Posts Tagged ‘Sex Trade’
Monday, May 10th, 2010
10/5/10; (2 Items)
A couple who operated a Sydney brothel forced five women to live in “conditions of slavery”, making them work more than 100 hours per week, even if they were sick, a jury has been told. Trevor Frank McIvor, 62, and his de facto wife, Kanokporn Tanuchit, 44, have each pleaded not guilty to five counts of possessing a slave and five counts of using a slave. The jurors, who were told the hearing is a retrial, heard that the five women were recruited from Thailand by a third party, who arranged Australian visas for them. Crown prosecutor Bruce Levet said on their arrival in Sydney, the women had their passports and phones taken and they were housed in “restricted circumstances” at the Fairfield brothel or the couple’s house.
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Tags: Australia, Sex Trade, Thailand, Womens Rights
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
Stephen Fitzpatrick; 30/4/10; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/indonesia-sings-to-end-slavery-and-exploitation/story-e6frg6so-1225860378463
Some of Indonesia’s top rock bands, a bubbly pop starlet who makes teenagers swoon, the music channel MTV and the Australian government’s aid program might seem an unlikely combination. But a series of concerts kicking off this weekend in Pontianak, the regional capital of West Kalimantan, has a serious objective: raising awareness of human trafficking. The five free concerts, which it is hoped will attract about 100,000 young Indonesians, are designed to push the message that being sold into prostitution and forced labour is a major human rights violation. UN figures suggest 2.5 million people are trafficked annually, the majority in the Asia-Pacific. About 100,000 Indonesian women and children are sold into sexual slavery each year, according to Unicef.
AusAID and its American counterpart, USAID, are the concert program’s major sponsors, which is headed up by young former Sydney lawyer Matt Love and spruiked by Agnes Monica, a young pop singer, dancer and soapie actress who sends Indonesian teens delirious. “It takes more than just one person, it takes more than just MTV, it takes more than just the government, it takes everyone to stand up and do their part,” Ms Monica said at the Jakarta launch.
Tags: Children, Human Rights, Indonesia, Sex Trade, Women
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Sian Powell; 13/3/08;
A laugh rings out; one of the young women leans over, grinning, and whacks her neighbour on the arm. There are eight or 10 friends here in the Can Do bar in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai, sitting in easy camaraderie around a big table in an open-air back room. Eating noodles, teasing, gossiping – they are clearly enjoying themselves, at ease with one another, relaxed. These women could be students, or colleagues, or factory workers on a break.
Instead, they are all prostitutes – forced by economic necessity and a lack of opportunity to make a living selling sex to men. Thailand has limited social welfare provisions and life is hard for the poor, especially refugees.
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Tags: Sex Trade, Thailand, Womens Rights
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
16/2/10; (2 Items)
Irish bishops one by one will give an accounting to the Pope of their views, actions or knowledge about decades of sexual abuse by clergy, a participant said, but resignations were not on the agenda for the Vatican’s extraordinary summit, starting yesterday. “A casualty of all this has been the truth,” Clogher Bishop Joseph Duffy said on the eve of the two day summit. “The fullness of the truth must come out, everything must be laid on the table.”
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Tags: Christianity, Germany, Ireland, Sex Trade
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
15/1/09
Israeli police have arrested a sect leader suspected of enslaving and sexually abusing 17 women and the 40 children he had with them. Goel Ratzon, 59, is accused of keeping at least 57 women and children in cramped apartments in several locations in the Tel Aviv area, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. In one case, police raided a three-bedroom apartment where 10 women and 17 children were found in a “terrible state”, living in “horrible conditions”, he said. Mr Ratzon has been known for several years to head a sect of women who were said to adulate him, have sex with him and raise his children.
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Tags: Israel, Religion, Sex Trade
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Bassam Za’za’; 23/12/09; (3 Items)
An Iraqi and his wife have been jailed after a court convicted them of sexually exploiting a teenage girl to work as an exotic dancer and sex worker. The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the 52-year-old electrician, R.A., and his 45-year-old wife, A.I., to three years in jail each followed by deportation. Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout, who pronounced Tuesday’s judgment, also sentenced a 26-year-old Iraqi salesman, H.M., to a year in jail followed by deportation for aiding and abetting the couple. The court pardoned a 25-year-old Iraqi housewife, B.A., from serving a punishment, which the judge did not specify. She had refuted the charge of failing to report the couple to the authorities. The couple had earlier denied buying the 17-year-old girl from her parents in Iraq and forcing her to work as an exotic dancer and prostitute in Dubai.
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Tags: Dubai, Sex Trade, UAE, Violence, Womens Rights
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Amira Hass: 10/12/09
Young Palestinian women are being forced to into prostitution in brothels, escort services, and private apartments in Ramallah and Jerusalem, including areas inhabited by Jews, according to a report released Wednesday. The Palestinian organization SAWA (All Women Together Today and Tomorrow) published the paper, the first of its kind, urging Palestinian society to break its silence over its sex industry. The report was compiled with support by UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, which allotted resources for research on the subject. SAWA conducted research and interviews for the study in the beginning of 2008, but for a variety of reasons has only now been published. The report, which is titled “Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Palestinian Women and Girls: Forms of Modern Day Slavery,” was released in conjunction with the “Global 16-day Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women.”
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Tags: Israel, Sex Trade
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Nick McKenzie; 3/12/09
The Catholic Church’s chief sexual abuse investigator in Melbourne has for the second time tipped off a priest that he is the target of a covert police inquiry. The action by Peter O’Callaghan, QC, has infuriated police and drawn a strong rebuke from Victoria’s top sexual crime detective. In the two separate cases, the priests were told by Mr O’Callaghan that they were under investigation without the consent of detectives, before police had interviewed them and while the inquiries were at a covert stage, leaving them open to potential compromise.
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Tags: Australia, Christianity, Sex Trade
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
13/11/09
A teenage Afghan girl has praised the death sentence handed to the Egyptian who imprisoned and sexually exploited her for the last four years, Al-Madinah daily reported on Thursday. Madinah police rescued the 14-year-old girl, known as Raziah, from her kidnappers earlier this year. A Madinah court sentenced Muhammad Al-Junaidi and his sister Jamalat to death by beheading, a decision endorsed by a committee of judges on Wednesday. His wives were also jailed for helping him. First wife Fatimah was sentenced to 10 years in jail, while second and third wives Merfat and Zainab were each imprisoned for one year and 500 lashes.
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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Sex Trade, Womens Rights
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Barney Zwartz; 29/10/09
Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart has sent a letter to every Melbourne parish warning priests not to read to congregations a letter from a woman who says she was procured by nuns so a priest could rape her when she was a child. Archbishop Hart’s letter, sent on October 20, says the sexual abuse occurred in another diocese and has no connection with Melbourne, and that a complaint has been dealt with under the national protocol, Towards Healing. The alleged victim, Jenny Tiffin, received $12,000 compensation in 2006 from the Sisters of Nazareth who ran the Nazareth House children’s home in Ballarat. But a second application to the diocese of Ballarat was rejected. Ballarat Bishop Peter Connors told The Age yesterday he could say with certainty there was no assault.
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Tags: Australia, Christianity, Sex Trade
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Jamie L Manson 22/10/09
Jamie Manson received her master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. She currently serves as director of Social Justice Ministries at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, working primarily with New York City’s homeless and poor populations. She is a member of the national board of the Women’s Ordination Conference.
On Friday, Oct. 16 the most e-mailed article on The New York Times Web site was the story of Pat Bond’s fight to receive financial support for the terminally ill son that she conceived with a Franciscan priest over 20 years ago. Four days later, the eighth most e-mailed Times article told of the Pope’s new initiative to welcome larger numbers of Anglican priests and seminarians, regardless of marital status, into the Roman Catholic clergy. The Pontiff is putting this plan into practice in an attempt to offer a spiritual home to those who have either left or are considering leaving the Anglican Communion because of their opposition to the ordination of women and openly-gay priests as well as the blessing of same-sex unions.
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Tags: Christianity, Human Rights, Sex Trade
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
17/9/09
Some 750,000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the internet in a bid to gain contact with children, a United Nations report warns. “The number of sites devoted to child pornography worldwide is growing. The number of predators connected to the internet at any one time is estimated to be 750,000,” said Najat Maala, Special Rapporteur on the child prostitution and child pornography issue. Unicef also estimates there are more than four million websites featuring minors, including those of children aged under two years.
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Tags: Global, Pedophilia, Sex Trade, UN
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Dean Nelson; 16/5/09
Farmers in India made destitute by droughts blamed on climate change are selling their wives to brothels to pay off moneylenders. A succession of droughts compounded by flash floods in recent years have destroyed crops and ruined the soil, leaving farmers in debt to loan sharks. The growing number of farmers who have committed suicide to escape the shame has attracted concern but less attention has been paid to farmers handing their wives and daughters over to prostitution.
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Tags: India, Sex Trade
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Steve Lillebuen; 14/9/09
With a middle-class background and an internet connection, the Australian man is keen to explore travel deals advertised across the web. He is the co-worker, relative and mate who awaits cheap flights to Southeast Asia that the economic downturn has made all the more plentiful. But he is drawn to such tropical places not for the beaches, cheap drinks and a brief escape from the rat race. He is the customer in a growing global issue that sees over 1.8 million children as young as eight years old being sold for sex – sometimes up to ten times a day – until they’re considered “worthless” before they reach their 30th birthday.
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Tags: Asia, Australia, Sex Trade
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Debbie Guest; 29/8/09
Three men men who pleaded guilty to sexually penetrating two Aboriginal girls aged 12 and 13 have escaped jail after the judge said the girls looked older and had sought out the men for sex. In Broome District Court last month, the men were given either one- or two-year suspended sentences, prompting outrage from Western Australia’s police union, which said the punishments were “extremely lenient”. Two of the cases involved the same girl. One of the men, Justin Charles Mudimbu, a 39-year-old Zimbabwean who moved to Broome two months before the offences, had sex with the girl in exchange for alcohol and money on three occasions last September. He was given a 3 1/2-year prison sentence, suspended for two years. The first offence took place when the girl was just 12, and on each occasion he did not wear a condom.
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Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Sex Trade
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Bassam Za’za’; 28/8/09
Three human traffickers have been jailed five years after a court convicted them of sexually exploiting a woman who fell to her death while escaping from a brothel. The Dubai Court of First Instance imprisoned the three accused, a 40-year-old Indian visitor and two Bangladeshi unemployed men, after they were found guilty of human trafficking and exploiting the unidentified woman and forcing her into the sex trade. Announcing yesterday’s verdict, Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad said the trio, 40-year-old A.K. and the Bangladeshis, 26-year-old M.S. and 25-year-old S.S., will deported after serving their punishment.
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Tags: Dubai, Sex Trade
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