Latest items for IRP-PRACTICE-5
Jan. 15, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Countries: Hungary
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"With the exception of procurement and brothel owning, prostitution is legal in Hungary if it takes place in so-called 'tolerance-zones'. Local municipalities can implement these zones where they see fit, taking into account the proximity of government institutions. However, there are few tolerance zones, because whenever the municipality introduces one, local residents almost always protest against it. As a result, prostitution is found in secluded areas just about everywhere and not just in these zones. This makes the police and local authorities fine and arrest people arbitrarily. They sometimes introduce a zone after arresting the prostitutes. In conclusion, prostitution is partly legal, but enforcement is a grey area and is...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"With the exception of procurement and brothel owning, prostitution is legal in Hungary if it takes place in so-called 'tolerance-zones'. Local municipalities can implement these zones where they see fit, taking into account the proximity of government institutions. However, there are few tolerance zones, because whenever the municipality introduces one, local residents almost always protest against it. As a result, prostitution is found in secluded areas just about everywhere and not just in these zones. This makes the police and local authorities fine and arrest people arbitrarily. They sometimes introduce a zone after arresting the prostitutes. In conclusion, prostitution is partly legal, but enforcement is a grey area and is...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 7 p.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Police are powerless to act for lack of resources. All they can do if they find a young girl being sold and bought for sex is take them home, where they are probably still going to be abused, and then they are back on the street within days, as the money goes to their families" (para 34).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Police are powerless to act for lack of resources. All they can do if they find a young girl being sold and bought for sex is take them home, where they are probably still going to be abused, and then they are back on the street within days, as the money goes to their families" (para 34).
Jan. 10, 2025, 6:51 p.m.
Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Steps away, young women in colorful wigs and low-cut evening dresses lined up in front of shabby buildings for their day’s work: providing sex to men. On the fourth and fifth floors of one building, South Asian men sat in the stairway, scrolling on their phones, sipping beer and waiting for their turns with the sex workers. All the while police vehicles slowly navigated the district’s narrow alleys – part of the policing and surveillance apparatus that keeps UAE authorities deeply informed about what’s going on in Dubai and other emirates" (para 62-63).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Steps away, young women in colorful wigs and low-cut evening dresses lined up in front of shabby buildings for their day’s work: providing sex to men. On the fourth and fifth floors of one building, South Asian men sat in the stairway, scrolling on their phones, sipping beer and waiting for their turns with the sex workers. All the while police vehicles slowly navigated the district’s narrow alleys – part of the policing and surveillance apparatus that keeps UAE authorities deeply informed about what’s going on in Dubai and other emirates" (para 62-63).
Jan. 10, 2025, 9:29 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iraq, if the police do enforce the law, action is usually taken against the women while the pimps and sex buyers are given impunity. Sometimes they even help the pimps and brothel owners to continue – while brutally abusing the women who end up in jail" (para 11).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5, DTCP-PRACTICE-1
"In Iraq, if the police do enforce the law, action is usually taken against the women while the pimps and sex buyers are given impunity. Sometimes they even help the pimps and brothel owners to continue – while brutally abusing the women who end up in jail" (para 11).
Jan. 2, 2025, 4:36 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"This sector’s normalization is reflected in many urban areas, where its establishments, often concentrated in red-light districts, are nearly as common as convenience stores. And despite legal restrictions on prostitution, enforcement mainly focuses on businesses that exploit sex workers, rather than the individuals themselves, and those involving minors" (par. 10).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"This sector’s normalization is reflected in many urban areas, where its establishments, often concentrated in red-light districts, are nearly as common as convenience stores. And despite legal restrictions on prostitution, enforcement mainly focuses on businesses that exploit sex workers, rather than the individuals themselves, and those involving minors" (par. 10).
Dec. 30, 2024, 11:27 a.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"This desperation is forcing women to break the law by selling sex. Those detained by the police often have to pay bribes to secure their release, adding another layer of jeopardy" (par. 17).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"This desperation is forcing women to break the law by selling sex. Those detained by the police often have to pay bribes to secure their release, adding another layer of jeopardy" (par. 17).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:34 a.m.
Countries: Rwanda
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“For over a decade, Gikondo Transit Center in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, has served as an unofficial detention facility where street children, street vendors, sex workers, homeless people, and beggars are arbitrarily locked away” (1). “Under the new framework, anyone exhibiting ‘deviant behaviors,’ defined as ‘actions or bad behavior such as prostitution, drug use, begging, vagrancy, informal street vending, or any other deviant behavior that is harmful to the public,’ can be held in a transit center for up to two months, without any other further legal justification or oversight” (1). “None of the children were given access to a lawyer, but were instead accused of theft, vagrancy, begging, prostitution,...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“For over a decade, Gikondo Transit Center in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, has served as an unofficial detention facility where street children, street vendors, sex workers, homeless people, and beggars are arbitrarily locked away” (1). “Under the new framework, anyone exhibiting ‘deviant behaviors,’ defined as ‘actions or bad behavior such as prostitution, drug use, begging, vagrancy, informal street vending, or any other deviant behavior that is harmful to the public,’ can be held in a transit center for up to two months, without any other further legal justification or oversight” (1). “None of the children were given access to a lawyer, but were instead accused of theft, vagrancy, begging, prostitution,...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:34 a.m.
Countries: Rwanda
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The government made efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts. The government deployed officers to discourage consumers from frequenting commercial sex locations by arresting women in the commercial sex industry” (para 10).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The government made efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts. The government deployed officers to discourage consumers from frequenting commercial sex locations by arresting women in the commercial sex industry” (para 10).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:32 a.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Police in the two countries carried out a series of raids against the sex traffickers’ network and in the process rescued women who were brought into Europe under false pretenses, kidnapped, and made to serve as prostitutes whenever a client called upon them” (para 1).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Police in the two countries carried out a series of raids against the sex traffickers’ network and in the process rescued women who were brought into Europe under false pretenses, kidnapped, and made to serve as prostitutes whenever a client called upon them” (para 1).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:32 a.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“At the end of October, Polish police officers carried out 82 searches across the country and arrested 44 suspects aged between 18 and 66. The preliminary analysis and the searches led to the identification of 15 500 files of both video and photographic material depicting the sexual abuse of children, and to the seizure of 350 large-capacity digital storage units” (para 2).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“At the end of October, Polish police officers carried out 82 searches across the country and arrested 44 suspects aged between 18 and 66. The preliminary analysis and the searches led to the identification of 15 500 files of both video and photographic material depicting the sexual abuse of children, and to the seizure of 350 large-capacity digital storage units” (para 2).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:29 a.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Results indicate that police crackdown is usually experienced by sex workers at street hot spots and in brothels and are often associated with brutality, human rights abuses, and extortion, which have negative impacts on the livelihoods and general well-being of sex workers” (para 1). “Therefore, as part of the control measures to regulate sex work and sex workers’ activities in Nigeria, police usually embark on crackdowns on brothels and other places used for sex work activities. Police raids are often carried out at will, and arrests are made indiscriminately during the raids” (para 13). “Many of the police raids are characterized by police unethical misconducts, human rights abuses, and violence...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Results indicate that police crackdown is usually experienced by sex workers at street hot spots and in brothels and are often associated with brutality, human rights abuses, and extortion, which have negative impacts on the livelihoods and general well-being of sex workers” (para 1). “Therefore, as part of the control measures to regulate sex work and sex workers’ activities in Nigeria, police usually embark on crackdowns on brothels and other places used for sex work activities. Police raids are often carried out at will, and arrests are made indiscriminately during the raids” (para 13). “Many of the police raids are characterized by police unethical misconducts, human rights abuses, and violence...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:29 a.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“According to the Nigerian constitution, sex work itself is not criminalised rather the people that benefit from the proceeds of sex work are the focus of the laws. All aspects of sex work are illegal in all of the Northern States that adopt an Islamic Penal Code. In Southern Nigeria, the activities of third parties, underage sex work and the operation or ownership of brothels are penalised under sections 223, 224 and 225 of the Nigerian Criminal Code. In addition, a sex worker can be punished when caught negotiating sex aggressively with a client. The law that is used to punish sex workers in this situation is chapter 24 of...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“According to the Nigerian constitution, sex work itself is not criminalised rather the people that benefit from the proceeds of sex work are the focus of the laws. All aspects of sex work are illegal in all of the Northern States that adopt an Islamic Penal Code. In Southern Nigeria, the activities of third parties, underage sex work and the operation or ownership of brothels are penalised under sections 223, 224 and 225 of the Nigerian Criminal Code. In addition, a sex worker can be punished when caught negotiating sex aggressively with a client. The law that is used to punish sex workers in this situation is chapter 24 of...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:20 a.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The committee released its review on time in 2008. It found that the number of sex workers had not increased and that most sex workers were better off following decriminalisation. Another study noted that ‘The most commonly observed impact [of the PRA] was an improved sense of well-being in sex workers, attributed to their new rights and to the fact that sex work was no longer deemed ‘criminal’’” (para 10). “Sex workers are now less tolerant of poor working conditions and expect safe environments that will uphold their rights. They expect the justice system to safeguard these labour and human rights. Successful prosecutions have taken place against those who seek...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The committee released its review on time in 2008. It found that the number of sex workers had not increased and that most sex workers were better off following decriminalisation. Another study noted that ‘The most commonly observed impact [of the PRA] was an improved sense of well-being in sex workers, attributed to their new rights and to the fact that sex work was no longer deemed ‘criminal’’” (para 10). “Sex workers are now less tolerant of poor working conditions and expect safe environments that will uphold their rights. They expect the justice system to safeguard these labour and human rights. Successful prosecutions have taken place against those who seek...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:18 a.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The impacts of decriminalisation in New Zealand are well documented. Research, which informed the evaluation of the PRA carried out by a review committee five years after it was passed, provided compelling evidence that decriminalisation is a legislative approach that works. In this study, over 90 per cent of participants reported feeling that they had rights after the law change. The power of these rights was demonstrated in 2014 when a sex worker won a sexual harassment case against a brothel operator. Research has also found that decriminalisation results in improved relationships between police and street-based sex workers, since the police are no longer required to enforce soliciting laws, meaning...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“The impacts of decriminalisation in New Zealand are well documented. Research, which informed the evaluation of the PRA carried out by a review committee five years after it was passed, provided compelling evidence that decriminalisation is a legislative approach that works. In this study, over 90 per cent of participants reported feeling that they had rights after the law change. The power of these rights was demonstrated in 2014 when a sex worker won a sexual harassment case against a brothel operator. Research has also found that decriminalisation results in improved relationships between police and street-based sex workers, since the police are no longer required to enforce soliciting laws, meaning...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:17 a.m.
Countries: New Zealand
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“An in-depth review in 2023 revealed similar concerns, and pointed out that brothel inspections, which were mandated by the legislation are not happening” (para 10).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“An in-depth review in 2023 revealed similar concerns, and pointed out that brothel inspections, which were mandated by the legislation are not happening” (para 10).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:15 a.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“While the actual sale of sex is not in the criminal code, other laws make it nearly impossible to sell sex without committing a crime” (2). “Soliciting for prostitution is criminalised for people of all genders, which means clients may also be criminalised although the law does not seem to be enforced this way with sex workers much more likely to be arrested” (2).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“While the actual sale of sex is not in the criminal code, other laws make it nearly impossible to sell sex without committing a crime” (2). “Soliciting for prostitution is criminalised for people of all genders, which means clients may also be criminalised although the law does not seem to be enforced this way with sex workers much more likely to be arrested” (2).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:13 a.m.
Countries: Mauritius
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Prostitutes have not only been stigmatised, but also treated as criminals and prosecuted” (para 1). “According to statistics, most of them have been groomed, abused, and sold since a young age. Procurers sell them against the promise of money and others buy them for sexual gratification. Those women are victims. A victim is defined as a person that suffers harm, injury or death as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action. It also includes people who are tricked or swindled. How come then both perpetrators and victims face prosecution?” (para 16).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Prostitutes have not only been stigmatised, but also treated as criminals and prosecuted” (para 1). “According to statistics, most of them have been groomed, abused, and sold since a young age. Procurers sell them against the promise of money and others buy them for sexual gratification. Those women are victims. A victim is defined as a person that suffers harm, injury or death as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action. It also includes people who are tricked or swindled. How come then both perpetrators and victims face prosecution?” (para 16).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:10 a.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"You don't break the law when you have sex, the act itself, but when you get money, yet. No one has been charged yet with living of proceeds, it is very hard to prove. Most prostitutes are arrested for loitering with immoral purposes. When they are taken to court, they just say yes and pay 500 Kenyan Shilings. If they say no it means a long court case and a lot of money, which they don't have. It is very illogical because it costs a lot to arrest a sex worker. The police officer, the vehicle, the court people, the judge, everything needs money and the court only gets 500...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"You don't break the law when you have sex, the act itself, but when you get money, yet. No one has been charged yet with living of proceeds, it is very hard to prove. Most prostitutes are arrested for loitering with immoral purposes. When they are taken to court, they just say yes and pay 500 Kenyan Shilings. If they say no it means a long court case and a lot of money, which they don't have. It is very illogical because it costs a lot to arrest a sex worker. The police officer, the vehicle, the court people, the judge, everything needs money and the court only gets 500...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:09 a.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“In Kazakhstan, there is no criminal or administrative liabilities for engaging in sex work. However, the Code of Administrative Offences contains Article 449 'Harassment in Public Places', under which the women are detained and fined” (para 3).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“In Kazakhstan, there is no criminal or administrative liabilities for engaging in sex work. However, the Code of Administrative Offences contains Article 449 'Harassment in Public Places', under which the women are detained and fined” (para 3).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:08 a.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Sex work in Kazakhstan is quasi-decriminalized such that selling sex is not illegal, but solicitation in public areas, operating a brothel, or engaging in trafficking are subject to prosecution (Crago, 2009). Drug use and drug possession are criminalized (Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, 2021), leaving female sex workers who use drugs vulnerable to regular and systemic extortion, detention, harassment, physical and verbal abuse, and sexual coercion from law enforcement” (para 2). “A report documenting police violence against 60 female sex workers in Kazakhstan found that nearly all faced extortion (90%), were denied legal assistance (92%), and experienced physical abuse or torture (78%), while over half were forced to undergo HIV testing...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Sex work in Kazakhstan is quasi-decriminalized such that selling sex is not illegal, but solicitation in public areas, operating a brothel, or engaging in trafficking are subject to prosecution (Crago, 2009). Drug use and drug possession are criminalized (Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, 2021), leaving female sex workers who use drugs vulnerable to regular and systemic extortion, detention, harassment, physical and verbal abuse, and sexual coercion from law enforcement” (para 2). “A report documenting police violence against 60 female sex workers in Kazakhstan found that nearly all faced extortion (90%), were denied legal assistance (92%), and experienced physical abuse or torture (78%), while over half were forced to undergo HIV testing...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:05 a.m.
Countries: Indonesia
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“While sex work is not illegal in Indonesia, those working in the industry are often prosecuted under other laws such as the country’s anti-pornography legislation. In 2014, Semarang Regency, where Bandungan is located, passed legislation outlawing sex work, only to revoke it the following year and pass new legislation granting sex workers some rights, including protection from prosecution” (para 8). “There are more raids during Ramadan but sex workers still have to provide for their families and, with the Eid holiday, they need to make and save even more money to pay for everything, while at the same time, there are fewer and fewer clients" (para 19).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“While sex work is not illegal in Indonesia, those working in the industry are often prosecuted under other laws such as the country’s anti-pornography legislation. In 2014, Semarang Regency, where Bandungan is located, passed legislation outlawing sex work, only to revoke it the following year and pass new legislation granting sex workers some rights, including protection from prosecution” (para 8). “There are more raids during Ramadan but sex workers still have to provide for their families and, with the Eid holiday, they need to make and save even more money to pay for everything, while at the same time, there are fewer and fewer clients" (para 19).
Dec. 26, 2024, 2:01 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Entre 2019 y 2020 al menos una docena trabajadoras sexuales fueron asesinadas en Honduras, cifra que enciende las alarmas de las organizaciones de derechos humanos en el país, que denuncian la poca atención que le han dado los cuerpos policiales, muchos de ellos acusados de abusos y agresiones contra este sector social, según denuncias documentadas por el CONADEH” (para 4). Translation: Between 2019 and 2020, at least a dozen sex workers were murdered in Honduras, a figure that has raised alarm bells for human rights organizations in the country, which denounce the lack of attention that has been given to them by the police forces, many of whom are accused...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Entre 2019 y 2020 al menos una docena trabajadoras sexuales fueron asesinadas en Honduras, cifra que enciende las alarmas de las organizaciones de derechos humanos en el país, que denuncian la poca atención que le han dado los cuerpos policiales, muchos de ellos acusados de abusos y agresiones contra este sector social, según denuncias documentadas por el CONADEH” (para 4). Translation: Between 2019 and 2020, at least a dozen sex workers were murdered in Honduras, a figure that has raised alarm bells for human rights organizations in the country, which denounce the lack of attention that has been given to them by the police forces, many of whom are accused...more
Dec. 26, 2024, 2 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Ms. Hernández was 26 when she was found shot in the eye on a Honduras street, a slug of unknown caliber and a used condom beside her body[…]Twelve years later, investigators still have not run forensic tests on that evidence” (para 2-3). This shows that enforcement of the laws when it pertains sex workers is not strict or regulated (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "Krishna Flores, 24, a transgender sex worker in Tegucigalpa, the capital, said she had been assaulted twice this year. Police officers cut off her hair, burned her makeup and purse and lobbed tear gas at her" (para 17).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Ms. Hernández was 26 when she was found shot in the eye on a Honduras street, a slug of unknown caliber and a used condom beside her body[…]Twelve years later, investigators still have not run forensic tests on that evidence” (para 2-3). This shows that enforcement of the laws when it pertains sex workers is not strict or regulated (MCP - CODER COMMENT). "Krishna Flores, 24, a transgender sex worker in Tegucigalpa, the capital, said she had been assaulted twice this year. Police officers cut off her hair, burned her makeup and purse and lobbed tear gas at her" (para 17).
Dec. 26, 2024, 1:56 a.m.
Countries: Czech Republic
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Other countries, like the Czech Republic, take a much more lax approach. Even though the Czechs follow the same principles as the Italians – brothels and pimping are banned – these rules are hardly enforced. Brothels in Prague are simply renamed ‘clubs,’ or ‘erotic show venues,’ and they receive the police’s blessing. Nevertheless, Czech sex workers are wary of contacting law enforcement if they are abused. Many claim that a combination of social stigma and a lack of official recognition by the state makes them mistrust government agencies. Because the activity is unregulated, sex workers are not taxed, but also cannot receive social insurance or pension benefits” (para 17).more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“Other countries, like the Czech Republic, take a much more lax approach. Even though the Czechs follow the same principles as the Italians – brothels and pimping are banned – these rules are hardly enforced. Brothels in Prague are simply renamed ‘clubs,’ or ‘erotic show venues,’ and they receive the police’s blessing. Nevertheless, Czech sex workers are wary of contacting law enforcement if they are abused. Many claim that a combination of social stigma and a lack of official recognition by the state makes them mistrust government agencies. Because the activity is unregulated, sex workers are not taxed, but also cannot receive social insurance or pension benefits” (para 17).more
Dec. 26, 2024, 1:55 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"One of the most common of these is called zina, or sex outside of marriage, which victims of rape can also be accused of. Running away from home also falls into this bracket, and is punishable by up to 15 years in prison" (para 2). If any sex outside of marriage is considered zina, and victims of rape are accused and punished due to zina, then it would also be applicable to women who do sex work, willingly or otherwise, and could be an avenue used to criminalize women in the sex industry (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"One of the most common of these is called zina, or sex outside of marriage, which victims of rape can also be accused of. Running away from home also falls into this bracket, and is punishable by up to 15 years in prison" (para 2). If any sex outside of marriage is considered zina, and victims of rape are accused and punished due to zina, then it would also be applicable to women who do sex work, willingly or otherwise, and could be an avenue used to criminalize women in the sex industry (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 26, 2024, 1:54 a.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“In a March 2012 report, ‘I Had to Run Away’: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls for ‘Moral Crimes’ in Afghanistan,’ Human Rights Watch documented that some 95 percent of girls and 50 percent of women imprisoned in Afghanistan were accused of the ‘moral crimes’ of ‘running away’ from home or zina (sex outside of marriage)” (para 4). "Zina is a crime under Afghan law, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Some women and girls have been convicted of zina after being raped or forced into prostitution" (para 6).
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“In a March 2012 report, ‘I Had to Run Away’: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls for ‘Moral Crimes’ in Afghanistan,’ Human Rights Watch documented that some 95 percent of girls and 50 percent of women imprisoned in Afghanistan were accused of the ‘moral crimes’ of ‘running away’ from home or zina (sex outside of marriage)” (para 4). "Zina is a crime under Afghan law, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Some women and girls have been convicted of zina after being raped or forced into prostitution" (para 6).
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:29 p.m.
Countries: Ireland
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"The number of people being prosecuted for buying sex is set to hit record levels with more than 300 charges brought in the first three months of the year, The Sunday Times can reveal. The first-quarter surge in prosecutions in the Republic of Ireland compares with 348 people charged in all of 2023 and 401 people prosecuted in 2022, according to garda figures" (para 1-2). "Ruth Breslin, a lead researcher at the sexual exploitation research programme at UCD, said the garda figures were positive in that more people were being prosecuted. A total of 1,995 people have been charged with buying sex since it became an offence in February 2017....more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"The number of people being prosecuted for buying sex is set to hit record levels with more than 300 charges brought in the first three months of the year, The Sunday Times can reveal. The first-quarter surge in prosecutions in the Republic of Ireland compares with 348 people charged in all of 2023 and 401 people prosecuted in 2022, according to garda figures" (para 1-2). "Ruth Breslin, a lead researcher at the sexual exploitation research programme at UCD, said the garda figures were positive in that more people were being prosecuted. A total of 1,995 people have been charged with buying sex since it became an offence in February 2017....more
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:53 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"With little public attention, New York City has reversed how it polices prostitution, going from 20,000 annual arrests in 1985 to barely more than 100 this year. The plunge in arrests, gradual over the last decade, accelerated last year with decisions by borough district attorneys to stop prosecuting sex workers and dismiss thousands of open cases against those charged with selling sex" (para 1-2). "Statistics compiled by Gothamist show just how stark the shift has been. As of mid-December, 115 people had been arrested this year for prostitution-related offenses across the five boroughs, an NYPD spokesperson said. In 1985, a peak year for New York City’s vice crackdowns, cops made...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"With little public attention, New York City has reversed how it polices prostitution, going from 20,000 annual arrests in 1985 to barely more than 100 this year. The plunge in arrests, gradual over the last decade, accelerated last year with decisions by borough district attorneys to stop prosecuting sex workers and dismiss thousands of open cases against those charged with selling sex" (para 1-2). "Statistics compiled by Gothamist show just how stark the shift has been. As of mid-December, 115 people had been arrested this year for prostitution-related offenses across the five boroughs, an NYPD spokesperson said. In 1985, a peak year for New York City’s vice crackdowns, cops made...more
Aug. 28, 2024, 10:51 a.m.
Countries: Rwanda
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Chantal doesn't know all of the 18 women who were killed over the few weeks between July and August 2012, or the two women murdered last year, but she was very close to one of the victims, who was her neighbour. She speaks fondly of her, and then proceeds to tell us how she and her colleagues fear becoming the next victims...'No one cares about prostitutes,' she says. 'Everyone is worried, we ask ourselves day after day, will it be me tomorrow?'" (para 4-5). "In November 2012, Rwandan media reported that police had arrested eight suspects in relation to the killings. According to the National Public Prosecution Authority one man...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
"Chantal doesn't know all of the 18 women who were killed over the few weeks between July and August 2012, or the two women murdered last year, but she was very close to one of the victims, who was her neighbour. She speaks fondly of her, and then proceeds to tell us how she and her colleagues fear becoming the next victims...'No one cares about prostitutes,' she says. 'Everyone is worried, we ask ourselves day after day, will it be me tomorrow?'" (para 4-5). "In November 2012, Rwandan media reported that police had arrested eight suspects in relation to the killings. According to the National Public Prosecution Authority one man...more
Aug. 26, 2024, 1:17 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“'I was raped. There was a captain who always came looking for me. He would take me in his patrol car to the Ancón hilltop [a Panama City neighborhood], and we would have sexual intercourse. After a while, it became this kind of game for him, to come pick me up and have sex with me'” (para 2). "A nationwide survey of 317 sex workers published in December 2017 shows the scale of the problem. The majority of respondents claimed to have been extorted by security forces, and nearly half said that officers requested free sexual services from them. A third said that they had been threatened with a firearm,...more
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5
“'I was raped. There was a captain who always came looking for me. He would take me in his patrol car to the Ancón hilltop [a Panama City neighborhood], and we would have sexual intercourse. After a while, it became this kind of game for him, to come pick me up and have sex with me'” (para 2). "A nationwide survey of 317 sex workers published in December 2017 shows the scale of the problem. The majority of respondents claimed to have been extorted by security forces, and nearly half said that officers requested free sexual services from them. A third said that they had been threatened with a firearm,...more