Teen ringleader guilty in Canada prostitution ring

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 02:16

A teenaged girl was found guilty of forcing her peers, including one as young as 13, into prostitution through intimidation and blackmail in Canada`s capital city.

Woman sent to jail for pushing minor into prostitution

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 00:15

A woman who pushed minor girl into prostitution after luring her to city on promise of a job, was sent to 7 years in jail by a Delhi court, which said she forced the victim "into sex trade"

Chinese man executed for keeping, murdering sex slaves

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 19:37

A Chinese man, who kept six female sex slaves in a dungeon and killed two of them, was executed Tuesday.

Despite pressure, Somnath Bharti not willing to quit as Delhi Law Minister

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 09:58

Despite mounting pressure on him to quit as Delhi`s Law Minister, AAP leader Somnath Bharti on Monday said that his party leaders will continue to fight for the real causes of the common man and will even give up their lives for them.

Man in Delhi kills sex worker for `betraying` him

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 01:07

Selling his house and shop and taking loans at heavy rates of interest rates to help a sex worker whom he loved and wanted to marry to pay her debts, a man saw red when she still refused to live with him and murdered her, police said Monday.

Canada`s Supreme Court strikes down curbs on prostitution

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 23:06

Canada`s Supreme Court on Friday struck down key portions of a law that effectively criminalized prostitution by banning brothels and soliciting on the street, declaring this disproportionate.

Man convicted for rape, his woman aide for abetment

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 16:55

The court also asked the government to take necessary steps to frame compensation and rehabilitation programme for victims rescued from the flesh trade.

4 held for luring women into prostitution in New Delhi

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 23:45

Four persons have been arrested in connection with a prostitution racket busted by Chikkaballapur Police who rescued nine women from two brothels in New Delhi, Home Minister K J George informed the Karnataka Legislative Council on Thursday.

Hong Kong`s largest prostitution website "paralysed": Police

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 20:16

Hong Kong authorities have shut down the city`s largest prostitution website and dozens of people including sex workers have been arrested, officials said on Thursday.

France mulls imposing fines for paid sex

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 14:37

The French parliament is going to vote on a new bill for imposing hefty fines for paid sex in the coming week.

Berlusconi accused of bribing witnesses in prostitution trial

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 18:46

An Italian court accused former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday of bribing witnesses to give false testimony in a trial linked to the case in which he has been charged with paying for sex with a minor.

Fierce debate as France looks to punish prostitutes` clients

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 20:07

French lawmakers will next week consider a bill that punishes the clients of prostitutes and has sparked fierce debate in a country with a long history of liberal attitudes to sex.