• Prostitution in Hong Kong is itself legal, but organised prostitution is illegal, as there are laws against keeping a vice establishment , causing or procuring another to be a prostitute, living on the prostitution of others, or public solicitation. (wikipedia.org)
  • It could be failed contraception, it could be a way of cementing the prostitute to her pimp via the child, and it could be her own desire to create offspring as a form of "social security" for when she gets older and the kids will take care of her. (wanderlust.co.uk)
  • Yet a shift in social thought throughout the era introduced the prostitute as a victim , often lured or forced into sexual slavery by immoral men. (reason.com)
  • Through prostitution, the dignity of all women is degraded, including that of the prostitute herself. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • I begin with the claim that prostitution is service work, and that a full understanding of what this means necessitates a re-reading of social reproduction (SR) theoretical approaches. (are.na)
  • Adherents to this perspective also claim that prostitution is analogous to sex trafficking or sex slavery. (rsc-src.ca)
  • This perspective supports a harm elimination approach and calls upon governments to abolish prostitution using criminal law to ban sex buying and migration and international anti-trafficking laws to eliminate sex trafficking. (rsc-src.ca)
  • The programme aims to abolish the vice among adolescents, especially pupils and students, and prevent public employees from prostitution by 2003. (vietnamembassy-usa.org)
  • It's 1959, and Italy's new Merlin Law seeks to abolish prostitution by closing the country's previously licensed brothels. (dvdtalk.com)
  • Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution and are usually confined to red-light districts in big cities. (artscolumbia.org)
  • In New Zealand, street prostitution, escort services, pimping, and brothels were decriminalized in 2003, and so far sex workers and the New Zealand government have raved about the arrangement. (reason.com)
  • Enhance the protection of children from abuse, including prostitution, child pornography, and forced marriages. (usmission.gov)
  • The Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act was written with a particular focus upon sexual abuse and trafficking of children. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the 1999 global initiative on the prevention of the worst forms of child labour began, Mongolia has made significant progress in creating an enabling environment for national action against child labour. (ilo.org)
  • The risk factors associated with entry into prostitution are identified and prevention is discussed. (johnhoward.ab.ca)
  • Many persons who exchange sex face stigma, poverty, and lack of access to health care and other social services-all of which pose challenges to HIV prevention efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • From that time on, prostitution was permitted within strict limits while prohibiting a whole host of activities surrounding prostitution, such as soliciting for sex and living off "immoral earnings" (working as a pimp ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Abolition is a view that prostitution is immoral and prostitutes and their clients should be prosecuted. (artscolumbia.org)
  • And it's not just a work issue for the people involved in prostitution, but there are a lot of work roles that intersect with theirs. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • A sociological understanding of the issue reveals two main positions that captivate academic thinking: (1) prostitution is principally an institution of hierarchal gender relations that legitimizes the sexual exploitation of prostituted women by male buyers, and (2) prostitution is principally a form of sex work where multiple forms of social inequality (including class, gender, and race) intersect in capitalist societies. (rsc-src.ca)
  • As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good. (acls.org)
  • As far as I know, this is the first social sciences study with in-depth interviews of people who buy sex in Sweden since the introduction of the Sex Purchase Act. (lu.se)
  • [4] From 1879 to 1932, prostitution was legal and regulated, and prostitutes were required to register for licenses, pay tax, and have regular health examination. (wikipedia.org)
  • thus prostitution and empowerment of prostitutes are legal, but regulated in terms of health, location of practice, etc. (artscolumbia.org)
  • The Ministry of Women and Gender Equality had a victims' assistance and protection program that operated psychological, legal, and social assistance centers and shelters throughout the country and maintained an emergency hotline. (state.gov)
  • The Minister of Solidarity provides psychological care, guidance, and administrative and legal support through their Social Action and Solidarity Departments (DASS) teams, which are in all the country's provinces. (state.gov)
  • One recent study of data from Rhode Island-where indoor prostitution was legal in 2003-2009-found the state's rape rate declined significantly over this period, especially in urban areas. (reason.com)
  • Women who are beaten and raped still have little or no legal and social recourse. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • Develop a concrete action plan to encourage and support women's active involvement in economic and political life, including effective measures to increase women's involvement in the economy and formal political institutions by addressing existing legal, social, and cultural barriers. (usmission.gov)
  • Social and legal responses to prostitution are explored and an attempt is made to identify the most effective responses to prostitution. (johnhoward.ab.ca)
  • Whereas we in Sweden criminalise both buying sex and pimping, New Zealand has chosen to incorporate prostitution into standard employment legislation, but also to reduce the vulnerable situation of prostitutes by giving them special legal protection. (lu.se)
  • The feminisation of labour within neoliberal capitalism also makes stable wage work harder to come by, while precarious service labour like prostitution is easier to access, and more often, one of the few options available. (are.na)
  • The current fusing of prostitution and sex trafficking debates has a historical antecedent in earlier stages of capitalism marked by globalization of markets and the international migration of labour. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Instead, what is being sold in sex commerce is not the same as the labour power sold by the worker to the capitalist because prostitution alone exploits the seller's sexual self. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Thus, the social inequalities discernable in sex work indicate that the "prostitution problem" is first and foremost a labour problem. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Child labour is a fundamental principle and rights at work and universally recognized as a threat to sustainable social and economic development. (ilo.org)
  • Over 95 per cent of ILO's 187 member States have ratified the Elimination of Worst Form of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) and nearly 90 per cent, the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) . (ilo.org)
  • Commitments and innovations in labour protection, social protection and labour administration are essential to address child labour in agriculture, domestic work and in informal enterprises. (ilo.org)
  • Committed to eliminating child labour, China ratified the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) on 28 April 1999, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) on 8 August 2002. (ilo.org)
  • Institutional mechanisms were established in the course of the ILO-IPEC projects ' Support to the Proposed National Sub-programme to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour: Time-Bound Measures ' (2005 - 2010), funded by the United States Department of Labor . (ilo.org)
  • The National Committee on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (NC-WFCL), a multistakeholder committee comprising the Government and workers' and employers' representatives, as well as non-government and civil society institutions oversees the overall implementation of the National Action Programme on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (NAP-WFCL) for 2012-2016. (ilo.org)
  • The failure to locate prostitution, now, among other precarious service industry work gives rise to outdated assumptions about the relation of sex work to capital. (are.na)
  • The idea that prostitution is sexual exploitation and analogous to sex trafficking has gained popularity in Canada and other countries in recent decades, but my colleagues and I argue that the most robust evidence supports the understanding of prostitution as principally a form of precarious work. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Those contending prostitution is fundamentally a problem of intersecting social inequalities note that capitalist market globalization, rapid technological innovation, decline of unions and retraction of welfare state policies have resulted in a substantial increase of precarious work in the personal service sector, including growth of sex work jobs. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Most popular mainstream newspapers will carry such classifieds with brothel guides as an insert within racing form guides. (wikipedia.org)
  • The legislation in Bill C-36 is seen by many to fly in the face of the Bedford decision of December 20th, 2013, in which the Supreme Court of Canada struck down criminalization of purchasing and living off the avails of prostitution, as well as brothel keeping, on the grounds that these stipulations present additional dangers for vulnerable women. (mediacoop.ca)
  • Tackling the root causes of prostitution, the report particularly insists on the importance of guaranteeing health, social, educational and economic support to persons in prostitution as poverty and social exclusion are the foundation of this form of sexual exploitation. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • But the films also revealed the great differences that exist both within and among Asian societies due to poverty and social and cultural customs. (lu.se)
  • As the power of corporations expanded and social strife spread, middle-class social workers established settlement houses and other programs to ameliorate human degradation in city slums. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Blood-borne viruses (BBVs) have benefitted from internal political strife, migration, prostitution, intravenous/injection drug use, and defective public health resources in some Central Asian republics and Southeast Asian and sub-Saharan African countries. (cdc.gov)
  • The act also imposes heavier penalties against owners of prostitution businesses and establishments. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Entertainment Places Act of 1966 places the onus upon the owner of certain types of entertainment establishments if prostitution occurs on the premises, thereby making them criminally liable. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term "prostitution establishment" is not clearly defined, although it may be broadly interpreted to include any place where prostitution takes place, especially in regard to cases involving sexual abuse of children that carry heavier penalties (up to six years if the child is younger than 15 years of age)-otherwise, the law is not usually enforced against prostitution in private places. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Act was also written to address child prostitution, but lacks complete clarity, as it does not define what an "indecent act" is. (wikipedia.org)
  • District Attorneys understand that prosecuting cases of human trafficking is different than prosecuting prostitution, child rape, or other sex crimes, but just as important. (pcar.org)
  • This, he said, has affected the lives, and caused the deaths of millions of Africans on the continent and beyond, as well as through the emerging growing phenomena of human trafficking, sexual slavery, child prostitution among others. (thepoint.gm)
  • It is true that Sweden has a high standard of living, low child poverty, high life expectancy, low infant mortality, high spending on education, practically free medical care and an admirable focus on gender equality and social welfare. (imfcanada.org)
  • There has also been evidence of child labor and even [child] prostitution," said Arias. (colombiareports.com)
  • As a case in point, within Sweden, prostitution and human trafficking are understood as one and the same and their eradication is deemed fundamental to the achievement of an egalitarian, democratic society. (rsc-src.ca)
  • He is the founder of the Mireja Institute, which focuses on close relationships as the key to building welfare, development and democracy and author of Following Your Heart in the Social Utopia of Sweden (2007). (imfcanada.org)
  • Putting these facts together Sweden may sound like a social paradise, and our government enjoys presenting this image both to Swedes and to the world. (imfcanada.org)
  • No, Sweden has definite social challenges which can be linked to its family policies. (imfcanada.org)
  • I and another new doctoral student will be comparing Sweden, New Zealand and Germany - three countries with completely different approaches to prostitution. (lu.se)
  • Middle class youth in Shanghai and Delhi probably have more in common with young people in Sweden than they have with their peers working in sweat-shops in Shenzhen or having to sell themselves into prostitution in Bachara. (lu.se)
  • They sometimes draw on feminism and critical race theories to highlight the link between gender, race, slavery, and colonialization and the prostitution of women of colour and Indigenous women. (rsc-src.ca)
  • According to him, even after the formal abolition of slavery, the practice of slavery has endured in different forms through the many acts of racism. (thepoint.gm)
  • He explained that the effects of slavery and racism on African social, economic and political fabric have been debilitating and enduring to this day. (thepoint.gm)
  • Prostitution contributes to social injustice, to say nothing of personal immorality. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • It was to be expected that serious conditions with regard to prostitution would develop in connection with the army on the border, unless prompt, vigorous, up-to-date measures for its control were enforced. (brocku.ca)
  • Ultimately, I hope to instill in my students a sense of social justice with regard to individuals and communities who experience the inequity that social structures can create and maintain as well as a desire to do something about this inequity. (utah.edu)
  • The new bill prohibits the purchase of sex, materially benefiting from the selling of sex, communicating for the purposes of purchasing and selling sex in areas where persons under the age of 18 may be present, and conflates 'prostitution offences' with existing offences relating to human trafficking. (mediacoop.ca)
  • This range of offences is now often facilitated by electronic forms of communication and identity theft. (who.int)
  • The criminal code also stipulates penalties for procuring or using money earned from prostitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Decriminalization means the removal of all statutory penalties for prostitution and things related to its facilitation, such as advertising. (reason.com)
  • Another study focus on hate speech, threats and harassment against social workers, teachers and journalists, and the role of social media in these processes. (lu.se)
  • Legalization, on the other hand, is a stricter regime, wherein the state doesn't prosecute prostitution per se but takes a heavy-handed approach to its regulation. (reason.com)
  • MEPs confirmed their abolitionist position and delivered a powerful message today as they voted in favour of the initiative report on the Regulation of prostitution in the EU: its cross-border implications and impact on gender equality and women's rights drafted by S&D MEP Maria Noichl. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • Human trafficking occurs when a person is forced, coerced, threatened or deceived into performing labor or prostitution. (pcar.org)
  • Maybe for a politician on the make, attacking sex work looks like a total political win: appease the hardcore feminists and appease the social conservatives at the same time? (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Women often supplemented their low wages with occasional prostitution, or, in the absence of employment, turned to prostitution as full-time work. (artscolumbia.org)
  • What Kind of Work is Prostitution? (are.na)
  • More recent work fails to attend to how the reorganisation of capitalism has since enacted changes within the reorganisation of prostitution. (are.na)
  • Focusing on the UK, I argue that the work of prostitution today remains under-theorised within contemporary marxist-feminism. (are.na)
  • It would be useful to know with clarity the ways the makeup, form and location of work has shifted over time, and what degree of movement there is between styles of work. (are.na)
  • Prostitution is a work issue. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • The consequences of political collapse and/or civil war-work migration, prostitution, intravenous drug use, defective public health resources, and poor access to good medical care-all contribute to the spread of blood-borne viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • Swedish family policies are based on a political ideology which strongly argues that the basis for a happy society is daycare for children, paid work for parents and a rather extreme form of gender equality. (imfcanada.org)
  • I have also conducted research on various aspects of E-social work , for example the use of automated decision-making, Artificial Intelligence, apps, video meeting tools and social media in social work. (lu.se)
  • Journal of Social Work. (lu.se)
  • Nordic Social Work Research. (lu.se)
  • Prostitution Viewed Cross-Culturally: Toward Recontextualizing Sex Work in AIDS Intervention Research. (cdc.gov)
  • As such, prostitution is seen as an institution of women's sexual oppression that reinforces their subordination. (rsc-src.ca)
  • 1. Women's health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of women throughout their lifespan and not only their reproductive health. (who.int)
  • 2. Women's biological vulnerability, low social status, limited access to health services, low level of literacy and lack of decision-making powers are major determinants of ill-health. (who.int)
  • Feminism and Women's NGOs as a Social Movement. (lu.se)
  • Escort or out-call prostitution often shelters under the umbrella of escort agencies, who supply attractive escorts for social occasions. (artscolumbia.org)
  • the 1966 Human Rights Covenants and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (unhcr.org)
  • Although a persistent phenomenon throughout human history, it remains difficult to view prostitution in an objective light as various cultures have alternately tried to ban it on religious or moralistic grounds, or stigmatize it under a "don't-ask-don't-tell" sort of veneer which was a barely-tolerated but necessary evil of society. (artscolumbia.org)
  • We need education that promotes health, safety, and human dignity as opposed to the continued policing of bodies, which is an ongoing form of colonial violence" said Cortney Dakin, a social service provider in London, ON. (mediacoop.ca)
  • loopholes in the existing laws allowed some forms of human trafficking to escape prosecution. (wikinews.org)
  • The same year's Never on Sunday became an international success story but Adua has a more hard-edged take on human nature and social hypocrisy. (dvdtalk.com)
  • The regional response team is the first in Pennsylvania to focus on human trafficking and is comprised of law enforcement, advocates, social services and professional trade associations. (pcar.org)
  • When people hear human trafficking-whether for prostitution or labor-they sometimes think it is a problem outside their concern or something that does not happen in Central Pennsylvania," PCAR Chief Executive Officer Delilah Rumburg said. (pcar.org)
  • This is a milestone for women in Europe as they account for 90% of persons in prostitution and 87% of victims of trafficking of human beings for sexual exploitation purposes. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • We are also concerned that local children and foreign women are often subjected to various forms of human trafficking, including forced prostitution and domestic servitude. (usmission.gov)
  • Pass a law to criminalize all forms of human trafficking and ratify the 2000 United Nations Trafficking in Persons Protocol. (usmission.gov)
  • Petra Östergren is a social anthropologist who has received SEK 3 million to participate in a major new EU project about how to tackle human trafficking by studying demand. (lu.se)
  • Is human trafficking primarily about prostitution? (lu.se)
  • We will carry out a number of field studies among those who produce demand for services and goods linked to human trafficking: domestic services, prostitution and goods produced in inhumane conditions. (lu.se)
  • There was a strong commitment to the issue, but without the moralistic undertones that so often characterise any discussions of human trafficking and prostitution. (lu.se)
  • Under the act, the definition of "prostitution" is "Sexual intercourse, or any other act, or the commission of any other act in order to gratify the sexual desire of another person in a promiscuous manner in return for money or any other benefit, irrespective of whether the person who accepts the act and the person who commits the act are of the same sex or not. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yellow neon advertising boxes were used to advertise sexual services to such an extent that "yellow" (黃) became synonymous with prostitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Legally, Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. (artscolumbia.org)
  • It is interesting to note that despite an increasingly secularized attitude towards sexual relationships, as seen in society's increasing tolerance of homosexuality or pre-marital sex, prostitution retains much of its social stigma. (artscolumbia.org)
  • Many areas have adopted or are considering what's known as the "Swedish" or " Nordic Model ," which criminalizes the buying, rather than the selling, of sexual services (because, as the logic goes, purchasing sex is a form of male violence against women, thus only customers should be held accountable). (reason.com)
  • Prostitution, payment for the exchange of sexual services, has long been a source of heated debate-about its morality, legitimacy, and treatment by governments. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Surrogacy is the reproductive objectification of women just as prostitution is the sexual objectification of women. (bioedge.org)
  • This book examines the cultural dynamics and social dilemmas that informed the construction of American sexual character -a term I use to describe sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood as uniquely American-between the close of World War II and the early 1960s. (ucpress.edu)
  • rather, it maps the broader field of American sexual character by looking at themes and tensions in social scientists' and cultural critics' writings about sex in the United States. (ucpress.edu)
  • They understood that it is not realistic to label prostitution as anything other than violence because it will never soften the harsh, sexist, classist and racist harm behind the purchase of sexual acts. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • Reproductive and sexual health1 is fundamental to individuals, couples and families, and the social and economic development of communities and nations. (who.int)
  • Chancroid was once highly prevalent in many areas of the world, but collaborated efforts to increase social awareness and subsequent changes in sexual practices, along with improved diagnosis and treatment options, have eradicated chancroid as an endemic disease in industrialized countries. (medscape.com)
  • Although organised prostitution is illegal, the industry had always been under the influence of triads to recruit economically disadvantaged women who otherwise would never enter the profession voluntarily. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chasnoff's documentary on prostitution gives voice to a group of 13 African American women, many of whom were beaten, raped or arrested during their involvement in the sex trade. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • In the film, you said women in prostitution are both invisible and visible at the same time. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • Women in prostitution are the most visible of the transaction. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • On the contrary, it's decriminalizing prostitution that could make women-in and outside the sex industry-safer. (reason.com)
  • If we really want to try something new-and something that has a real chance at decreasing violence against women-we should decriminalize prostitution altogether. (reason.com)
  • Those championing the perspective that prostitution is principally an institution of hierarchal gender relations contend that women cannot freely choose to participate in prostitution because they are not autonomous/unsituated subjects within patriarchal capitalist societies. (rsc-src.ca)
  • for it means that not only will these men bring back into the social structure a vast volume of venereal disease to wreck the lives of innocent women and children, but they will bring back into it other influences, attitudes, and practices which will destroy homes, cause misery, and degenerate society. (brocku.ca)
  • Grouping together after leaving an abusive man, after exiting prostitution, or after being raped is an act of resistance against the abusers' tactic of silencing and isolating women. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • Some women join us or form other groups to assist women, not only to strategize how to take on their own attackers but also to put themselves to the greater fight of ending male violence against women. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • The isolation women experience because of men's violence has been exacerbated by the social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • Protecting youth is also among MEPs priorities as the report underlines the negative impact of the normalisation of prostitution on the perceptions and expectations young people have in terms of sexuality and relationships between women and men. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • This vote is a clear signal and relief for survivors of prostitution but also for all women and girls in Europe as it recognises prostitution as a form of violence that needs to be combatted and not promoted. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • Firstly, prostitution demeans women by encouraging men to view them as sex objects. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • The main reason women in Australia take up prostitution is money. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • Sociologists and other social scientists are currently describing a disturbing amount of racial and ethnic inequality in the U.S. This course is a historical, theoretical, and ultimately, sociological exploration of American inequality through an examination of racial/ethnic groups and women in the United States. (utah.edu)
  • During this time, many writers, politicians, and social welfare advocates came forward as leaders of the Progressive movement and sought to solve societal problems that were caused by capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. (ipl.org)
  • While most advocates of law reform stop short of saying that prostitution is good, many claim that it is harmless. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • Soon the catch-phrase, reminiscent of other calls to action such as 'we shall overcome' and 'si se puede' for underserved populations and populations of color in U.S. history facing issues of social inequality, became a popular music video released by hip-hop musician and raper Will.i.am. (utah.edu)
  • This wedding of issues of social inequality in U.S. politics and society with popular culture media such as music and film is the central focus of this course. (utah.edu)
  • [12] During the 1990s, however, Hong Kong saw a massive shift in the form of prostitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, we're seeing a global shift in prostitution attitudes that looks startlingly like the one in Victorian England. (reason.com)
  • Calls for action on the "prostitution problem" rise to the level of high politics during historical periods marked by global capitalism, migration, and tensions related to entrenched class, gender and racial inequalities. (rsc-src.ca)
  • Those adopting this perspective argue that Marx was wrong when he argued that prostitution is only a peculiar example of the general prostitution of all workers under capitalism. (rsc-src.ca)
  • In a number of communities in the vicinity of which troops were located not only were the existing prostitution facilities augmented, but new vice districts were hurriedly built. (brocku.ca)
  • This book describes some of the early history of Chinese Anarchism up to the period after the Bolshevik counter-revolution when Russia began to send Marxist-Leninist missionaries like Chou En-lai to try to try to infiltrate and take over the student movements in Europe. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Collective Action and Social Movements. (lu.se)
  • Persons associating in a "prostitution establishment" with another person for the purpose of prostitution faces a jail term or a fine or both. (wikipedia.org)
  • The report drafted by MEP Maria Noichl encourages Member States to adopt an abolitionist perspective that decriminalises persons in prostitution and highlights the negative effects of decriminalising the so-called "sex-buyers" and exploitative third parties. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • Many social and structural factors make it difficult to prevent and treat HIV among persons who exchange sex for money or nonmonetary items. (cdc.gov)
  • Persons who exchange sex, if under the influence of drugs or alcohol, may have impaired judgment, engage in riskier forms of sex such as anal sex, and have difficulty negotiating safer sex (condom use, for example) with their customers. (cdc.gov)
  • Although Hamas's parent organization, the Islamic Association, did provide health and social care to its citizens, that care was only given to those who embraced its hard-line religious ideology. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Thirdly, prostitution lowers the health of the community by facilitating the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • Fourthly, prostitution impoverishes the community financially by diverting funds to health and welfare programmes. (lifeministries.org.au)
  • Using health models, humanistic and developmental psychology, attachment theory, neurobiology and social psychology, together with years of experience in working with personal development in my consultancy, this created a pretty clear picture. (imfcanada.org)
  • While editing her latest film, "Turning a Corner," an hour-long documentary about prostitution in Chicago, Salome Chasnoff couldn't help but cry. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • Focus Asia in November 2006 took the form of a documentary film festival with the theme Young in Asia . (lu.se)
  • However, due to police corruption and an economic reliance on prostitution dating back to the Vietnam War, it remains a significant presence in the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • Toward this end, progressives engage in a broad range of activities aimed at reforming economic, social, and political institutions and processes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Religious groups promoted a social gospel that raised concerns about poverty, corruption, and the concentration of economic power and called on the moral conscience of the nation. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The totalitarian tyranny is now global with the World Economic Forum's 4th Industrial Revolution, the Great Reset & the social credit system in which the global ruling class has total control over humanity. (bioedge.org)
  • Decriminalization could have potentially large social benefits for the population at large-not just sex market participants," wrote economists Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah in a working paper about their research. (reason.com)
  • Prostitution is known as the "world's oldest profession," and whether it should be criminalized-or not-is one of the oldest debates among social reformers. (reason.com)
  • This study focuses on attempts to control one of the negative consequences of the social change heralded by the advent of colonialism in Lagos as it relates to youths: the social problem called juvenile delinquency. (acls.org)
  • It critically examines the origin and development of social welfare services in the crown colony of Lagos as attempted solutions to new forms of negative social behaviors exhibited by Lagos youths. (acls.org)
  • Chinese authorities at various levels have implemented measures to ensure that children of internal migrant workers have access to social services, especially compulsory education and quality education programme. (ilo.org)
  • This gave birth to the "Genesis Project" where sheriff's deputies offer potential victims of trafficking a comfortable safe haven with amenities for 24 hours, and put them in touch with social services for counselling, job training, and education advice. (wikinews.org)
  • According to the act, sex workers must also undergo rehabilitation for one year at a reform house upon the completion of punishment for practicing prostitution there. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some progressives, such as socialists, sought fundamental change and structural reform to achieve social justice. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Other progressives, such as middle-class professionals, strove for social order and more modest reform. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Despite their varying agendas, shared ideals of antimonopolism, efficiency, and social justice propelled and sustained the diverse progressive reform coalitions. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Corporate dominance inhibited the capacities of the vast majority of Americans to achieve social mobility, and urban-based political party machines were seen as corrupting the democratic process. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Omnipresent in postwar mass culture, the volumes featured centrally in discussions of virtually every topic imaginable, as references to the reports abounded in postwar political coverage, social science and medical writing, general-interest journalism, and even fiction. (ucpress.edu)
  • A refugee is legally defined as a person who is outside his or her country of nationality and is unable to return due to a well-founded fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. (cdc.gov)
  • On 26 April the lectures addressed new developments and research regarding the social and political role of religion in contemporary East and South-East Asian societies. (lu.se)
  • What Grant didn't anticipate, and was also reflected on Borgen this weekend, was that the kickback form the people who would be most affected - sex workers themselves - was not trivial. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • As an issue, it's very visible, especially in gentrifying areas, like Bucktown, where people want to eradicate prostitution from their neighborhoods because of the way it's affecting their property values and their experience of their million-dollar homes. (chicagoreporter.com)
  • Also, the internal resources of motherhood in Brazilian adolescents show a individuals, as well as the different states of multiplicity of causes associated with negative AP, ecological cohesion in the environments to which covering financial issues, school problems, family they belong, as in the social and emotional support conflict and the child's father, and environmental network, assist people in coping with adversity25. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some of these depend on illegal market-based activities, with the criminal taking advantage of demand for goods that are prohibited or highly regulated, as in the case of drugs, prostitution, counterfeit products or trafficking of people. (who.int)
  • Hamas opposes genuine peace with Israel, and used the most pernicious form of violence - suicide bombings - throughout the 1990s to destroy the peace process and prevent compromise. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • With this vote, they made clear that prostitution is a form of violence and that implementing support and exit programmes for survivors is the best way to tackle it. (bfwg.org.uk)
  • Around 15 researchers from eight countries are taking part in the project, the goal of which is to reduce the suffering that results from the worst forms of exploitation. (lu.se)
  • While payment may be any nonsexual consideration, most commonly it is in the form of money. (artscolumbia.org)
  • They say our only struggle now is to "integrate the money," or win wealth for themselves and members of their social class, even though they give lip service to "empowering the poor. (libcom.org)
  • This is what capitalist commodification of all forms of life has brought us to. (bioedge.org)