Malawi's government is planning to offer soft loans to sex workers. But will this be enough to get them off the street?The Ministry of Women and Child Development is putting final touches to the project, which aims at reducing high HIV/Aids and improving the economic lives of commercial sex workers.They will be offered low-interest loans to leave prostitution and start up businesses.Critics say the...
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touring Rangashankara at Bangalore, Pune-based director Sushama Deshpande is in Mumbai with her controversial play, and it drew angry protests from a few members of the audience while it was being staged at the 8th Women Playwrights' International Conference.The play that holds a mirror to the daily activities in a red light area, in this case the district of Sangli, has a 24 character cast that consists...
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all have a common story to narrate - stigma and discrimination by the society because of their profession and the disease with which they are infected.Tales of suffering and discrimination were narrated by Bangalore's sex workers when they came together Tuesday at a programme at Town Hall here."It's been a hard life. Most of the time women are forced into sex work. Being a sex worker itself is a stigma...
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all have a common story to narrate - stigma and discrimination by the society because of their profession and the disease with which they are infected.Tales of suffering and discrimination were narrated by Bangalore's sex workers when they came together Tuesday at a programme at Town Hall here."It's been a hard life. Most of the time women are forced into sex work. Being a sex worker itself is a stigma...
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Bangalore, Nov 17 : They all have a common story to narrate - stigma and discrimination by the society because of their profession and the disease with which they are infected.Tales of suffering and discrimination were narrated by Bangalore's sex workers when they came together Tuesday at a programme at Town Hall here."It's been a hard life. Most of the time women are forced into sex work. Being a...
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provincial hockey player has been arrested over an alleged hit-and-run and is being investigated in relation to an attack on a sex worker.Detectives and serious crash unit officers are working together to determine what happened in central Auckland early yesterday.About 4.30am, a sex worker, 43, was assaulted, and minutes later a Wellington woman, 36, was hit by a Ford Laser while getting out of a...
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of the world?s countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as when they reach adolescence or when they are elderly, a new United Nations report has found.Many of the world"s countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as when they reach adolescence or when they are elderly, a new United...
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More and more housewives in Mizoram are falling prey to AIDS due to no fault of their own, but their husbands who comprise a large percentage of the clientele of female sex workers.A study conducted by an NGO has revealed that at least 80 per cent of the clients of female commercial sex workers in Aizawl city are married men who are indulgingalarming rate of HIV/AIDS infections amongst the previoulsy...
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Harassment, torture anddiscrimination are something commercial sex workers (CSW) have to live with. Butwith CSW forming a Crisis Response Cell (CRC) for women engaged in prostitution,help is just a phone call away now.A seven-member committee hasbeen formed with the help of city-based NGO Vikas Jyot Trust (VJT) that workswith this community as part of its AIDS/HIV projects. The committee has beenformed...
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Sony is at the centre of a row after a discussion by its staff on their sex lives was recorded on the camcorder of a customer who had given it for repair.On the tape, a woman and three male workers accidentally recorded themselves as they talked about lovemaking techniques."Do you rub her tootsies?" the Sun quoted the woman as asking one of her colleagues.The customer sent the four-minute recording...
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