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Online safety bill could put sex workers lives at risk, politicians warn

The Online Safety Bill in the UK could push sex workers into more dangerous situations

Removing online adverts can lead to sex workers resorting to street-based prostitution [ more ]

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Trailblazing transgender lawmaker Georgina Beyer dies at 65

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Georgina Beyer, a trailblazing New Zealand politician who in 1999 became the world's first openly transgender member of Parliament, died Monday at the age of 65.Friends of Beyer said she died peacefully in hospice care.

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Wellness

Don't Call Me by My Real Name

Clients love to ask sex workers, What's your real name?It's a power move.I know you contain multitudes is what they mean, and I have the right to see.They paid, after all.The clients who asked this question of me were usually the type who had tricked themselves into believing that we had a personal relationship a romantic one, or a sexual one they wouldn't have to pay for had we met under different circumstances.

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Man and woman remanded in custody over brothel charges

A man and a woman have been remanded in custody over charges related to brothels, human trafficking and money laundering.Gerald Corrigan, 62, of Park View, Pomeroy, Co Tyrone and Mavie Martins Mariano, 47, of Rockview Crescent, Belleeks, Co Armagh appeared separately via videolink before Dungannon Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Mission Local

Mission District

After 2-year lapse, police promise prostitution crackdown on SF's Capp Street

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LGBT

Police are four times more likely to stop transgender people for "reasonable suspicion"

A new draft report from the California Attorney General's office indicates transgender people in the state are stopped by police at vastly different rates than cisgender men and women.

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10 months ago

Labour shadow minister suspended from party after complaint

A Labour shadow minister has been suspended from the party pending a formal investigation into a complaint against him.Bambos Charalambous said he was aware of an allegation about him and it was right and proper for the party to investigate it.The shadow foreign office minister was reported under Labour's independent complaints process, the Guardian reported.

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10 months ago

Pensioner on trial accused of murdering young woman in 1974

An 80-year-old man has gone on trial accused of strangling a young woman nearly 50 years ago following a DNA breakthrough in the cold case.John Apelgren was 31 when he allegedly hit sex worker Eileen Cotter in the face and throttled her before throwing her body out of his car in 1974.The 22-year-old's death in Islington, north London, came two years after Apelgren allegedly indecently assaulted an 18-year-old guest at his own wedding.

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10 months ago

Brothel bross trafficked sex workers around the UK

A brothel keeper who arranged for twelve women to be trafficked around the UK as sex workers has been jailed after he was snared by text messages advertising his services.Using a text callout service to traffic women across the country from Birmingham, 48-year-old Jie Ke Wang was sentenced as part of a major operation targeting organised crime in the West Midlands, jailed for four years and five months last Wednesday (24 May).

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Convicted killer found guilty of historic sex offences against young boy

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A convicted killer who murdered two women in the 1990s has been found guilty of violently sexually abusing a young boy in the years before his fatal attacks.

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Cold-blooded killer' locked up for 35 years for murdering woman for her money

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A cold-blooded killer has been jailed for at least 35 years for murdering a vulnerable older woman, plundering her wealth and hiding her body in a graveyard for 15 months.

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Hepatitis B transmission from mothers to babies eliminated in England'

Hepatitis B transmission from mothers to babies has been eliminated in England, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said progress had been made on tackling the viral infection, which can cause serious liver damage, cancer and death if left untreated.

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Sadistic sexual killer' jailed for murder 30 years after he was cleared of the crime

A Jack-the-Ripper-style killer has been jailed for more than 25 years for the murder of a pregnant woman he was cleared of killing 30 years ago.David Smith, 67, was acquitted of killing escort Sarah Crump, 33, in 1993 after a trial where her mother warned he would kill again.Six years later, the lorry driver murdered another sex worker Amanda Walker, 21, for which he has served 24 years of a life sentence.

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Life sentence for sadistic sexual killer' for double jeopardy murder

A sadistic sexual killer has been jailed for more than 25 years for the murder of an escort as her family finally saw justice three decades after he was cleared of the crime.Lorry driver David Smith, 67, was acquitted of killing Sarah Crump, 33, in 1993, after a trial at which her mother warned he would kill again.

BBC News

London

Sarah Crump: Man found guilty of unsolved 1991 murder

A prolific sex attacker has been found guilty of murdering a woman in west London 30 years after being cleared and boasting he had "got away with it", under "double jeopardy" legislation.David Smith, 67, has been convicted of murdering Sarah Crump, 33, and "brutally mutilating" her body in 1991.

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Killer guilty of murder 30 years after he was cleared

A killer who boasted he had got away with it after being cleared of murdering an escort 30 years ago has finally been found guilty of the crime.Lorry driver David Smith, 67, went on to commit an almost identical murder of another sex worker, Amanda Walker, 21, in 1999 after he was acquitted of killing Sarah Crump, 33, in 1993.

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Convicted murderer given third life sentence for sex attacks on young boy

A convicted murderer has been given a third life sentence for historic sex offences against a young boy.Alun Kyte was found guilty after a trial in February of 11 offences against a boy, who was aged just nine when the attacks started in the late 1980s.The abuse, committed in Staffordshire, lasted for five years and included Kyte raping his victim twice.

www.independent.co.uk

Convicted killer guilty of violently abusing boy in years before fatal attacks

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A convicted killer who brutally murdered two women in the 1990s has been found guilty of violently sexually abusing a young boy in the years before his fatal attacks.

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Say Nice Things About... the Portland Food Scene!

[Welcome to our "Say Nice Things About Portland" guide to the city!Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That's right, this is our first print product since the start of the pandemic, and we're psyched to produce a lot more.Find the "Say Nice Things" guide in over 500 locations around the city, and if you'd like to see more guides you can hold, please consider making a small contribution to the Mercury, please and thank you!eds] Portland is just about the eatingest city you'll find, and for good reason.

Portland Mercury

Savage Love: The Birthday Boy

I'm a 50-year-old cis straight female writing with a question about my son.He's 19 and in college.I'm a single mom and we are very close.When he was eight, I found him on my laptop looking at videos of "strong women" wrestling with men.Since then, that's all he looks at online and fantasizes about.

Portland Mercury

Support Portland Workers

I spoke recently with an employee of an Eastside adult shop who'd just been assaulted and threatened by a customer.

Portland Mercury

Savage Love: Quickies

You've either had a terrible run of bad luck-assuming you've dated more than ten men-or you've set your standards impossibly high.

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Toronto

Self-defence classes focus on safety, confidence, community for Toronto sex workers | CBC News

At a small Toronto boxing gym, people punch, jump, duck, and laugh.Working up a sweat is just one goal for those who are there.All the participants in this class are sex workers and they're there to learn self-defence."As part of my work, obviously safety is always a concern," said a sex worker who uses the name Selene.

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Toronto

Monkeypox activity in Ontario peaked in July, top doctor says | CBC News

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says monkeypox activity in the province has peaked.

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In its latest report released Wednesday, Public Health Ontario said there were 656 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province as of the previous day, an increase of 25 from the week before.

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Toronto

Monkeypox vaccine now available to broader segment of LGBTQ population, sex workers in Ontario | CBC News

New guidelines from the Ministry of Health, released Wednesday, allow people who are two-spirit, nonbinary, transgender and who belong to the LGBTQ community, and anyone with partners that identify as such, to receive a single dose of the pre-exposure monkeypox vaccine if they meet certain criteria.

Mission Local

Mission District

Anti-sex work bollards erected on Capp Street

Steel bollards meant to discourage johns from cruising up and down Capp Street are being installed by the city this week, replacing the concrete barriers that have sat on the street for months.Department of Public Works staff were at intersections from 18th to 22nd on Capp this morning, slicing into concrete and installing the two-and-a-half-foot tall yellow steel barriers.

www.standard.co.uk

London

Met officer who used call girls has key role in getting women into force

A high-flying Scotland Yard officer who was allowed to keep his job despite using prostitutes has a key role helping recruit women to the force, the Standard can reveal.Payments of hundreds of pounds to sex workers were uncovered when anti-corruption officers from the Met's Professional Standards unit seized his phone over an unrelated matter, which was later dropped.

www.theguardian.com

Education

Kindness should be at the heart of Christian teaching including towards LGBTQ+ students | Matthew Bach

I like the Old Testament as much as the next Christian.There's lots of fabulous stuff in there: the creation story is quite beautiful, Job is an extraordinary vignette of life's inevitable hardships, and Song of Solomon is racier than Playboy magazine or so I'm told.There's also more than enough content to support the Presbyterian church's position on sexually active heterosexual and LGBTQ+ student leaders.

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Europe politics

European drug agency opposes Amsterdam's erotic centre plans

The European drug regulator has said it strongly opposes the creation of a multistorey erotic centre near its headquarters in Amsterdam as part of city plans to relocate sex workers away from the historic red-light district.The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which moved to Amsterdam from London in 2019 after Britain voted to leave the EU, said it was very concerned about the project, fearing nuisance, drug dealing, drunkenness and disorderly behaviour.

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UK politics

No 10 concerned' MPs engaged in sex and heavy drinking' on trips abroad

No 10 has said it is very concerning that MPs were reportedly met by sex workers in their hotel rooms and engaged in raucous drinking while on parliamentary trips abroad.The prime minister's deputy official spokesperson said the oversight of trips taken by all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) was a matter for parliament but expressed concern about some of the behaviour reported by Politico and the Times.

San Francisco Bay Times

SF LGBT

Pasolini 100: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini Will Be Presented at Castro Theatre on September 10 - San Francisco Bay Times

An entire day of works paying homage to filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) on the 100th anniversary of his birth will be shown at the Castro Theatre on Saturday, September 10, 2022.

Boston.com

Boston

13 men charged after allegedly soliciting sex from undercover officers near Mass. and Cass

One man was arrested and 12 others are facing court dates following an undercover operation conducted Tuesday night into Wednesday morning by police near the area of Roxbury known as Mass. and Cass.

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Washington DC

A DC Tattoo Parlor Raised $16,000 for Abortion Funds Last Week

DC businesses have sold everything from alcohol to books to raise money for abortion funds since it became clear that the Supreme Court intended to overturn Roe v. Wade -but last Tuesday, one business on 18th Street, Northwest, offered something a bit more permanent by fundraising with body ink.

Los Angeles Times

California

Big is beautiful at one of L.A.'s hottest strip shows

It was an hour into class, and the performers were feeling themselves.Thighs jiggled.Bellies bounced.Butt cheeks clapped.Twenty-three-year-old actress Sammy Mendoza tittered nervously, a chorus of giggles trailing her acrossa North Hollywood studio.Suddenly, the music stopped."There's nothing funny about how much ass is in this room, and how hot it is," instructor Cera Byer snapped.

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San Francisco

City Hall, SFPD Unveil Plans To Barricade Capp Street In Supposed Sex Work Crackdown

We're now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen's office tells us will be up by Friday, and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.The local political brouhaha is the purported crackdown on sex work on Capp Street, set to address a problem that has actually existed on the street for more than 25 years.

Streetsblog San Francisco

SF politics

Today's Headlines

Major Changes for Muni 29 Sunset (SFExaminer)
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More on Andrew Fremier's Appointment at MTC (MarinIJ)
How Many Office Workers Were Lost in Downtown S.F.? (SFChron)
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Eater Portland

Portland food

Meet the Sex Worker-Owned Food Cart Serving Fruit Tamales in Pasties

Walking into the Lil' America pod, visitors may order Korean fried chicken and mashed potatoes, or saltfish-stuffed Guyanese bakes, from the carts inside.If they walk up to the hot pink cart, however, they can order oat milk shakes, blackberry-filled tamales, and vegan corn dogs from a server in booty shorts.

Eater Portland

Portland food

Meals 4 Heels' Nikeisah Newton Dishes on Her Favorite Places to Eat in Portland

Nikeisah Newton's Meals 4 Heels is known to Portlanders as a food stall and late-night delivery service for sex workers and dancers.

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Women

A pornbot stole my identity on Instagram. It took an agonising month to get it deleted | Nurie Salim

Like many people in Sydney, I spent August 2021 in Delta lockdown, stuck at home, endlessly scrolling on my phone and clinging to the internet as a lifeline.While you can meet all sorts of people online, I did not expect to meet myself, or rather the pornbot version of me.I hadn't been hacked, I hadn't clicked on a phishing link, but I'd still fallen victim to a malicious scam making its rounds on Instagram.

www.theguardian.com

Paris

M Degas Steps Out: An Essay by Philip Hoy review an artistic encounter across a century

Bianca Stigter's recent documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening is based on a short home movie taken by an American tourist in the Polish town of Nasielsk in 1938.The same section of film appears again and again, accompanied by commentary and testimonies, slowed down, zoomed in on and freeze-framed.

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Paris

Proletariat palace': Jean Paul Gaultier opens doors to his lavish Paris atelier

The public will have a rare opportunity to visit one of Paris's most extraordinary private buildings over the next three days when Jean Paul Gaultier throws open the doors of his illustrious fashion house.The seven-storey property at 325 Rue Saint Martin home to the designer's atelier is hosting an immersive exhibition as part of this year's Paris Photo salon.

Time Out London

London

An ancient wood in south London has been saved for the public

Gorne Wood is a rare surviving area of woodland in London

Locals in Lewisham have raised £100,000 to buy an area of woodland that they hope to reopen as a public park.The ancient forest in Brockley was at risk of being sold to developers, but locals, with the help of Lewisham Council, have managed to save it.

www.independent.co.uk

Depraved' double murderer took advantage of vulnerable victim, judge says

A murderer who killed two sex workers six months apart took advantage of his vulnerable victims and carried out depraved acts, a judge has said.Mark Brown, 41, has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for killing Leah Ware, 33, and Alexandra Morgan, 34, six months apart in 2021.Justice Nicholas Hilliard handed down the sentence at Hove Crown Court on Friday in Brown's absence as he refused to attend court.

www.independent.co.uk

Sex workers ordered for MPs on overseas trip to dictatorship'

Sex workers were ordered for MPs during an overseas visit to a dictatorship, according to a report.The group of politicians travelling in an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) were met by prostitutes at their hotel during an official trip aboard, The Times reported.There is no suggestion that the MPs used the services of sex workers, or knew they would be ordered in advance, but there is concern about the risk of blackmail because of bad behaviour during trips overseas.

Bustle

Marketing

Hailey Bieber Debuts "Candy Cane Glazed Nails" & More Must-Reads From Dec. 19

A version of this content appeared in Bustle's daily newsletter on Dec. 19, 2022.If you like what you see, sign up to receive it in your inbox right here.My Book Blew Up On Instagram.Why Isn't BookTok For Me?
Hailey Bieber Debuts "Candy Cane Glazed Nails" For The Holidays "My friend Emily Ratajkowski, also a writer, has been telling me for years to get on TikTok.

Bustle

Books

The Existential Problem With BookTok, According To One Author On It

Like everyone with a soul, my relationship with social media is fraught and ambivalent.When I started my "professional" Instagram account in 2015, it wasn't casual.I thought about it.I thought about what could produce a "net positive" effect in what felt like a narcissistic, lonely making space on the Internet.

The Rumpus.net

Writing

Just by Looking at Him: Ryan O'Connell Trust-Falls into Novel Writing

I first met Ryan O'Connell over five years ago at Akbar, the premiere LA gay bar for literary types and nerds.

San Francisco Bay Times

SF LGBT

Top of Your Stack - Recommendations from Book Passage 6.9.22 - San Francisco Bay Times

Young Mungo(fiction - hardbound) by Douglas Stuart

Portland Mercury

Savage Love: Freyed Nerves

I am a 37-year-old heterosexual woman in a monogamous relationship with a het cis male.Let's call him "Rick."We've been together for five years and engaged for two.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Privacy professionals

No Nudity Allowed: Censoring Naked Yoga

Most nude content is legal, and engaging with such material online provides individuals with a safe and open framework to explore their identities , build communities , and discover new interests .However, social networks and payment processors are intervening to become the arbiters of how people create and engage with nudity and sexuality-both offline and in the digital space.

www.independent.co.uk

Female MP claims she was touched inappropriately on overseas trip'

A female MP has alleged that she was touched inappropriately by a male MP around 25 years older than her during an overseas visit.She said the incident reported to the party whips happened on a trip to a European nation last year as party of all-party parliamentary group (APPG) visit.What I was struck by is how much alcohol was consumed pretty much every night till two or three in the morning, she told Politico.

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Berlin

Berlin sex workers launch audio tour in bid to destigmatise profession

01:43 Sex workers in Berlin are trying to rid their profession of stigma, by launching audio tours in partnership with local officials and the Schwules Museum.

The guide, named We Have Always Been Everywhere, allows users to discover the history of the trade in the German capital as they're guided on a walking tour through the city's famed redlight district.

www.independent.co.uk

Berlin

Berlin sex workers launch audio tour in bid to destigmatise profession

01:43 Sex workers in Berlin are trying to rid their profession of stigma, by launching audio tours in partnership with local officials and the Schwules Museum.The guide, named We Have Always Been Everywhere, allows users to discover the history of the trade in the German capital as they're guided on a walking tour through the city's famed redlight district.

www.npr.org

Law

Ex-Border Patrol agent convicted of killing 4 women in Texas

Former U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Juan David Ortiz reacts as recorder jail phone calls to his wife, Daniella, are played outside the presence of the jury during his capital murder trial in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 Jerry Lara/AP SAN ANTONIO A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 was convicted Wednesday of capital murder, after jurors heard recordings of him telling investigators he was trying to "clean up the streets" of his South Texas hometown.

San Francisco Bay Times

SF LGBT

Carol Leigh (1951-2022) - San Francisco Bay Times

Best known for coining the phrase "sex work," Carol Leigh was the co-founder with Margo St. James of the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network.Founding San Francisco Bay Times editor Priscilla Alexander, who also advocated for sex workers for decades, posted upon learning of Leigh's passing: "In my work at the World Health Organization, I helped to promote that term to emphasize that sex work is a form of labor, appropriate to labor not criminal law."

Document Journal

Relationships

Ask Liara: A sex worker's guide to living, loving, and fucking

In the September edition of their monthly column for Document, Liara Roux answers readers' questions about being weird, transitioning from sex work to the art world, and reconnecting with one's body after trauma

the Guardian

Podcast

Best podcasts of the week: The true story of Mahmood Mattan, hanged for a murder he didn't commit

Widely available, episodes weekly Who will be the winners of the Women's Super League football this season?

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Film

TIFF 2022: Sanctuary, The Menu, Biosphere | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

Qualley seems to just get better each time out.

Truthout

Left-wing politics

Strip Club Dancers Plan to Hold Union Elections as Unionization Wave Spreads

Earlier this week, former dancers of the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood held a rally at the Actor's Equity headquarters in Los Angeles, filing a petition with the National Labor Relations Board.

amNewYork

Public health

Op-Ed | We must fight misinformation and strengthen federal and state response to monkeypox | amNewYork

Once again, New York is at the epicenter of a public health crisis.

kvue.com

Public health

WHO panel: Monkeypox not a global emergency 'at this stage'

WHO nevertheless pointed to the "emergency nature" of the outbreak and said controlling its spread requires an "intense" response.

the Guardian

Germany news

Schlager louts? Row erupts over 'sexist' pop hit in Germany

They are loud in volume, unsophisticated in tune and often offensively bawdy in content.

QNS.com

NYC LGBT

Hundreds march through Corona demanding expanded protections for trans people and sex workers - QNS.com

Make the Road New York (MRNY) hosted its 11th Annual Trans Latinx March Saturday, July 9, in Corona, focusing on protections for all trans and nonbinary workers.

the Guardian

UK politics

John Major's 'bad luck' comment on infected blood scandal angers victims

Campaigners for victims of the infected blood scandal have been left "angry, annoyed and frustrated" at comments by the former prime minister Sir John Major, who said those affected had "incredibly bad luck".

KQED

Arts

SF Pride Celebrates in Defiance of Attacks on Reproductive, Trans Rights | KQED

At Turk and Taylor, DJs played from a sound system aboard a school bus, and speakers included sex workers and socialist organizers.

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Arts

'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Fest

Writer/director Ruben Ostlund, winner of the Palme d'Or for 'Triangle of Sadness,' poses for photographers during the photo call following the awards ceremony at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 28, 2022.

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Arts

More than fame and success, Rosie Perez found what she always wanted a stable home

Rosie Perez says she has everything she ever wanted in life: "Everyone thinks it's the fame and the fortune.

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It was love and stability."

the Guardian

France news

Group invades Cannes red carpet to highlight violence towards women

Protests about women's safety have taken place at the Cannes film festival for the second time in a matter of days, after a group invaded the red carpet at a premiere of a film about the killing of sex workers.

the Guardian

World news

Street-based sex work is now legal across Victoria

Sex workers are now free to operate on Victoria's streets after new laws, which are designed to make those in the industry safer, came into effect.

Nytimes