cities. Nearly every neighborhood has one
or more video game shops where children and teenagers
spend much time for entertainment. Parents complain that
video games influence their children's behavior.
27-2-2006
Female Hamas MPs to tackle sex discrimination
Ask Huda Naeem how she intends to use her
influence as a newly elected MP for Hamas and she ticks
off a list of wrongs done to women in the name of
religion. Forced marriage, honor killings, low pay and
girls being kept out of school are her priorities for
change in the Palestinian parliament. That is when she
is not preparing her 13-year-old son to die in the fight
against Israel. 20-2-2006
Yemeni youths find freedom online
Sitting at his computer and smiling
widely, snowyem23 (a chat room nickname) chatted online
with another user pretending to be female. The two spent
hours messaging one another in utter freedom.
9-2-2006
Son of Saudi official arrested on child porn possession - again
The son of a Saudi
military official has been arrested on porn charges.
Mohammed Abdullah al-Garni, arrested last week at his
family's Miami Beach condominium by Secret Service
agents, faces three counts of sending, receiving and
possessing child pornography on his computer.
8-2-2006
Incest case continues in Kuwait
Kuwait's Criminal Court this week set Feb
6, 2006 to listen to the argument of a lawyer who is
defending a Kuwaiti man, identified as Ahmed I.S. The
man has been charged with drugging his 19-year-old
daughter and having sex with her from the age of 13.
25-1-2006
Israel: Ready for prime time?
Three
thousand women in Israel: raped, beaten, trafficked,"
the caption reads. "Is aid on the way?" As images of
forlorn-looking women flash on the screen, the 30-second
television spot praises Israel's humanitarian efforts
worldwide - including the rescue and support of
southeast-Asian tsunami victims and Pakistani earthquake
survivors. 15-1-2006
Egypt film tackles issues of sex, hypocrisy
A young man on the back of a Cairo bus
kisses and gropes the woman next to him as he peels off
her Islamic headscarf. The scene from an independent
film about sex and double standards in Egypt shows
little nudity but provokes gasps of surprise from an
audience in this largely conservative country.
3-1-2006
Iraq: Sex and the Battlefield
Well
over a hundred thousand American men and women, most
younger than 30, spend a year or more at a time in a
foreign country where they are almost totally isolated
from the indigenous population. Are all these troops
really chaste for those long periods, as called for by
military regulations? 2-1-2006
UAE: Report on Indian expats submitted
The Indian mission in the UAE has
submitted a detailed report on the problems facing the
Indian expatriates, especially the labour force, to the
government of India, urging it to find solutions,
Khaleej Times has learned.
29-12-2005
Kuwait: Billiard hall hostesses held
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor
in coordination with police and under the supervision of
Hamad Al-Madhadhi, Assistant Undersecretary of the Labor
Affairs at the ministry have arrested 36 Asian women
working for billiard halls in Mangaf and Fintas in
violation of residence laws.
22-12-2005
UAE man gets 2-month jail-term for rape
Ignorance of law and lack of resources
held back two Asian housemaids from registering a
complaint of rape by an Arab expatriate. But, confiding
in each other about the misfortune that befell them gave
them strength to seek justice from the police
department. 22-12-2005
Israeli actor admits consensual sex with two plaintiffs
Actor Hanan
Goldblatt, who has been indicted on several counts of
rape and sexual assault, yesterday admitted to having
consensual sex with two of the six women who filed
complaints against them, but denied any wrongdoing and
said he did not have sex with the other four women.
22-12-2005
UAE: Attempts to smuggle in sex stimulants foiled
Federal health
authorities in the United Arab Emirates have foiled
several attempts to smuggle thousands of medical
products, including sexual stimulants, at one of the
country's entry points, said a senior health official.
16-12-2005
UAE: Teen lured to prostitution by marriage proposal
A 15 year old
teenaged high school girl who was lured by a young pimp
with the promise of marriage instead fell into a trap
and was forced to become a sex worker.
12-12-2005
Qatar: Two Asian housemaids held for prostitution
Two Asian maids have been rounded up by
the police on charges of running a prostitution racket
in the house of their sponsor.
6-12-2005
UAE: Hormone therapy for gay men
Men arrested at what a UAE official said
'appeared to be a gay wedding' are to be given hormone
therapy, officials said.
4-12-2005
Saudi Arabia should export its AIDS awareness campaign
According to a
United Nations report issued last week there are an
estimated half million people in the Middle East and
North Africa region who are HIV positive.
4-12-2005
Iraqis worried about wives
A
veteran Middle East observer, Robert Fisk, says Iraqi
civilians are worried about how to save their wives from
becoming prostitutes. 'Vast armies of the Mafioso are
now operating in Iraq,' said Fisk. 'Women are being sold
into prostitution into Syria and Yemen.'
23-11-2005
Iran: Two more executions for homosexual conduct
Iran's execution of two men last week for
homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution
of gay men that stands in stark violation of the rights
to life and privacy.
23-11-2005
Sexy, naughty, raunchy things
In
looking at a recent book from the west, one journalist
cites it's usefullness in giving Muslims, especially
women, a look at women in the west, as eastern culture
is increasingly influenced and pushed in that direction.
During my summer holiday I read an interesting book
entitled "Female Chauvinist Pigs" written by Ariel Levy.
25-10-2005
Muslim women break sex taboos
A
group of Asian women are collecting the details of the
sex life and fantasies of female Muslims with the aim of
publishing them in a taboo-breaking book.
5-10-2005
Four men arrested in Saudi over filmed sexual harassment
Riyadh police
have arrested four men who sexually harassed Saudi girls
in the capital in an incident filmed and publicized on
the Internet, the state SPA news agency reported on
Saturday. 5-10-2005
Israeli officer sent to jail for sexual offences
A special military court sentenced
Colonel Atef Zaher Tuesday to eight months in prison and
a demotion to the rank of major over illegal sexual
intercourse offences involving a female soldier under
his command. 24-9-2005
Lebanon: Gov't urged to combat trafficking in human beings
Lebanon needs to
review its domestic laws and policies to conform to
international norms in order to combat widespread
trafficking in human beings, especially women and
children, a United Nations expert said.
24-9-2005
Traditionalist view on sex slaves in Islam
Never having been an adherent of the
traditional schools of thought (madhabs), but always
respectful them, Oliver Ruebenacker found that his
respect was to receive a devastating blow.
7-9-2005
Iran proposes "love fund" to boost marriages
Tehran Iran is to create a $1.3 billion
"love fund" to encourage poor young people to marry, the
country's vice president said on Tuesday.
1-9-2005
Yemeni tourism: Focus on lust and corruption
Recently, Yemen has seen a dramatic rise
in the number of visitors flocking to spend their summer
vacation in this culturally rich country. Tourists from
many countries have arrived in this surge, including
those from Asia, Europe and Yemen's 'Gulf State'
neighbors. 31-8-2005
Israeli charged with sixth case of sexual assault
A sixth charge of sexual assault was
submitted Monday against actor Hanan Goldblatt who faces
five other charges of sexual offences, including rape.
31-8-2005
Filipino maids in the UAE: sex and violence
The charges are made by a group of
emigrant workers in the United Arab Emirates. The group
is calling on Manila to file a formal protest and to
review diplomatic links with Dubai.
24-8-2005
Qatari wife beats up porn-addict hubby
A Qatari woman bashed her husband up
after he refused to stop watching pornographic films on
TV, reports Al Sharq was told. She has gone to her
parents' house and is demanding divorce.
23-8-2005
Bluetooth helps Saudis break taboos
The restaurant, like all Riyadh eateries,
has taken precautions to prevent its male and female
diners from seeing or contacting each other.Circular
white walls surround each table in the family section,
open only to women alone or women accompanied by close
male relatives. Other male diners are on lower floors.
16-8-2005
Evidence of female circumcision surfaces in Iraq
A German aid
group finds the first solid proof of female genital
mutilation, thought to be prevalent in the Middle East.
11-8-2005
Iraq's porn dealers risk wrath of religious right
Islamic
militants threatened to kill him for it, but Abu Mustafa
says it was the only way he knew to make a living in the
chaos that is Baghdad today.
11-8-2005
Qatar: 'Prostitution' case shelved
A court hearing the story of a married
woman and her mother, both of whom were allegedly
involved in prostitution, shelved the case, a daily
Arabic newspaper reported.
9-8-2005
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
Bluetooth churns the Qatari sexes
The short-range wireless device is
challenging age-old customs in Qatar and other Gulf Arab
states where the mingling of the sexes remains taboo and
many marriages are still arranged by family elder.
2-8-2005
Iraqi women may lose basic rights under new constitution
The
irony is not lost either amongst women's groups in
Baghdad or activists in the United States: Iraqi women
who enjoyed basic human rights under one of the world's
most repressive regimes headed by former President
Saddam Hussein are now on the verge of losing their
hard-won freedoms under a US-blessed administration in
the insurgent-ravaged country.
27-7-2005
Terrorism and war increases prostitution
Women and girls in war zones suffer rape
and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment,
Because national authorities have failed to act to halt
such abuses. Despite promises, treaties and legal
mechanisms, governments failed to protect women and
girls in conflicts in Colombia, Iraq, Sudan, Chechnya,
Nepal and Afghanistan.
24-7-2005
Israel: Public backs legal prostitution
Almost two-thirds of the public believe
that prostitution should be legalized, according to a
survey presented yesterday in a joint meeting of the
Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of
Women and and the subcommittee on trafficking in women.
20-7-2005
Australia under fire over Iranian's sexual abuse
Australia's
under-fire immigration department came under renewed
attack Tuesday over the alleged sexual abuse of an
Iranian refugee in a detention camp while her young
daughter watched, according to AFP.
20-7-2005
Jordan: Daughter killed to cleanse family honor
A Jordanian man
killed his teenage daughter with a crowbar, allegedly to
cleanse the family honor, hours after promising police
he would not harm her for running away from home.
15-7-2005
Israeli cabinet backs far-reaching bill combating human trafficking
The Israeli
cabinet expressed its support Sunday for an ambitious
new law meant to combat exploitation of workers, or what
the government termed "modern slavery."
13-7-2005
Iraq: Acid attacks on "immodest" women on the rise
The State Department will cite Saudi
Arabia on Friday as one of the world's worst offenders
in an annual report evaluating countries' efforts at
combating the trafficking of thousands of people forced
into servitude or the sex trade every year.
9-7-2005
Time to end tourism marriages in Yemen
Sixty-three-year-old Hassan al-Hutami was
happy enough when his daughter married a visiting Saudi.
The happiness evaporated rapidly when he had a call from
Yemeni border guards soon after the daughter had left
home. 28-6-2005
Fire in their belly
Does a
woman need to grab political space to become an
effective leader? Or is it enough to have loads of
self-pride? An international women's conference in
Bangalore tried to find answers.
21-6-2005
A Muslim woman, a story of sex
An erotic novel written under a pseudonym
might normally struggle to find a mainstream publisher
and a wide readership. Not so, it seems, when it is
penned by a Muslim woman living in a traditional Arab
society.
Saudi says US human trafficking criticism unfounded
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it strongly disagreed
with a U.S. report naming it as a top offender
in human trafficking, a step which in theory might lead to sanctions against
the world's biggest oil exporter.
Qatari Prince guilty of child sex
Qatari Prince, Hamid Bin Abdul Sani al-Thani,
has been convicted in Prague, Czech Republic of sexually abusing young
girls and sentenced to 30 months in prison.Prince Al-Thani was
found guilty of paying to have sex with four girls under 15 years
old, between 2001 and 2004.
14-year-old
Jewish pimp arrested
A 14-year-old Beit Shemesh teen
was arrested last week for allegedly employing two teenage prostitutes, police
said. The suspect, who cannot be named because he is
a minor, is suspected of pimping two female prostitutes, aged 17 and 19,
for the last three months.
10-year-old
boy at center of sex scandal in Israel
For the past three weeks, a 10-year-old elementary school
pupil has been at the center of a storm in
the Arab public school system in Lod. Because of alleged improper behavior of
a sexual nature at school.
Arab
nations' health officials meet to combat taboo of STDs
Representatives from a dozen Arab nations
gathered in the Tunisian capital for a conference on fighting
the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, which infect 20 people in the Arab
world every minute, organizers said.
Sexual assaults scarring victims in Saudi Arabia
Rape is an ugly crime. For a young girl being forced
into sexual relations must be about as close as you can
get to hell on earth. The only way it could
be worse would be if the rapist was a brother or an uncle
- or even a father.
Wronged
wife shares husband's sex hideaway in Israel
A wronged Israeli wife, whose
husband made love to his secretary in a bachelor
hideaway, quenched her lust for revenge by indulging in
her own extramarital dalliances in the same rented
apartment.
Israel: 8 teens
held for alleged rape, abuse of girl, 13
Eight teenage boys
were ordered held in custody for three days on suspicion
of raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually abusing her in
other ways. The boys are aged 13 to 17.
With end of Saddam-era censorship in Iraq, cinemas look to profit from porn
movies
Twenty-five-year-old Nawzad was looking
at a poster advertising a racy Turkish film. After 15
minutes of staring at the poster, which featured sex
scenes, he went to the al-Rasheed cinema counter and
bought a movie ticket.
HIV-positive
women can't get fertility treatment in Israel
M.N. very much
wanted to have a baby. Her age, 40, did not deter her,
nor the fact that she did not have a partner, or that
she would need fertility treatments because of a
gynecological problem. Even the fact that she was HIV
positive did not weaken her resolve.
Sister slain in honour killing over cellphone photo in Jordan
A Jordanian
man shot dead his divorced sister after seeing her photo
on his friend's camera-equipped mobile phone in the
latest "honour" killing in the kingdom, hospital
officials said on
Monday.
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