Press and Media
Appearances
2008
Letter to the editor re: A Better Law Against Trafficking
New York Times -- 23.09.2008Probe: Diplomats abuse their workers, invoke immunity
Newsday -- 28.07.2008First prosecution under New York sex trafficking law
Newsday -- 18.06.2008Why the Mann Act expansion is bad for women
Feministing.com -- 09.06.2008Human Trafficking: The Modern Face of Slave Trade
MediaGlobal.org -- 09.06.2008Prostitution Debate
Madams Fall While Their Johns Prosper
ABC News -- 02.05.2008Panel Discusses Prostitution and the Sex Industry
Task force targets trafficking, abuse in prostitution rings
Sex workers need safety, not prosecutors
Women's eNews -- 16.03.2008Human rights advocates shocked by Spitzer's double standard
Prostitution and the Law
As Spitzer prostitution scandal dominates headlines, a look at the plight of sex workers
Democracy Now! -- 12.03.2008Letter to the editor re: Don't call it slavery
SFGate -- 20.01.20082007
A Modern Slavery
Gotham Gazette -- 01.10.2007Letter to the Editor RE Data and Anti-Trafficking Policy
The Washington Post -- 26.09.2007Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy That Randall Tobias Enforced
Ascribe, The Public Interest Newswire -- 07.09.2007Melissa Ditmore Interview (MP3)
WBAI -- 07.09.2007Target of Federal task force
Newsday -- 16.05.2007Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy that Randall Tobias Enforced
Feisty Aphrodite -- 06.05.2007Astronauts Honored; Tobias Gone
Womensenews -- 05.05.2007Sex Isn't the Only Thing for Sale in Washington
Bloomberg.com -- 03.05.2007Erotic Services 101
Slate -- 03.05.2007Washington Sex Scandal: Couldn't Happen to Nicer People
The Nation -- 02.05.2007The Anti-Prostitution Pledge
Salon -- 02.05.2007Implementer of Anti-Prostitution Pledge Caught in Call Girl Scandal
Planetwire.org -- 30.04.2007Juhu Thukral Interview (video)
Good Morning America -- 30.04.2007PostGlobal: Debating Legalized Prostitution
Washington Post/PostGlobal -- 28.02.2007Cops should ease up on sex workers to combat violence, advocate says
Metro -- 08.02.2007Indian-Americans Study, Empower, America
Indolink -- 30.01.20072006
To Catch a Serial Killer, Two Different Investigative Paths
New York Times -- 31.12.2006Letter to the Editor RE Modern-Day Slavery
New York Times -- 17.12.2006Many Make Safety Pledge; AIDS, Violence Unchecked
Women's eNews -- 02.12.2006A Night in the Life/Hard Times
West Side Spirit -- 16.11.2006Three-Year Protest Against Publishing Arrestee Names Continues
Pittsburgh City Paper -- 09.11.2006Underground Sex Scene in NY boosted by Internet
WCBS -- 04.11.2006Underground Sex Ring in NYC Boosted By Internet
WCBS -- 03.11.2006Council would criminalize human trafficking
Queens Courier -- 12.10.2006Old profession, new tricks.
Time Out New York -- 05.10.2006Is US AIDS Policy Undermining the HIV Response?
Time To Deliver -- 13.08.2006Women Aloud (Los Angeles radio show)
28.07.2006Authorities focus on sex trafficking
Newsday -- 24.04.2006The Electronic Pillory
Chicago Reader -- 07.04.2006An interview with Juhu Thukral
Word Riot -- 01.01.20062005
Authorities Target Customers to Curb Prostitution
NPR - Talk of the Nation -- 21.12.2005In a Shift, Anti-Prostitution Effort Targets Pimps and Johns
Washington Post -- 15.12.2005Group Has Plan to Help Victims of Trafficking
New York Metro -- 01.12.2005Kidnapping suspects arraigned in Port Chester
The Journal News -- 27.09.2005Oversexed: Anti-Trafficking Efforts Too Often Neglect Other Forms of Forced Labor
The Nation -- 29.08.2005Cities turn to humiliation to fight prostitution
Christian Science Monitor -- 21.07.2005She's the oldest suspect in the oldest profession
New Jersey Star-Ledger -- 05.06.2005School for Johns: Arrested for soliciting sex, men wind up in a Brooklyn classroom
Village Voice -- 10.05.2005Cityscape
(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WFUV -- 16.04.2005Evening News
(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WBAI -- 31.03.2005Perils of city sex trade cited
Newsday -- 30.03.2005Morning Edition
(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WNYC -- 30.03.2005New Study Shows Sex Work Dangerous
South Florida Sun-Sentinel -- 30.03.2005Violence, isolation in lives of indoor sex workers
Associated Press -- 30.03.2005Sex Workers Scraping By
UPI -- 30.03.2005UN Debate on Trafficking Continues
DC Indymedia -- 08.03.2005Fending for Themselves
Chronicle of Philanthropy -- 03.03.2005BBC News
(Topic: $pread magazine and the sex workers
BBC -- 31.01.20052004
Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal and Organized
The New York Times -- 18.12.2004Free Speech Radio News
(Topic: Republican Convention and sex workers)
Free Speech Radio News -- 03.09.2004Does GOP = sex? Not to those in the business
NY Newsday -- 24.08.2004Are Sex Workers Coming to New York for the RNC?
Democracy Now! -- 17.08.2004Regional News Network
(Topic: Republican Convention and sex workers)
Regional News Network -- 10.08.2004Sex-for-money industry thriving and easy to find
Northjersey.com -- 14.07.2004CNN Radio Network
(Topic: Republican Convention and sex workers)
CNN Radio Network -- 08.07.2004Evening News
(Topic: Revolving Door)
WBAI -- 23.06.2004Letter to the Editor RE Las Vegas, the Microcosm
New York Times -- 06.06.2004Study Documents Abuse of Sex Workers
India Abroad -- 30.01.2004Letter to the Editor RE: Putting the Sex Trade on Notice
The New York Times -- 16.01.20042003
Street Sweep: Bloomberg Plan Sends Prostitutes Cycling From City Jails to Local Corners
Village Voice -- 19.11.2003Globalization's Underside: Sex Trafficking in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Rail -- 01.08.2003Sex Workers and Civil Rights
AlterNet.org -- 18.07.2003Regional News Network
(Topic: Revolving Door)
Regional News Network -- 02.07.2003Morning Edition
(Topic: Revolving Door)
WNYC -- 23.06.2003WFUV
(Topic: Revolving Door)
WFUV -- 23.06.2003Survey Shows Sex Workers Complain of Police Abuse
Associated Press -- 23.06.2003Report: Prostitutes Claim Abuse by Police
Newsday -- 22.06.2003Meeting to Address Human Trafficking
Newsday -- 23.04.20032002
Traffic Jam
Bitch Magazine -- 01.12.2002Urban Justice Center launches projects to help sex workers, street vendors
Caribbean Life -- 26.03.2002Sex Workers Project offers free legal services to victims of trafficking
India Abroad -- 22.03.2002Press Releases
2008
11/07/08SWP Statement on Proposition K
2007
11/30/07SWP Statement on World AIDS Day
05/01/07Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy that Randall Tobias Enforced