The Latest Breaking News from Prostitution

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

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

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The minister’s comments came during a hearing on human trafficking in which she was pressed on the lack of prosecutions of men having sex with trafficked women

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