
Street legal: Ten years after prostitution decriminalisation
The campaign to clean up Hunter's Corner has created some unlikely bedfellows.
The campaign to clean up Hunter's Corner has created some unlikely bedfellows.
All forms of prostitution were decriminalised in 2003. But while the Prostitution Reform Act gave local authorities power to regulate where brothels operated, there are no such controls on those selling their bodies on the street.
Central government politicians have called a roundtable meeting in Wellington tomorrow to look for ways to control street prostitution in South Auckland.
The trial of a man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning is likely to start next year.
Migrant prostitutes here are not victims of people trafficking and many are in the sex trade for the money, research on migrant sex workers in New Zealand has found.
Police have denied there is a problem with underage prostitution, writes Dave Crampton. Perhaps this is because nobody has laid a complaint with the police?
The bars on Ponsonby Rd are pumping when I turn up at the Auckland office of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, behind an unassuming frosted-glass window at the western end of Karangahape Rd.
Movie censors in China have cut references to torture and prostitution in the country from the Bond film Skyfall.
A man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning will stand trial next year.
A South Auckland prostitution spot has become embroiled in turf battles between local workers and those travelling from as far as Christchurch and Tokoroa.
Plans for Auckland's first high-rise brothel will move a step closer this month when Wellington's Chow brothers face those opposed to the plan.
Aussie mining towns draw sex workers from afar, but police claim the trade is blighted by traffickers.