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The article discusses the arrest of 281 people involved in child prostitution activities by law enforcement agents with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local officials in June 2014 as part of a stronger nationwide effort to enforce laws prohibiting prostitution.

The article offers news briefs in the U.S. as of March 21, 2014 including the police raids on the home of Rhode Island's House speaker Gordon D. Fox, the battle over police exemption on sex with prostitutes in Hawaii and the rejection of a death row inmate's request in Ohio to donate his organ.

The article discusses a ruling by Canada's Supreme Court on December 20, 2013, which struck down parts of the country's prostitution laws, citing the laws' potential for violating prostitutes' basic rights.

The article reports on the unanimous voting of the Canadian Supreme Court to regulate the sex trade laws in the country.

The author reflects on the legislative bill passed by the lower house of the French Parliament which will impose fines to those paying for sex while providing assistance to prostitutes for them to leave the sex industry.

The article reports on Indian American lawyer Reema Bajaj and mentions that she had agreed to suspend law license over prostitution.

The article reports on the pimping trial that will be held in France against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who is facing aggravated pimping charges.

The article discusses controversy concerning proposed government policies regarding prostitution in the red-light district of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, focusing on initiatives to reduce sex trafficking without infringing on the privacy of prostitutes as of July 2013.

The article offers news briefs in West Virginia as of June 28, 2013. A golf tournament was hosted by the Champion Training Academy (CTA) to raise money for its athletes in Morgantown. The Huntington Police Department conducted undercover operations which resulted to 17 arrests on prostitution violations. Jeanette Nelson qualified as one of the finalists of the Pillsbury Bake-Off cooking competition.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Pollan Cooks" by Mark Bittman in the April 18, 2013 issue, "Broken Justice in the Bronx" in the April 22, 2013 issue, and the "Free Speech and an Anti-Prostitution Pledge" in the April 23, 2013 issue.

The article discusses a case before the New Mexico Supreme Court that centers on whether two men who allegedly used a Website to make arrangements with prostitutes can be charged with soliciting such services.

I MET her at 2 a.m. on a cold and windy morning in Washington, when she ran over to the outreach van to get a warm cup of coffee. Volunteers were offering condoms and health information to sex workers. She took only two condoms, and I urged her to take more. She told me that although she was worried about H.I.V., she was more afraid of the police. A month earlier, she had been harassed by officers for carrying several condoms. They told her to throw them out. She thought if they picked her up with more than a couple of condoms again, she might be taken to jail on prostitution charges. Her story is not unique. Over the last eight months, Human Rights Watch has interviewed more than 200 current and former sex workers in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and San Francisco. The interviews were part of an investigation into barriers to H.I.V. prevention for sex workers, who, worldwide, are more than 10 times as likely to be infected as the general population. What we found was shocking: While public health departments spend millions of dollars promoting and distributing condoms, police departments are harassing sex workers for carrying them and using them as evidence to support arrests. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An appeals court upheld a ruling striking down most Canadian laws that prevent prostitution, including a ban on brothels. While prostitution is legal in Canada, several laws effectively make it impossible for sex workers to engage in the practice without facing the prospect of arrest. The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that most of those laws were unconstitutional, saying that they endangered prostitutes by forcing them to work on the streets rather than in controlled circumstances indoors and prevented them from taking certain safety precautions, like hiring bodyguards. But the court did uphold laws against soliciting. The federal government is likely to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A woman ran a multimillion-dollar prostitution ring in Manhattan and bragged that she had contacts in law enforcement who would tip her off if she came under scrutiny, prosecutors say. The woman, Anna Gristina, 44, was charged with promoting prostitution, a case built from a five-year investigation by a unit of the Manhattan district attorney's office that pursues cases against the police and other uniformed city workers, according to a transcript of her arraignment on Feb. 23. She pleaded not guilty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BERLIN -- The city of Bonn has begun collecting taxes from prostitutes with an automated pay station similar to a parking meter, proving again that German efficiency knows few if any bounds. Bonn is not the only city in Germany to charge such a tax, but it is the first to hit upon the idea of a ticket machine that prints out receipts for the nightly flat fee of 6 euros (currently about $8.65) for the privilege of streetwalking. The meter went into service over the weekend, and by Monday morning had collected $382 for the city's coffers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the statements of sex-trafficking victims on the need to amend the law on prostitution by criminalising the client and not the victim in India. It highlights the life of survivors of the sex trade who have become community mobilisers and are calling for the need to amend the law so that clients and not victims are held accountable. Moreover, feminist scholar Sheila Jeffreys who is from Australia where prostitution is legal, stated that legalization of prostitution has not helped to combat illegal sex trade in her country.

The article reports on a request forwarded by prosecutors to Parliament seeking authorization to search the offices of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Milan, Italy for documents and computer files linking members of his entourage to women who are allegedly involved in prostitution.

The article offers news briefs related to crime incidents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from November 22 to 28, 2010. A 25-year-old intoxicated man was charged by Sixth District officers with assault due to his attempt to assault another man in the 200 block of South 13th Street. Meanwhile, three men were arrested by the Sixth District officers for summary offenses. Moreover, three males were arrested by the sixth District officers on November 27 for obstructing highway for prostitution.

The article focuses on Ontario Supreme Court ruling that abolished Canada's anti-prostitution laws. According to the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) the ruling will support sex traffickers. In addition, CATW asserts that the ruling will put more women and girls at risk of prostitution.

The article reports on the efforts of lawmakers in Rhode Island to criminalize indoor prostitution in the state. Lawmakers claim that indoor prostitution damages the reputation of the state, disturbs neighbors, encourages sex trafficking and put women in potentially dangerous situations. But those who favor indoor prostitution argues that the prostitution business do not bother anyone and provides a way for prostitutes to support their families. An overview of how prostitution was legalize in the state is given.

The article reports on the harassment and discrimination suit filed by Shelly Resnick, a transsexual woman who was charged with misdemeanor prostitution.

When Proposition K was added to Tuesday's ballot, many people likely snickered at the possibility that San Francisco might take its place alongside such prostitute-friendly havens as Amsterdam and a few rural counties in nearby Nevada. But this week, it became readily apparent that city officials are not laughing anymore about the measure, which would effectively decriminalize the world's oldest profession in San Francisco. At a news conference on Wednesday, Mayor Gavin Newsom and other opponents seemed genuinely worried that Proposition K might pass. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on a proposition in the November 2008 ballot in San Francisco, California that would prohibit the police department and district attorney's office from enforcing laws against prostitution which has drawn a debate among supporters and opponents.

The last time I saw Eliot Spitzer, he encouraged me to write about his work involving prostitution. So here goes. The governor buttonholed me because he wanted credit for passage of a tough state law against sex trafficking. Frankly, he deserves credit, for the law took the innovative step of cracking down on johns by increasing penalties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the impact of legalizing prostitution in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is stated that Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman is of the pinion of legalizing prostitution and to empower the sex workers this way. According to the article, such a step will worsen the situation of trafficking and boost prostitution. The wretched condition of a sex worker is also discussed.

The article reports that the prison system in Mexico City, Mexico is now allowing gay conjugal visits under advisement from the country's National Human Rights Commission. Allowing conjugal visits to an inmate with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual is a move in terms of nondiscrimination regarding sexual preference. The city has also legalized civil union among gay couples and abortion, and is on the process of legalizing prostitution.

The article focuses on the trial of Deborah Jeane Palfrey who is the target of a federal investigation for running a suspected prostitution ring in Washington D.C. A group of anonymous young men created a searchable database of the phone numbers dialed by her business and set it up on www.dcphonelist.com. She wanted to release the data to help the public and press determine her former clients so that they could testify at her trial. This is to justify that her escorts did nothing illegal.

The article reports on the opposition of the Saint Kilda Primary School in Victoria to the plan of the live music venue Greyhound Hotel to build a bathhouse on the second floor of the pub. Opponents argue that under the city's Prostitutional Control Act, a brothel cannot operate within 200 meters of a school. Hotel spokesperson Karina Harcourt said that the bathhouse would not become a brothel. The argument raised by Saint Kilda Primary council Peter Monaghan regarding the issue is presented.