March 12, 2008 -- John Yates, the Metropolitan police's assistant commissioner, has finally admitted what rape survivors have said for years: that "police are contributing to the 'appalling' conviction rate in rape cases because officers too often fail to take alleged victims seriously enough and settle for mediocrity in their inquiries" More

Prague, May 20, 2008 -- The Czech Republic lacks a law that would regulate prostitution and it is unlikely that such a law will be passed in the near future, Czech Human Rights and Minorities Minister Dzamila Stehlikova told journalists Tuesday. More

PETALING JAYA: Women’s groups have come out in support of the Health Ministry for promoting the use of condoms to combat HIV, but say practising safe sex is the responsibility of both men and women. More

United Republic of Tanzania - The government yesterday urged legal practitioners and human rights activists to go beyond policies and other barriers to help end discrimination of workers living with HIV/Aids and with disabilities.

... Dr Komba told judges and other participants from eight countries (Ethiopia, Zambia, Lesotho, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) that three factors are attributable to abuse of human rights.
... The second is the practice under which disadvantageous groups, like women, children, sex workers, asylum seekers, and drug users became victims of violations of human rights.  More

Commercial sex workers in India now have the option of purchasing life insurance policies, Smarajit Jana -- chief adviser to the group Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, or the Committee for Indomitable Women -- said Monday, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. More

An abattoir worker has been convicted of raping two prostitutes.

Patrick Colleran, 23, formerly of Kingswood, was charged with raping two women and twice raping a third. More

A state in south India has become the country's first to recognise transgender people as a separate sex. More

Phnom Penh - Cambodia's top anti-trafficking official Wednesday pledged an immediate investigation after sex workers tearfully alleged a new zero tolerance policy on brothels had led to rapes, robberies and abuses of human rights by police. More

For six months they have endured worsening physical and sexual abuse at the hands of police over-zealously enforcing a new anti-trafficking law, but now Cambodian sex workers are fighting back.

More than 500 commercial sex workers rallied together on June 4 to protest the massive escalation of violent police raids on brothels and the criminalization of sex work due to new US-backed "model" anti-trafficking legislation, passed in February this year. More