" "Governments around the world look to the United
Nations to determine their policy and I am dismayed that any part of the UN
would call for the decriminalisation of pimping and brothel-keeping," said
Lauren Hersh, the New York director of the women's rights group Equality Now.
The pressure group is writing to Ban Ki-moon and other branches of the UN on
Sunday with co-signatures from lobby groups in the UK, US and around the
world."