The man accused of bringing young girls from Mexico to the Atlanta area and forcing them to become prostitutes was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.

Another shock video campaign proven to be based on a hoax!

A controversial campaign designed by a local ad firm aims to humanize the gritty image of those practising the world's oldest profession.

It isn't an unusual story, but it's bracing to me, in particular because I am one of those young feminists who philosophically believes that prostitution should be legal. For the first time, though, I viscerally understand the anti-legalization stance.

So like the title says, "Bad Decisions" make good stories. I think that must be because we learn the most when we get it wrong.

A sex scandal has gripped Turkey after media reports emerged of how the historic luxury yacht formerly belonging to the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was turned into an floating vice den involving underage prostitutes and rich businessmen.

"By increasing the risk of harm to street prostitutes, the communicating law is simply too high a price to pay for the alleviation of social nuisance," Himel wrote in her 131-page verdict.

TENANCINGO, Mexico — In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to the United States to force them into prostitution.

Forty thousand: that is how many cases of human trafficking were predicted to occur during the World Cup.Zero: that's the actual number of reported cases.

In the months leading up to the World Cup, Minister of Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya expressed fears that human trafficking might turn out to be the "dark side" of the celebrations, but experts denounced the fears, labelling them an exaggeration.

Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution.

"Ignorant" officials are obsessed with punishing victims of trafficking rather than targeting those behind the crime, a report claims.

A coalition of human rights groups says the system for handling victims in the UK is "not fit for purpose". It wants an independent anti-trafficking watchdog to be created to oversee the work of officials.

"I was initially drawn to exploring the prevalence of prostitution under Islam in 2001 after encountering impoverished Afghan widows in the refugee camps of the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan.

A hidden and scary side of the Tampa Bay sex industry is set to unfold in court today, as a Treasure Island man goes on trial, charged with raping a young woman and forcing her into prostitution at a St. Petersburg strip club.

Every country has secrets it does not want foreigners to discover, and I have just found one from Bangladesh.

It is a vast brothel, where 800 women and girls lead painful and degrading lives, in the otherwise pleasant town of Tangail, a place of flowering trees and atmospheric old bazaars, a couple of hours drive from the capital Dhaka.

A sex worker who was dismissed from a brothel for not performing her duties properly has won an important case in the Labour Appeal Court.

Judge President Raymond Zondo, Judge Dennis Davis and Judge Achmat Jappie ruled that just because someone worked in an illegal profession, this did not mean they had no rights under the Labour Relations Act.

As a Cal State Northridge associate professor, Kenneth Ng spends his days teaching students the principles of economics: markets, monetary policy, interest rates. But in his free time, Ng focuses on a very different kind of market: sex tourism in Thailand.

Actress Emma Thompson has played fictional characters on the big screen for 20 years, but her latest project tackles the real-life horrors of human trafficking.

As violence against women in Pakistan continues to grow, every new incident is eerily reminiscent of an earlier event that was equally if not more shocking. Two reports from Punjab on Monday are a blot on society's collective conscience.