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- Indian sex workers get life insurance
- KOLKATA, India AFP — Sex workers in India now have the option of taking out life insurance cover -- a move they hope will speed up their bid to legalise the profession, a charity said Monday. "Sex workers approached Life Insurance Corporation of India, which agreed to provide insurance...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Tar wars: as Canada scrambles to dig up some of the world's dirtiest oil, a Bush doctor tracks mysterious diseases, poisoned rivers, and shattered lives
- At a small airport in the northern Alberta town of Fort McMurray, a rickety, single-engine Cessna hurtles off the ground with a roar. Dr. John O'Connor ignores the shuddering fuselage, the tail wiggle, the steep climb above the spruce trees at the end of the runway. For O'Connor, a bush...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Sports in Brief: Arizona signs Penn State's Morelli
- Penn State quarterback Anthony Morelli , passed over in last weekend's NFL draft, signed a free-agent contract yesterday with the Arizona Cardinals. Fullback Matt Hahn signed with the Oakland Raiders. Running back Austin Scott , dismissed from the team before the Alamo Bowl in December, has been invited to the...
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- As Myanmar's economy crumbles, prostitution lures young women
- YANGON AFP — Cherry and Kay Kay walk into room Number Two of a Yangon karaoke bar, where a man waits alone for them on a brown leather sofa. "Come on, girls. Sing, please," he says, as they flick the karaoke machine to a Myanmar folk song they hope...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Turkey: transsexuals take to the stage to defend their rights
- ANKARA AFP — A unique play in an Ankara theatre ended with a standing ovation this week as the little-known actors -- transsexuals and gays raising their voice against discrimination -- fought back their tears on stage. Their play, "Pink And Grey," put the spotlight on the plight of...
- Research articles 2008-01-20
- Aid group says NKorea cracks down on illegal sex trade
- SEOUL AFP — North Korea has closed massage parlours as part of a crackdown on the illegal sex trade, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday. The drive began last year, with masseuses asked to switch jobs, Good Friends said in a newsletter. Prostitution is illegal in the reclusive...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Mustang Ranch: Back in the saddle Mustang Ranch back in the saddle
- PATRICK, Nev. -- It made Nevada the only state where prostitution is legal. In its checkered history, it was burned down, rebuilt, shut down by the IRS and sold on eBay for the price of a modest home. Now it's back. In its 40...
- Research articles 2007-08-04
- Mustang Ranch: Back in the saddle
- PATRICK, Nev. -- It made Nevada the only state where prostitution is legal. In its checkered history, it was burned down, rebuilt, shut down by the IRS and sold on eBay for the price of a modest home. Now it's back. In its 40...
- Research articles 2007-08-04
- Indian sex workers make May Day appeal
- KOLKATA, India AFP — Thousands of Indian sex workers took to the streets Tuesday in the Marxist-ruled West Bengal state to press for better working conditions. Some 5,000 prostitutes joined a torchlight rally to mark May Day in the state capital Kolkata, saying sex workers should be given a...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- New Zealand cop keeps job after moonlighting as prostitute
- WELLINGTON AFP — A New Zealand policewoman is receiving counselling after the discovery she had been moonlighting as a prostitute but has kept her job on the force. The Auckland officer had taken up part-time work as a prostitute "for a limited time", said police media communications manager Jon...
- Research articles 2006-07-19
- Blatter urged to join fight against World Cup prostitution
- STRASBOURG, France AFP — FIFA president Joseph Blatter has been urged by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe to join the fight and condemn outright prostitution during the 2006 World Cup. Swiss socialist Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, author of a report "the traffic of women on the eve of...
- Research articles 2006-04-12
- Swedish call to boycott World Cup over forced prostitution
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden's football squad should boycott the 2006 World Cup in Germany to protest against a feared rise in forced prostitution, the Swedish ombudsman for gender equality said. "We should distance ourselves and say that we will not accept such a situation and for that reason we...
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- Transcript of Remarks by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the 'Innocence Lost' Initiative Press Conference (1/2)
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the "Innocence Lost" Initiative press conference. (1 of 2): MR. GONZALES: Good afternoon. I am joined by Assistant Director Chris Swecker from the FBI, Assistant Attorney General Alice...
- Research articles 2005-12-16
- While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religious, Culture, and Public Life)
- * Charles Krauthammer has about had it with the new war on certainty, as he calls it. Doubt is in, conviction is out. He notes the recent cover article in the New Republic lauding the "conservatism of doubt," as well as the big flop of a Hollywood...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- AIDS death sparks panic in Bosnian town
- SARAJEVO AFP — The death of a prostitute with AIDS has sparked panic in the southern Bosnian town of Mostar, police and residents said. "Men are panicking here. They talk only about this and I know a few of them who are very worried about it," said a journalist,...
- Research articles 2004-11-04
- Not Just Another Pretty Face.(sex trade in China)
- When Xun, a petite, ponytailed, 23-year-old from Sichuan province, became the first member of her family to get into college, she knew attending the prestigious university in China's southern city of Wuhan could lift her family out of generations of poverty. Laid-off workers with no social...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- The decline and fall of TV network news. (Beat the Press).(Brief Article)
- Television news has had a pretty rough 2002 so far. The "Nightline" brush with death at the hands of Dave Letterman didn't exactly make me want to slap a "Save Ted Koppel's $8-Million-a-Year Job" bumper sticker on my car. Koppel can sometimes be very...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Women And Human Rights - U.S. Department of State report
- COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES FOR 2000 RELEASED BY THE BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, February, 2001 "WHY THE REPORTS ARE PREPARED This report is submitted to the Congress by the Department of State in compliance with sections 116d and...
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- House of the rising farce; Prostitution.(Prostitution in New Orleans)(results of FBI investigation)(Brief Article)
- Clear and pleasant danger Clear and pleasant danger
- Research articles 2002-06-15
- SO-CALLED "ANTI-TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN", AIMED AT THE FIGHT AGAINST THE VIOLENT INVOLVING OF WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION HAS BEGUN IN ST.-PETERSBURG AND 5 OTHER CITI
- A&G Information Services 05-21-2001 SO-CALLED "ANTI-TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN", AIMED AT THE FIGHT AGAINST THE VIOLENT INVOLVING OF WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION HAS BEGUN IN ST.-PETERSBURG AND 5 OTHER CITIES ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, ¨ A&G Information Services 05-21-2001 ...
- Research articles 2001-05-21
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