San Francisco, Dec 26 Unveiling the tech industry's patronage of brothels, an investigation by American weekly magazine Newsweek has found that employees from Amazon and Microsoft, among other tech firms in Seattle, purchased services from trafficked sex workers.
A fifth of female sex workers live with violence, attacked four times a month, on average, according to an analysis of data on 109,366 such workers, gathered over six months to September 2015 by Swasti Health Resource Centre, a Bengaluru-based nonprofit, as part of its work under the Avahan initiative (Phase 3).
Those with more clients and income were more likely to be attacked, the data reveals, which in turn placed them at greater risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV-AIDS. This could be because they were less likely to get tested.
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said that the provisions of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act could not be invoked by the alleged sex workers to resist their eviction from the places being used as brothel that have been directed to be closed by the courts.