In a responsive measure, the party announced that there was a major leadership shake-up and introduced a new code on Saturday (June 5) banning members from hiring sex workers.

Spain's ruling party members can no longer hire sex workers. Here's why

In Japan, sex workers are increasingly facing challenges related to physical violence and extortion. Reports indicate that many individuals in the sex trade encounter harassment, abuse, and threats from both clients and organized crime groups. This violence often goes unreported due to fear of retribution and a lack of legal protection, leaving many vulnerable and isolated.

Japan: Sex Workers Japan Face Physical Violence & Extortion

Hamish Ogston, one of Britain's richest persons, has been accused of exploiting vulnerable sex workers from Southeast Asia. A swathe of documents, details of which were first reported by The Times newspaper, suggest Ogston's involvement in trafficking Thai and Filipina sex workers, hosting women who initially entered the country as tourists but engaged in sex work at his property.

Hamish Ogston sex scandal: Millionaire accused of concealing sex workers as 'bamboo basket weavers'

Investigations into suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, 59-year-old Rex Heuermann, took another grim turn when a walk-in vault with a "big iron door" was found at his home.

Gilgo Beach serial killings: Walk-in vault with big iron door found inside Rex Heuermann’s home

According to a report in the New York Post, the House Oversight Committee has been discussing presenting foreign and American prostitutes, who were sexually engaged with United States President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, before Congress.

Sex workers allegedly seen with Hunter Biden may testify before Congress, says Republican leader

Sex workers living in Germany's capital city, Berlin, are now moving out of the shadows to narrate their history through an audio application, hoping that the step will help fight abuse, the curse of gentrification and stigma.

Sex workers in Berlin emerge from shadows to narrate their history through audio app

South African women's rights groups and all the sex workers are protesting against a man who's been charged for murdering sex workers and this comes after the police discovered six decomposed bodies believed to be of women sex workers.

South Africa: Sex workers protest against 'murderer' in front of Johannesburg court

A panel of the Supreme Court of India has recommended that voluntary sex work is not illegal and therefore, sex workers should not be arrested, penalised, harassed, or victimised.

India's Supreme Court panel recommends that voluntary sex work is not illegal

A recent research by human rights organisation Front Line Defenders has revealed that sex worker activists are among the most at-risk defenders of human rights in the world as they face multiple threats and violent attacks.

Sex workers fighting for human rights are world’s most ‘at risk activists’

Several dozen sex workers protested in front of the Dutch parliament on Tuesday (March 2) against a government decision to ease coronavirus restrictions for some professions but not sex work, normally legal in the Netherlands.

Discrimination, not COVID, keeps us closed- Dutch sex workers

'Oldest profession needs help': Sex workers of Hamburg demand reopening of Germany's brothels

Prostitutes demonstrated in Hamburg's red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that Germany's brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Hamburg sex workers demand Germany's brothels reopen

Sex Markets reopen in Bangkok and Amsterdam, sex workers fight for survival. Get more in this report!

Sex Markets reopen in Bangkok & Amsterdam after lockdown, sex workers fight for survival

Social distancing is keeping people off the streets of Mexico City. And that has created serious challenges for the capital's transgender sex workers, some of whom have lost their income as clients stay away.

Transgender sex workers in Mexico City struggle to survive pandemic

Seattle witnessed the disruption of underground sex trafficking at the hands of a non-profit group that deployed decoy chatbots in conversations with tens of thousands of men.

Non-profit organization fighting sex trafficking with ‘sex worker’ chatbots to deter potential buyers and victims

Often treated as less than human in life, there has been little dignity in death for the sex workers of one of the world's biggest brothels: their bodies frequently tossed into unmarked graves or dumped in the river.

The brothels of Daulatdia: Sex workers to get 'honourable' funeral

Amsterdam's first female mayor launched plans on Wednesday to overhaul the city's red light district and its window displays, in a bid to protect sex workers from gawping tourists.

Amsterdam's first woman mayor plans red light district overhaul

A Pakistani man killed his HIV positive wife Wednesday in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, stirring panic and casting a light on the country’s dismal public health standards.

Pakistan man murders HIV positive wife in epidemic-hit south

When Chinese legislators recommended the abolition of 'education' detention centres where prostitutes and clients can be held without charge for two years, activists hoped the facilities' days were numbered.

China keeps 'education' centres for prostitutes

Reportedly, three Oxfam employees physically threatened a witness in the investigation

Oxfam says former Haiti director admitted hiring sex workers

The sex workers are an integral part of the festivities but they say celebrating it entails too much harassment

India: Bengal's sex workers say they won't celebrate Durga puja this year

Perna women have been sex workers for generations. They have a first child and are then pushed into prostitution by their husbands

My husband, my pimp

Many of these children have to stay in the same dingy room where their mothers ply their trade in the city of Kolkata

Indian sex workers' children to play ball at Denmark tourney

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