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Sunny Leone in new Bollywood movie
Indian adult film and porn sensation Sunny Leone, who has made a successful crossover to 'regular' media, appears in the upcoming Bollywood film 'Shootout at Wadala' in which she performs a dance number to the song "O laila." She also has a larger role throughout the overall film.
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Teaching prostitutes to spot fake cash
It is another busy day for Satabadi Jana in one of Asia's largest red-light districts, Sonagachi, where more than 10,000 prostitutes live and work. A group of sex workers is crammed into a small room, which serves as Ms Jana's office. They listen carefully to what she has to say.
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In India debate heats up over teen sex
The debate has reopened recently in India, as the government prepares a new criminal amendment designed to better protect women and punish sexual offenders. Up for discussion is lowering the age of consent from 18 to 16, which may reverse a law passed last year criminalizing all sex involving those under 18, even if it was consensual.
14-3-2013
India: No consensus over consensual sex consent
When the sexual offences Bill was passed, naysayers had maintained that setting the age of consent at 16 would be in keeping with both the existing rape law and the social reality of the day. This included the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights, but they were all overruled.
14-3-2013
Delhi protest over 'sex attack' on seven-year-old girl
There have been violent protests in the Indian capital, Delhi, after reports that a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at school. Police used batons to break up angry crowds outside a hospital where the girl had been taken for treatment.
8-3-2013
'Dirty' and 'defected' trans individuals should be expelled from homes, encourages Muslim leader
Muslim leader Faiz Syed has spoken out against India's transgender community known as hijras. A video in which a Muslim leader decries the transgender community has gone viral on YouTube.
28-2-2013
Voluntary sex work may be kept out of criminal law ambit
The government has decided not to treat voluntary sex workers above the age of 18 years as victims of trafficking, in its new definition of the offence in criminal law. 20-2-2013
Boy jailed in Afghanistan for having sex with two men
Afghanistan—Rights campaigners voiced outrage on Sunday over a 13-year-old Afghan boy jailed for having sex with two adult men, urging the Western-backed Kabul government to release him and punish his abusers. 14-2-2013
Human trafficking, prostitution
thrive in Afghanistan
Thousands of Afghan girls and boys are trafficked into neighboring countries and sold into slavery each year. Though it is taboo, prostitution is alive and thriving - at the cost of those forced to work in it. It is the oldest trade in the world and exists in probably every country in the world. 9-2-2013
Time to confront India’s child
sex abuse scourge
As India reels from the recent Delhi gang-rape case, demanding strict punishment and speedy trial in cases of sexual assault against women, a fast-track court in Katihar district of northern Indian state Bihar awarded death sentence to a man convicted of raping and murdering his three-year-old niece after a six-day trial. 9-2-2013
Indian momen seek exit from prostitution
Two women, who are not related, were forced into prostitution as adolescents. Now in their mid-30s, they are trying to get out. Wrapped in saris - Salma in orange, green and yellow, Salena in embroidered maroon - they spoke with our group of students and professors from New York University in Kolkata's Eden Gardens park. 9-2-2013
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