Topic: Sex Trade
Berlusconi ‘outrage’ at conviction for sex with underage prostitute
June 26, 2013 ·
First published: Mon, Jun 24, 2013, 01:00 Silvio Berlusconi was handed a seven-year jail sentence today for abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor, adding to the complications facing Italy’s fragile left-right government. The former prime minister will not have to serve any jail time before he has exhausted an appeals […]
Read More...Oxford sex gang: girls as young as 11 'forced into prostitution'
May 16, 2013 ·
Girls as young as 11 were forced into prostitution and trafficked around the country by the Oxford paedophile ring. Oxford sex gang. Left to right, top: Akhtar Dogar, Anjum Dogar, Kamar Jamil, Assad Hussain. Bottom: Mohammed Karrar, Bassam Karrar and Zeeshan Ahmed Photo: PA 14 May 2013 The gang of seven – convicted at the […]
Read More...Real problem
October 11, 2011 · , Editorial, Philippine Daily Inqirer
There was a lot of hue and cry about the statement of US Ambassador Harry Thomas at a recent judicial conference on human trafficking that 40 percent of foreign male tourists visit the Philippine for commercial sex. At first the ambassador refused to change his statement when asked by Philippine officials to apologize for it, […]
Read More...AUSTRALIANS FEED CAMBODIAN CHILD SEX TRADE
August 12, 2002 ·
According to ECPAT Australia, hundreds of Australian men are flocking to Cambodia to have sex with girls and boys sold in brothels. In Cambodia, brothels openly thrive and sex with a girl aged 10 to 13 costs $30. Cambodian women’s affairs minister Mu Sochua told that corruption in the legal system and government in difference […]
Read More...Child Sex Tours
June 2, 2001 ·
John Kosky (now known as Jonathon Kaye) has been arrested in Australia and charged with organising child sex tours to Asia. Kaye’s arrest marks the eleventh arrest under Australia’s 1994 Child Sex Tourism law. (Source: ECPAT Australia Newsletter No. 61)
Read More...Success in Battle Against Sex Tourism
February 10, 2001 ·
Second World Congress will take place in Yokohama, Japan in December 2001. Governments will be asked to renew and extend the commitments they made at the first meeting. An encouraging case study – curbing sex tourism: Many ‘sex tourists’ deliberately travel abroad to have sex with children because they believe it is legal and culturally […]
Read More...PROGRESS AGAINST SEX TOURISM
February 5, 2001 ·
An encouraging case study – curbing sex tourism: Many ‘sex tourists’ deliberately travel abroad to have sex with children because they believe it is legal and culturally acceptable. But there is also hope in the fact that advocates like ECPAT have succeeded in engaging airlines, governments, and travel agencies in their work. By 1995, international […]
Read More...SOUTH ASIA – MAIN ISSUE
October 15, 2000 ·
by Sutthida Malikaew The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is an immense problem in South Asian countries. Bangladesh and Nepal are the dominant source countries for trafficking within the region. Estimates vary, but a safe estimation is that several thousand Bangladeshi girls are trafficked out of the country each year. Destination countries include India, […]
Read More...EASTERN EUROPE – MAIN ISSUE
October 10, 2000 ·
The trafficking of children for sexual purposes is reaching alarming dimensions in Eastern Europe. The most worrying fact is that the trafficking is carried out by well-organised and powerful international criminal networks. Furthermore, recent reports indicate that Eastern European women are being marketed and sold over the internet by criminal gangs which then smuggle them […]
Read More...US Lawmakers Vote in Crackdown on International Sex Traff'icking
May 24, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON DC – Sordid tales of women and children tricked or forced into sexual slavery echoed in the United States House chamber last week as lawmakers approved a bill aimed at cracking down on global sex trafficking.
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