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27 Sex Workers Arrested In Chawama Township
The Immigration Department Arrested 27 suspected Zimbabwean sex workers at Katete Guest House in Chawama Township on Friday because they had no proper documentation.
According to a statement issued by Immigration Department public relations officer Namati Nshinka, a suspected prohibited immigrant who was claiming to be Zambian and working at the same guest house was also arrested.
Mr Nshinka said two Zambian security officers at the guest house were apprehended for wilfully obstructing immigration officers in the due execution of their duties contrary to the Immigration laws.
The arrest of the Zimbabwean women came barely 20 days after the arrest and removal of 79 others arrested in Lusaka and Chirundu.
“It is apparent that some of those arrested during the operation were among those who were removed 20 days ago,” Mr Nshinka said.
On the same evening 16 Egyptians were arrested at house number 20135, New Munali for trading without permits.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the carpet traders’ days as visitors were exhausted as far back as in 2013. The officers found carpets in two of the vehicles parked at their premises.
Others arrested include seven Chinese in Kamwala trading area for abrogating the provisions of their permits by engaging in occupations not stipulated on their permits.
Two Congolese men were also arrested in Zingalume for unlawful stay.
And a 25-year-old man of Chipakila Village in Chief Kambwali’s area in Nchelenge was hit by a vehicle between Thursday evening and Friday 06:30 hours yesterday on Mbereshi-Nchelenge Road at Chipakila Village. Luapula Province Police Commissioner Malcolm Mulenga confirmed the incident.
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100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:01 am
Paradise is a brothel in Stuttgart. It’s one of Germany’s “mega-brothels
Paradise is a chain, like Shoprite or Hungry Lion, with five branches and three more on the way. So business is booming.
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:06 am
“Afghanistan’s sex industry is booming, according to both private and official sources. Statistics are scattered, and few solid figures exist. But since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, prostitution has become, if not more widespread, at least more open…
The Taliban strictly controlled sexual activity, meting out harsh punishments for extra-marital relations and adultery. Married women who had sex outside marriage were stoned to death. Others were publicly flogged.
Sex outside marriage remains illegal in post-Taliban Afghanistan, and the prisons are full of women who have been convicted of ‘fornication,’ a charge that carries a penalty of from five to 15 years in jail.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:09 am
Angola: “Prostitution is illegal, but the prohibition was not consistently enforced. Many women engaged in prostitution due to poverty, but there were no estimates on its prevalence. The MINFAMU [Ministry of Family and the Promotion of Women] maintained a women’s shelter in Luanda that was open to former prostitutes…
Child prostitution is illegal; however, local NGOs expressed concern over child prostitution in the country, especially in Luanda and Cunene provinces…”
Malaysian Airlines MH370
April 1, 2014 at 10:10 am
Very sad development, people shud resort to other means of survival.
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:10 am
…[P]rostitutes throughout Argentina are casting off police persecution and demanding the same rights as other workers. They have formed the Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina, or Ammar – the word amar means to love in Spanish – … and have set their sights even higher. In the coming months, the nine-year-old organisation plans its boldest step yet: to demand government recognition as an official union. It would be the first such union in Latin America and one of only a handful in the world.
ARGENTINA…1,700 Argentine prostitutes [are] now registered as members of Ammar, whose leaders say government recognition would give the organisation the legal standing to fight for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Technically, prostitution is not illegal in Argentina but most provinces have laws allowing the arrest of prostitutes for causing ‘scandal in the public thoroughfare’.
…Pimping is illegal but brothel owners are rarely sent to jail. Instead, they form shady business alliances with the police, who collect regular rake-offs.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:15 am
Armenia “Prostitution and sex tourism are legal, but operating a brothel is prohibited and engaging in other forms of pimping are punishable by one to 10 years’ imprisonment. According to media reports, there were fewer than 5,000 women involved in prostitution in the country, approximately 1,500 of whom were in Yerevan. Police and other security forces reportedly tolerated prostitution…
The country is a source and transit point for women and girls trafficked primarily for sexual and, to a lesser extent, labor exploitation to the United Arab Emirates and Turkey…
Traffickers, using developed networks in source and destination countries, typically recruited victims who were already engaged in prostitution. The majority, but not all, of the identified victims were aware that they would end up in the sex industry in other countries; however, they were unaware of the traffickers’ intent or the exploitative circumstances they would face abroad…
Women engaged in prostitution, orphans who had outgrown their institutions, homeless or divorced women, and women in difficult financial situations were at greatest risk of being trafficked. There were some reported incidents of physical violence against trafficking victims.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:17 am
BANGLADESH: Female prostitution was legal. Male prostitution was illegal, although local NGOs claimed it was common in the major cities. The authorities generally ignored the minimum age of 18, often circumvented by false statements of age, for legal female prostitution. The government rarely prosecuted procurers of minors, and large numbers of underage girls in prostitution worked in brothels. Local NGOs estimated the total number of female prostitutes was as many as 100,000. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated in 2004 that there were 10,000 underage girls used in commercial sexual exploitation in the country, but other estimates placed the figure as high as 29,000. Trafficking of women internally and internationally remained a problem…
As many as 10,000 children were used in brothels for commercial sexual exploitation, and procurers of minors were rarely prosecuted.
Government corruption greatly facilitated the process of trafficking. Police and local government officials often ignored trafficking in women and children for commercial sexual exploitation and were easily bribed by brothel owners and pimps.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:18 am
BELGIUM “As the 9 a.m. shift began at Villa Tinto, which calls itself Europe’s most high-tech brothel, prostitute Andrea Maes put on her leather boots, pressed her finger on a biometric scanner and started posing for potential clients in her neon-lit display window. After matching her fingerprint with the one in its database, the brothel’s system clocked her in and flashed her ID number — A9018 — to a control room manned by a fellow prostitute. It also switched on the lights in her designer-furnished room — more boutique hotel than bordello….
Villa Tinto, House of Pleasure, is a pioneering example of a widening European drive to legalize prostitution, while combating the crime and violence it fosters — including the explosion in human trafficking in recent years. The brothel opened in January, with the help of the Antwerp city council, the police and the prostitutes themselves as part of a ‘tolerance zone,’ begun in 2001. The Belgian government views the three-block area as a test case as it considers national legalization — a move to wrest prostitution from the control of organized criminals and bring in some lost tax revenue.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:21 am
COLOMBIA: “Adult prostitution is legal in designated ‘tolerance zones,’ but enforcement of, and restriction to, the zones remained difficult. Prostitution was widespread and exacerbated by poverty and internal displacement. Sex tourism existed to a limited extent, particularly in coastal cities such as Cartagena and Barranquilla, where marriage and dating services were often fronts for sexual tourism. The law prohibits organizing or facilitating sexual tourism and provides penalties of three to eight years’ imprisonment. Trafficking in women for sexual exploitation continued to be a problem.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:22 am
Denmark: “Torben Hansen, who has cerebral palsy, which severely affects his speech and mobility, believes his local authority should pay the extra charge he incurs when he hires a sex worker – because his disability means he cannot go to see them. His case is currently being considered.
…In Denmark, local authorities compensate disabled people for extra costs incurred because of their disability….In Denmark, prostitution and other forms of sex work are not illegal so long as it is not a woman’s sole means of income…. ‘It’s unfair to deny people with disabilities the right to a sex life,’ he [Hansen] added.
Kristen Brosboel, a Social Democrat member of the Danish Parliament, is among those who have argued against Mr Hansen. ‘We also spend tax money on trying to prevent prostitution, helping women out of prostitution – and we have a clear policy that this is a social problem that we want to solve…. So I think that’s very much in contradiction with spending tax money on requiring prostitutes.”
Akabanda Mateshi
April 1, 2014 at 10:23 am
What a life?
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:24 am
Ecuador: “Prostitution is legal for persons over the age of 18 so long as the businesses are registered with the government and follow health regulations. Trafficking in persons for prostitution was a problem…
Traffickers were organized criminal gangs specializing in movement of persons, proprietors of small businesses such as bars or brothels, or illicit employment brokers. Accounts indicated that traffickers’ recruitment modalities varied depending on the type of exploitation. In the case of sexual exploitation, victims were lured romantically or with promises of legitimate employment and then forced into prostitution. Recruiters for forced labor and begging included business owners in and outside the country. These traffickers offered parents education and work opportunities for their young children and then forced victims into trafficking situations, including prostitution domestically and in Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic.”
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:26 am
Ethiopia:”Everyday about 10,000 people pass through the cross-country bus station in the Ethiopian capital to visit relatives, do business or simply search for a better life. According to a recent survey carried out in Addis Ababa, child prostitution is on the rise. The report found that partly because of poverty an increasing number of girls come to the city to become sex workers.”
Damian Zane, “Ethiopian Girls Driven To Prostitution,” BBC News, May 27, 2003
jamakudi
April 1, 2014 at 10:27 am
This shows u how much foreigners have invaded our country. They r even allowed to own land. Zambians can’t do that in India, Lebanon or China
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:28 am
Greece:”Greece, whose ancient civilisation introduced the world to high class prostitutes in the sixth century BC, has at last decided to salute their contribution to society.
Athens has announced that its economy is 25% bigger than thought thanks, in part, to the round-the-clock duties of the country’s prostitutes, who were known as hetairai in ancient times. The Greek authorities are revising the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) after deciding that the black market should be included in the figures.”
Nicholas Watt, “Greek Economy Up 25% – With a Little Help From Prostitutes,” Guardian, Sep. 30, 2006
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:30 am
Guatemala- “In Guatemala City, a new soccer team is winning fans — and it’s not because they are winning games. Members of the Stars of the Tracks team are prostitutes, who hope to use their growing popularity to call attention to their collective fight for a better life.”
“Guatemala City’s Prostitute Soccer Team,” National Public Radio (NPR), Jan. 12, 2005
100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:33 am
IRAQ “Prostitution is illegal. During the year, reports of prostitution increased. According to the NGO Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq, some women have resorted to prostitution in order to provide for their children. On June 15, the Kurdish Lvin magazine published a detailed report on police involvement in a major Kirkuk prostitution ring, which routinely bribed government officials with prostitutes. The woman who ran the network asserted that there are over 200 brothels in Kirkuk. The author of the Lvin article, Soran Hama, was killed on July 21. The case remained unsolved at year’s end…
Although reliable statistics did not exist, Iraq was a source and destination country for men and women trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Children are trafficked within the country and abroad for commercial sexual exploitation. Women are trafficked within the country, as well as to Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Iran for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.”
US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, “2008 Human Rights Report: Feb. 25, 2009
HOLYLAND ISRAEL and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:36 am
Unlike many countries, prostitution in Israel is legal. To many people it is shocking to learn that in the “Holy Land” prostitution is allowed. Prostitution is legal, but what is not legal, is running a brothel or living off the earnings of a prostitute, in other words being a pimp. Prostitution in Israel is not kept on the down low. Everyone knows about it and where to go to find a prostitute. It is a choice whether they decide to pay for sex or not. Prostitutes are known to be discrete. They do not go around talking about the men they have sex with. Some of the places where prostitution is more popular is in cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa. That could be because the population is more secular and not as religious. Prostitutes can be found on the streets, strip clubs and “massage parlors.” Politicians, businessmen and even police officers are known to visit the upscale “massage parlors” and high price strip clubs. Regular citizens are more likely to just look for a prostitute on the streets. When Arab Israelis or Orthodox Jews, whether married or not, want to have sex with a prostitute, they go somewhere far from their homes. The reason for them going far is so they will not be recognized by anyone. One negative effect of the rising popularity of prostitution is that venereal diseases have rapidly increased over the years.
HOLYLAND ISRAEL and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:38 am
Many Israeli-born prostitutes do not like prostitutes that come from other countries because often, men prefer the outsiders. Israeli-born prostitutes claim that outsiders are taking their money.
HOLYLAND ISRAEL and Their Prostitution Policies
April 1, 2014 at 10:41 am
“In regards to men in Israel, they make about one million visits to prostitutes every month. It is no wonder why prostitution makes so much money and venereal diseases are on the rise.”
KENYA
April 1, 2014 at 11:13 am
“Whether one likes it or not, prostitution is a “profession” that will not die away; it is here to stay. And with it comes the challenges which hardly allow easy solutions. The trade in Kenya, which is classified under the Penal Code, Sections 147 to 154, is illegal in Kenya and calls for stiff penalty. But even though the law is clear on commercial sex work, regardless of gender and affiliation, the general belief is that it is mostly the women who engage in it and who are arrested by police when caught.”
May 19, 2007, Mildred Ngesa, “Kenya: What the Law Says About the Oldest ‘Profession’,” Nairobi Nation
HOLLAND
April 1, 2014 at 11:16 am
“One third of the famous ‘window’ brothels and sex clubs of Amsterdam are facing closure after the city council recently refused to renew 33 licences in a crackdown against organised crime….
The Christian Democrat CDA and the ChristenUnie (CU) parties – both of which are expected to form part of the new governing coalition – want even tougher measures, including the prosecution of men who frequent prostitutes who are working against their will….
But others, such as Petra Timmermans from the International Committee on the rights of Sex Workers in Europe, said the Dutch were experiencing outside pressure from countries that did not understand their traditions. ‘The Netherlands has decided to do things differently so it is under tremendous pressure from neighbouring countries to re-evaluate its position,’ she said. ‘People look at the Netherlands and say it is a failed experiment because not every sex worker is a millionairess.’”
Nicola Smith, “Amsterdam Cleans Ip Its Act,” Expactica.com, Jan. 10, 2007
SENEGAL
April 1, 2014 at 11:19 am
Prostitution: Legal
Prostitution has been legal since 1969. Must be at least 21 years of age, register with the police, carry a valid sanitary card, and test negative for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Free condoms are provided beginning at the first visit to the clinic and are renewed monthly.
Brothel Ownership: Illegal
Pimping: Illegal
Soliciting or living off the earnings of prostitution is prohibited.
“Prostitution was legalized in this predominantly Muslim country in 1969, and today the government tolerates it as long as each prostitute registers with the state, is over 21 years old, and comes regularly to a center run by the Ministry of Health for checkups, education, and medical treatment. And that’s a big reason why this West African nation of 10.5 million, according to the World Health Organization, has an HIV infection rate of about two percent while many of its nearest neighbors face rates several times higher; some Southern African countries, such as Botswana, report that a mind-boggling 39 percent or more of the adult population is infected.”
Nicholas Thompson, “The Network Effect,” Boston Globe, Jan. 5, 2003
chakuti chake !
April 1, 2014 at 12:37 pm
And these chinese investors with portable casinos all over markets , bars , bus stations …what are you doing about it . Children have stopped going to school because of mini casinos all over . Please help the situation is getting out of hand .
katwishi mukwai
April 1, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Elyo,imwe bantu,how do you support amaule?Bupuba sana
Maria
April 1, 2014 at 4:13 pm
WHY DOES THE SEX PURCHASER GO SCOT-FREE?
VITENDENI!!!
Pilato
April 1, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Leave the Sex workers alone namufilwa fye ukubomba. Why are you arresting them as if you have found them another Job. Job creation is now in negatives but you are still boasting of Job creation.
freedom fighter
April 2, 2014 at 7:51 am
Too length sms are not encouraged. Please summerize your data. No matter how much infor u have, summerize it.
Ezemwa
April 2, 2014 at 9:02 am
@ freedom nosonsa ni essay!
pettie
April 2, 2014 at 12:58 pm
It sad that such things are happening in Zambia.Poverty can drive some one to do thing which are not proper.Shame on these women who are selling their bodies.Where is the world going to?