Archive for the ‘Sex Trade’ Category
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Helen Brien; 9/10/08
Here we go again. Bill Bloody Henson and his “art”. I am damn sick of it and I am damn sick of the people who will always defend his photos and consider any negative reaction as being from uneducated, ignorant, non-art loving philistines. Well, I have had enough. I have had enough of this so-called art and the art world’s you-just-don’t-understand response after the original outpouring of disgust. Heads up, art world. Look around you. Our entire society is becoming more and more sexualised when it comes to children and Henson is part of that. Not “above” or “separate” from society but part of society.
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Tags: Australia, Children, Sex Trade
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Date: October 9 2008; Louise Armstrong, 1937 - 2008
Louise Armstrong wrote the book that exposed how commonplace but hidden child sexual abuse within the family really is. Kiss Daddy Goodnight: A Speak-out On Incest (1978), a collection of the personal narratives of women who had survived incest, helped debunk the myth that child abusers are weird loners, or that abuse only happens in “dysfunctional” families. The book galvanised feminists to organise against child sexual abuse, and led to many survivors finding the courage to speak out. Armstrong, who has died at 71, had been sexually abused as a child by her father, but always refused to be defined solely by her experience. Initially, the book was rejected by publishers because they assumed that incest was rare, and a topic which would interest few. But it was to become a seminal text. Armstrong had written several non-fiction books for children, such as How To Turn Lemons Into Money: A Child’s Guide To Economics and How To Turn Up Into Down: A Child’s Guide To Inflation, Depression, and Economic Recovery. After Kiss Daddy Goodnight, she became known as an expert in the field.
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Tags: Children, Sex Trade
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Michael McKenna; 8/10/08
Australian authorities took more than three years to act on a Vanuatu government request to execute a search warrant on a Sydney university to gather evidence of bribery allegations against Australian lawyer Julian Moti, who has been committed to stand trial in Brisbane on child sex tourism charges.Mr Moti, Solomon Islands attorney-general between July and December last year, is facing seven charges of unlawful sexual intercourse with a then 13-year-old girl over a six-month period in 1997 in Noumea and at his oceanfront home in Vanuatu, where he headed a law firm. His arrest in Port Moresby in 2006, en route to the Solomons to take up his political appointment, and later escape to Honiara, sent relations to a new low between the Howard government and the leaders of Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.
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Tags: Australia, Pacific, Sex Trade
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
8/10/08
The tough times had forced people to commit a staggering 31,000 crimes, including children and young women who were forced into prostitution, according to the Lae MP and Deputy Opposition leader Bart Philemon. The crime figures obtained from police were for a five-year period – 2002 to 2007. Mr Philemon also collected health and education figures to show a picture of the sick and ailing Papua New Guinea. He said children and young mothers were suffering as shown by the high maternal mortality rates and the “shocking” infant mortality rates and the death of children less than five years of age. “IF you still think this is not a problem, talk to Tessie Soi of Friends Foundation. Annually, they have two to three mass burials of these innocent children and she will tell you how they struggle for donations to purchase little coffins to bury the tiny innocent still born babies abandoned in city morgues,” he said.
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Tags: Children, health, Murder, PNG, Rape, Women
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Vered Lee; 8/10/08
A police closure order has been stuck to the external door of a large Tel Aviv brothel for more than a month, listing for all to see the full names and identity card numbers of five women who worked there as prostitutes. The brothel, in a basement on Wolfson Street in South Tel Aviv, was shut down August 25. Out front are a few small businesses and workshops; inside are apartments. For a long time an apartment on the bottom floor served as a discrete brothel, tucked away inside the building. It provided fancier, more stylish rooms - and charged higher prices - than the escort service at the front of the building, which advertised itself with a sign.
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Tags: Israel, Sex Trade
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
7/10/08
A sexual harassment law is being drafted by the Shoura Council and the Ministry of Labor, according to yesterday’s Al-Madinah newspaper. The draft law suggests a SR50,000 fine and a prison sentence of up to three years to people found guilty of sexually harassing women subordinates. The law aims at reducing incidence of harassment in workplaces with women’s sections, such as hospitals and advertising agencies. According to the Al-Madinah report, legal experts have analyzed sexual harassment laws in Europe, the US and in some Muslim countries before preparing the draft. The new law will label sexual harassment a crime against honor that will entail a minimum of one year in prison and a SR20,000 fine.
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Tags: Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, Women, Workers
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Rana Husseini; 7/10/08
The Criminal Court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison after convicting him of murdering a man and attempting to poison his father in May 2001. The court declared N. F., guilty of one count of premeditated murder and a second of attempted premeditated murder and handed him the death penalty. But the court immediately reduced the sentence to 10 years because the victim’s family dropped charges against the defendant. The court verdict said the defendant was abused by his father and decided “to take revenge by killing him to end the violent life he was living”.
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Tags: Jordan; Pedophilia
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Selma Milovanovic; 4/10/08
Five years after he resigned over a child sexual abuse scandal, former governor-general Peter Hollingworth says he should never have accepted the vice-regal job. In a rare interview since his controversial departure in May 2003, Dr Hollingworth told The Big Issue he had underestimated concerns about the separation between church and state. Asked whether he would have been better off declining the job offer, he said: “With the benefit of hindsight, yes.” Dr Hollingworth said he had asked then prime minister John Howard why he was an appropriate choice. “He (Mr Howard) went through a whole lot of things … and I was thinking, ‘I can do this job. I do know Australia, I do know the Australian people, I know about government, I know about the constitution and can make reasonable speeches,” he said.
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Tags: Australia, Christianity, Sex Trade
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Nicky Trup; 4/10/08
Victims of Paul Raymond Evans clapped and cheered from the public gallery of the NSW District Court yesterday after the Catholic priest was handed a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing teenage boys in his care. Evans, 57, who was a parish priest on the NSW central coast for 15 years, was convicted in July of committing 18 sexual offences against seven boys when he worked at Boys Town Catholic boarding school in Engadine, in Sydney’s south, between 1977 and 1988. Evans was found guilty of nine counts of homosexual intercourse by a teacher, seven of indecent assault and two acts of indecency.
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Tags: Australia, Christianity, Sex Trade
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Kim Gouz; 3/10/08
Bombs and warplanes aren’t the only controversial commodities that Russia has been transporting abroad. Just ask Russian newspaper reporter Yaroslava Tankova. Tankova went undercover to expose the work of Russia’s trafficking mafia. She joined a group of women and girls who were promised jobs as waitresses in Israel. Unfortunately, Tankova’s group won’t be found dishing up hummus on Tel Aviv beach. They were trafficked to Israel via Egypt by Bedouins to be sold as sex slaves. “One of the girls nearly died from sunstroke. Another was raped by an Arab guard. He used a plastic bag instead of a condom,” Tankova reports in the video. “We were treated like meat. One man hit me but the other guards intervened. They didn’t want the commodity spoiled before it was sold.”
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Tags: Egypt, Israel, Russia, Sex Trade
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