A new study shows organized crime is behind more than three-quarters of UK brothels. From the report:
“The relative impunity with which pimps and traffickers operate, combined with the almost total exclusion of many off-street sex workers — particularly foreign nationals — from mainstream society, requires a radical reconsideration of what the police and other relevant agencies should be doing.”
Rightwing lawmakers in Poland are pushing forward with a near-total ban on abortion. The Guardian reports:
“The governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party… has sent to committee a bill that would allow terminations only if the mother’s life was at risk, and increase the maximum jail term for practitioners from two years to five.”
The male “pill” is coming. (But will men take it, is the question…)
Ottawa police are treating the death of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook as “suspicious.”