Search Results: prostitution
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AUSTRALIA
- Duncan MacLaren
- 17 April 2012
4 Comments
Rumour has it the Government's projected aid budget increases will be cut to ensure a surplus. Some aid doesn't work: I was horrified as a young aid worker in the '80s being told that an open sewer in an Addis Ababa slum was a World Bank project. But aid does work if it is underpinned by a few key principles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 December 2011
9 Comments
Shay has escaped from her abusive stepfather into a life of prostitution. Holly has accumulated wealth as a high-class call girl. Their work is more dangerous than either had imagined. For them, if there is a God, he simply watches, rather than watching over.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 June 2011
4 Comments
In May a German study revealed that one in three students in Berlin would consider sex work as a means of paying for their education. We've seen similar phenomena in Australia. In Sleeping Beauty, Lucy is a university student who finds herself drawn into working a bizarre niche in the sex industry.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Paterne Mombe
- 26 November 2010
1 Comment
Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges the relative moral value of a prostitute showing concern for protecting others by using condoms. But it is far from being sufficient. For him, it is not really the way to promote HIV prevention. One would say: the finality does not justify the means.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
36 Comments
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue?
When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby J. Murray
- 11 March 2010
11 Comments
The strident debate over Islamic dress is
again barreling through western democracies. If attempting to combat discrimination and violence against women
really is at the bottom of the debate, then why not
focus on domestic violence with the same hysteria?
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 26 March 2009
20 Comments
The Pope's criticism of condoms was forged in a Western context, but reflects an aspect of the African experience of AIDS. There, a value-free Western strategy has been inadequate because it does not deal with important cultural factors.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 26 September 2008
2 Comments
Elias' belief in freedom sees him join Che Guevara in an African campaign, and insurgent movements in Angola and Somalia. He learns that ideological commitments mask simpler human desires for riches, revenge, status and sex.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Harry Nicolaides
- 29 July 2008
11 Comments
Fibreglass police officers man checkpoints on the road to the Thai-Burmese border crossing at Mai Sai. At a market on the Burma side of the border, child pornography is peddled by the world's most malevolent cottage industry.
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INTERNATIONAL
Sold to a contractor at the age of 13, Roghini Govindhan was put to work churning out matchboxes 11 hours a day. Now 24, Govindhan has campaigned as part of World Vision's Don't Trade Lives anti-slavery campaign.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ashlea Scicluna
- 20 May 2008
19 Comments
The popular perception of the Netherlands as a tolerant country is only a half-truth. Most Dutch rarely mix with the Islamic population, fearing Islam will encroach upon the traditional values of Dutch identity. The nation has failed to understand and accept its Muslim population.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt
- 15 November 2007
1 Comment
Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt provide an update on civil-military relations in Burma.
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