Backpage.com Cut Off From Credit Card System Over Sex Trafficking Claims
The Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, asked Visa and MasterCard to cut ties with the site, alleging its service contributes to “increasing the enslavement of…
Online Prostitution and Trafficking
The use of Internet technologies to traffic women and children to prostitution will be described in this article. This law review summarizes the history of…
Assessing Evidence, Arguments, and Inequality in Bedford v. Canada
Bedford v. Canada ruled that parliament could not impose on where or when prostitution is conducted, as long as it does not infringe on others'…
Does Legal Prostitution Increase Trafficking?
This paper by three economists investigates the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking. The empirical analysis of a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows...
Ridiculing Victims of Trafficking
“The daily comics are not known to be bastions of feminist thought but a strip in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday September 29, 2012...
Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
Author of Female Sexual Slavery Kathleen Barry, proposes a feminist human rights treaty to abolish prostitution. The author, long active in global human rights, argues...
Campaign to Raise Awareness of Prostitution’s Harms
Copyright © 2012 Ruhama. All rights reserved. Ruhama, a Dublin-based NGO, is running a radio and poster campaign to raise awareness about the harms to...
