ISLAMABAD - The Dutch government said Tuesday it is eyeing new laws to regulate prostitution including banning sex workers aged under 21 and handing out permits. The reforms come as the Netherlands works to improve living conditions for sex workers and combat human trafficking, a statement ...

PARIS: French sex workers have lodged a constitutional challenge to a 2016 law making it illegal to pay for sex, reopening a debate on whether women should be free to sell their bodies. On Tuesday, around 30 sex workers backed by nine associations, including a medical NGO, went to the ...

KARACHI - Pakistan already experiencing concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics in two high risk groups of injection drug users (IDUs) and male sex workers (MSWs) including transgenders requires greater focus on health literacy to effectively prevent spread of human immuno viral. Health experts talking to ...

MADRID: Spain’s National Court has ruled against the creation of the first sex workers union that left the feminist Socialist government red in the face on discovering its own administration had approved it. The court, which deals with major cases, announced Wednesday it had cancelled the ...

BARCELONA - Spain's first sex workers union on Friday asked for "the same labour rights" for its members as other workers, criticising the Socialist government for wanting to get rid of it. "Us sex workers deserve the same labour rights as the rest of Spanish society," Conxa Borrell, head of the ...

*Aceh, Indonesia : *A group of amorous couples and alleged sex workers were publicly whipped for breaking Islamic law in Indonesia's Aceh Friday, just a week after the province pledged to move the widely condemned practice indoors. More than a thousand people, including dozens of tourists from ...

NEW DELHI - Of an estimated 20 million commercial sex workers in India, 16 million women and girls are victims of sex trafficking, according to non-governmental organisations. According to Indian government data, less than half of the more than 8,000 human trafficking cases reported in 2016 were ...

NEW DELHI: India has at least 8.6 lakh female sex workers including Andhra Pradesh with highest numbers of 1.56 lakh. 61,000 female sex workers are practicing in National capital Delhi while Karnataka and Maharashtra ranked 3rd and 4th in having female sex workers. According to health ministry ...