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Saturday, 25 August 2007 |
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 Prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district started a sticker and poster campaign against pimps. They are putting up stickers and posters on windows with the phrases "Pimp free Zone" and "Pimping is forbidden in The Netherlands".
The stickers and posters serve to point out to pimps that it is a criminal offence to blackmail prostitutes and make them dependent on them, says lobby organisation De Rode Draad and Vakwerk, the union for sex workers.
The organisations are taking the initiative because they feel there are too many pimps hanging around the window prostitution areas of the red light district. |
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Saturday, 04 August 2007 |
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 Today the 12th edition of the Gay Pride parade is more colorful than ever. The historic canals of Amsterdam are full of eccentrically decorated rainbow boats and dressed up people. Never before has the parade had so many participants.
According to the organization more than seventy boats participate.
In Amsterdam, the city approves permits for parade boats, unlike in most other cities where floats are approved by Pride committees. Amsterdam's mayor Job Cohen initially opposed the idea of a youth boat (under the age of 16), but allowed the boat to participate when parents promised to join in. |
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
 Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District yesterday , for the first time allowing national police investigators and tax authorities to see the extent of what had long been seen as a local problem.
With its scantily clad prostitutes posing in brothel windows and coffee shops oozing the pungent aroma of marijuana smoke, the area's seediness has always been part of its attraction. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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 Alida Bosshardt, who spent more than 50 years working for the Salvation Army and established a center in Amsterdam's Red Light District for sex workers and drug addicts, has died. She was 94.
Bosshardt died Monday, Salvation Army spokeswoman Hella van der Schoot said. "She had heart troubles and kidney problems," she said.
Bosshardt joined the Salvation Army in 1934 and was instructed to work with women in the Red Light District shortly after the end of World War II. |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
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 At several locations in Amsterdam naked women and men posed for Spencer Tunick, the famous American photographer who likes to take pictures of naked people.
This time two-thousand men and women posed nude. Tunick snapped a series of photos of groups at different places in the city.
The first and biggest tableau was set in a parking garage, with people lining the railings of the twin, circular towers, looking from a distance like colorful stripes against the white building and overcast sky.
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