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“Prostitutes raise temperatures” at COP15

3 hours ago ago from University of Waterloo Sustainability Project

Prior to the grand opening of COP15 and the Climate Summit for Mayors, hundreds of hotels, delegates and journalists received a letter from the Copenhagen's mayor, along with a stack of postcards proclaiming, Be sustainable: Don't buy sex! The postcards were part of a campaign launched by the City Council urging the international delegates and press to refrain from buying sex during their stay in Copenhagen. BUT the postcards caused ...

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Indian sect members vow to marry sex workers

11 hours ago ago from Nothing To Do With Arbroath

More than 1,000 followers of a multi-religious sect in northern India have pledged to marry female sex workers who want to escape exploitation. Young Hindu, Muslim and Sikh men have been queuing up at the Dera Sacha Sauda (Abode of the Real Deal) in the town of Sirsa as "wedding volunteers". They say they are doing so to stop the women from being exploited in brothels. They also claim that their move is part of a campaign to stop the ...

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Reviving the "Particular Social Group"

9 hours ago ago from IntLawGrrls

Two recent decisions have breathed new life into the particular social group ground for asylum , expanding the doctrine to cover claims that had previously appeared all but dead. Last week, an immigration judge granted asylum to Rodi Alvarado , (pictured below right) a Guatemalan woman whose domestic violence claim has been the centerpiece of a fourteen-year struggle over whether such cases should be protected by asylum law. On Tuesday, in ...

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