Chinese sex workers face 'horrifying' abuse

Chinese sex workers are subjected to widespread abuse by authorities including beatings and torture in police custody and detention without trial, says Human Rights Watch.

• Syphillis jumps in China
• Prostitution: Woman executed
• China gives brothel bosses death

London sex workers feel the recession

Sex workers in London are being forced to slash prices they charge clients because of the impact of the recession on the British economy, putting themselves at greater risk of attack, says a report.

• Teens plead not guilty to pimping kids
• Berlusconi had a 'prostitution system'
• N Zealand bans students from prostitution

FBI agent denies paying for sex

An undercover FBI agent has denied accusations that he spent taxpayer dollars on prostitutes in the Philippines for himself and others during a weapons trafficking probe, say court documents.

• US Secret Service, marines hired 20 women

150-year-old brothel fights closure

Sex workers at a 150-year-old brothel in Bangladesh are fighting against Islamic protesters who want the business to close.

• Australian mega-brothel gets go-ahead
• Swiss city mulls garages for prostitutes
• German pavement 'sex meter' a success

Australian mega-brothel gets go-ahead

A Sydney brothel has received the green light for a multi-million-dollar expansion which will see it become Australia's largest sex premises.

• Sydney brothel goes big

Secret Service scandal 'wider than thought'

Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama, says a US senator.

• 2 more US Secret Service agents resign
• Secret Service tries to quell sex scandal
• 3 leave Secret Service over sex scandal

US: 3 jailed for running prostitution ring

Three brothers accused of smuggling women from Mexico and Central America into the US and forcing them into a multistate prostitution ring have been sentenced to prison, say officials.

• Spain busts voodoo prostitution ring
• Probe into hotel prostitute ring
• Cops free 21 sex slaves

Ruby: Berlusconi told me to lie

The nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial told friends he was ready to pay millions for her silence, wiretaps have revealed.

• Berlusconi makes appearance at sex trial
• Strip shows were burlesque contests: Berlusconi
• 'Nuns' stripped for Berlusconi

3 leave Secret Service over sex scandal

The US Secret Service says three employees will leave their jobs over the sex scandal in a hotel in Colombia which tarnished the elite presidential protection agency's image.

• US Secret Service, marines hired 20 women
• US Secret Service sex scandal swells
• Secret Service agents sent home for 'misconduct'

Swiss city mulls garages for prostitutes

Residents of the Swiss city of Zurich will vote on whether to build dedicated garages where prostitutes can ply their trade, in a proposal aimed at moving them away from residential zones.

• German pavement 'sex meter' a success
• Sex on the menu at US Dunkin' Donuts
• Brothels see red over rules

Prostitutes made safe...

...but not in the way you think. Sex workers in Spain have been ordered to wear reflective vests to reduce accidents.

SWC child prostitution fears

Lesotho-born Thato was brought to SA at age three, by a woman simply known as "granny". Five years later, she was sold into sexual slavery.

• Sex workers held for robbery
• 2010 to draw human trafficking
• 10 000 child prostitutes in Jhb

Malawi law to protect sex work

Malawi is preparing a law to protect sex workers against abuse in a move that could help fight HIV/Aids.

• Malawi gets $30m to fight Aids

Prostitutes 'deserve dignity'

Prostitutes deserve to be treated with dignity and enjoy human rights guaranteed to all people by the Constitution, Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane says.

• Cops save 92 from prostitution
• 10 000 child prostitutes in Jhb
• Prostitution 'legitimises crime'