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Sex workers will be able to argue their case against a French law that penalises clients paying for sex before the European Court of Human Rights, which has agreed to hear their appeal.

Federal prosecutors in Phoenix say a founder of the classified ad site Backpage

In Peru, 60 percent of people who disappear are women. Over 11,000 women were reported missing in the country last year, the majority of them teenagers. Some disappearances are voluntary. But most are linked to human trafficking networks, prostitution and domestic violence. Despite this poor record, Peru was the first…

A founder of Backpage faces second trial over what prosecutors say was a scheme to sell ads for sex

A founder of Backpage

Airs Tuesday 15 August 2023 on Channel 4 at 6.30pm.

Previous trial of executives at now-closed website ended in mistrial

The Metropolitan Police believe an organised crime network is using male recruiters to traffic women and force them into prostitution.

The kidnapping of a woman who authorities say escaped her abductor by punching her way out of a cinder block cell in Oregon has focused attention on the area where authorities say she was taken: Aurora Avenue in Seattle, an urban stretch of state highway lined with box stores and…

As rightwing media and the mayor target a Queens neighborhood, sex workers say they’re just trying to survive

Plus: More "manifesting prostitution" nonsense, U.S. loses top-tier credit rating, and more...