Red Light Districts

The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam's mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban "erotic centre".

A first-ever health clinic for sex workers and their families has been opened in Delhi's red-light area, G B Road, with facilities for routine check-ups and treatment.

324 people have died of coronavirus in India with 51 deaths in the last 24 hours, making it the sharpest spike yet. The highly infectious novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has infected 9,352 people in the country, according to the latest data from the Union Health Ministry. Union Ministers and officers returned to their officers at their ministries tod...

Red, orange and green - the colour code for traffic lights will now be used on the country's map to COVID-19 and virus-free zones, and therefore people's movement. After a meeting with at least 13 Chief Ministers on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had indicated that the lockdown will be extened - but there will be relaxations in certain area...

Four Japanese basketball players were sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for paying prostitutes for sex as the regional Olympics was hit by scandal on Monday.

Twenty four girls have been rescued from a women's shelter in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Eighteen girls are still missing and the couple who ran the shelter have been arrested. The matter came to light when a10-year-old girl escaped fromthe shelter and told the cops that "red, white, black cars pi...

Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...

"Growing up, I faced a lot of discrimination," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. "I had everything going against me - a dark skinned Indian girl from a red light area," she explains. However, this woman's interpretation of beauty, life and the place she calls home is beyond inspiring.

Pakistan's oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and sex workers-- Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of vibrant Lahore.

A team of youngsters, consisting children of sex workers at Sonagachi, Kolkata, are heading in Denmark later this month to take part in the Dana Cup, an international youth tournament

One of Indonesia's oldest red-light districts was demolished today in an operation overseen by hundreds of police and troops, as authorities press on with a plan to close all brothel areas in the Muslim-majority country.

Indonesia plans to close all red-light districts in the country by 2019, an official said Wednesday, stepping up a campaign against prostitution after a controversial push to clear up a brothel area of Jakarta.

A Philippine court today convicted a US Marine of killing a Filipina transgender woman in a red light district, in a case that reignited long-simmering anti-American sentiment in the country.

One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in the country.

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.

The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam's mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban "erotic centre".

A first-ever health clinic for sex workers and their families has been opened in Delhi's red-light area, G B Road, with facilities for routine check-ups and treatment.

324 people have died of coronavirus in India with 51 deaths in the last 24 hours, making it the sharpest spike yet. The highly infectious novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has infected 9,352 people in the country, according to the latest data from the Union Health Ministry. Union Ministers and officers returned to their officers at their ministries tod...

Red, orange and green - the colour code for traffic lights will now be used on the country's map to COVID-19 and virus-free zones, and therefore people's movement. After a meeting with at least 13 Chief Ministers on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had indicated that the lockdown will be extened - but there will be relaxations in certain area...

Four Japanese basketball players were sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for paying prostitutes for sex as the regional Olympics was hit by scandal on Monday.

Twenty four girls have been rescued from a women's shelter in Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Eighteen girls are still missing and the couple who ran the shelter have been arrested. The matter came to light when a10-year-old girl escaped fromthe shelter and told the cops that "red, white, black cars pi...

Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...

"Growing up, I faced a lot of discrimination," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. "I had everything going against me - a dark skinned Indian girl from a red light area," she explains. However, this woman's interpretation of beauty, life and the place she calls home is beyond inspiring.

Pakistan's oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and sex workers-- Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of vibrant Lahore.

A team of youngsters, consisting children of sex workers at Sonagachi, Kolkata, are heading in Denmark later this month to take part in the Dana Cup, an international youth tournament

One of Indonesia's oldest red-light districts was demolished today in an operation overseen by hundreds of police and troops, as authorities press on with a plan to close all brothel areas in the Muslim-majority country.

Indonesia plans to close all red-light districts in the country by 2019, an official said Wednesday, stepping up a campaign against prostitution after a controversial push to clear up a brothel area of Jakarta.

A Philippine court today convicted a US Marine of killing a Filipina transgender woman in a red light district, in a case that reignited long-simmering anti-American sentiment in the country.

One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in the country.

Residents of Mumbai's Kamathipura, considered Asia's largest red light district, have mounted a campaign to place a curb on the sex trade in the area. Sex workers however have expressed helplessness, even as activists claim the move would only open up the area to property developers.