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Sex trafficking in Dubai
Sex trafficking in Dubai: exploitation of migrant women and girls for commercial sex in the UAE's largest city. Victims come from Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Eastern Europe; US Tier 2 rating; Federal Law 24 of 2023 governs; ICIJ and State Department document recruitment fraud, debt bondage, and shelter gaps.
Sex trafficking in the United States
Sex trafficking in the United States: commercial sex induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or involving minors, under the TVPA of 2000; covers the 3P framework, T visas, Polaris hotline typology, prevalence-data limits, and myths like the Super Bowl claim.
Sex141
Sex141 is a Hong Kong website that provides advertising for sex workers. It operates under the "141" format, which allows individual workers to advertise from rented apartments.
Sextortion
Sextortion is sexual blackmail, or sexual extortion, where offenders threaten to release intimate images unless demands are met. Financial variants often target young men aged 18 to 24.
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse: coerced sexual acts or acts directed against a person's sexuality, including child sexual abuse and image-based sexual abuse; WHO estimates 31.6% of women affected, with evolving legal responses.
Sexual abuse of animals
Sexual abuse of animals (bestiality, zoophilia) is human sexual contact with nonhuman animals, criminalized in nearly all US states and much of Europe, with veterinary forensic methods and recent UK law reforms defining the offense.
Sexual abuse scandal in New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137
Troop 137 scandal: a 1974 New Orleans Boy Scout troop whose adult leaders ran a child sexual abuse and prostitution ring, exposed in 1976, prosecuted 1977-1978, and later featured in the Netflix film Scouts Honor.
Sexual assault
Sexual assault is sexual activity without freely given consent, covering rape and unwanted sexual contact. Key facts: CDC prevalence data, the Hale marital rape exemption, and consent-based law reform in Canada, the UK, and France.
Sexual assault in the United States military
Sexual assault in the US military, also called military sexual trauma, covers sexual offenses under the UCMJ. Key facts: 7,998 reports in FY2025, 33% reporting rate, SAPRO program, independent special trial counsel since 2023.
Sexual grooming
Sexual grooming is the process of building trust with a child to prepare sexual abuse; also called online grooming or child grooming. Covers grooming strategies, online versus offline patterns, UNICEF prevalence data, and grooming laws in the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, also called unwelcome sexual conduct or sex-based harassment, is sex discrimination under Title VII, taking quid pro quo and hostile work environment forms, prohibited in nearly two-thirds of UN states and governed by ILO Convention 190.
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, also called the POSH Act, is an Indian law protecting women from workplace sexual harassment.
Sexual misconduct
Sexual misconduct is a non-legal umbrella term for unwelcome or non-consensual sexual behavior, spanning harassment, abuse, and assault, used in workplace, medical, academic, military, and UN policies; neither Black's nor Ballentine's law dictionaries define it.
Sexual penetration
Sexual penetration, also known as penetrative sex, is the placing of a penis, finger, or object into the vagina or anus, or a sex organ into the mouth.
Sexual predator
Sexual predator is a legal designation, mainly in US law, for convicted sex offenders judged likely to reoffend; it triggers civil commitment, registration, and restrictions, grounded in Washington's 1990 act and Kansas v. Hendricks.
Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery: holding a person in slavery and forcing sexual acts or services. Also called sex slavery, enslavement for sexual exploitation; overlaps sex trafficking. Key facts: ISIL slave markets in Raqqa, ILO $173 billion sexual-exploitation profits, 6.3 million victims in 2021.
Sexual violence in South Africa
Sexual violence in South Africa covers rape, sexual assault, and femicide under the 2007 Sexual Offences Act, with among the world's highest recorded rates, roughly one-third of rapes unreported, and a National Strategic Plan on GBVF (2020-2030) coordinating response.
Sexy Beast
Sexy Beast is a 2000 British-Spanish crime drama and black comedy, the feature debut of director Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane.
Shabeh (torture)
Shabeh (shabah, shabach) is a torture method of prolonged binding in painful stress positions, documented in Israeli, Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Syrian detention. Known variants include the frog-squat and banana; Israel's High Court ruled its systematic use illegal in 1999.
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar
Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, elder brother of Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company co-founder, was shot dead on 12 February 1981 at a Prabhadevi petrol pump by Manya Surve and Pathan gang plotters, triggering Mumbai's gang war.
Shadow docket
Shadow docket: informal name, coined by William Baude in 2015, for US Supreme Court unsigned orders and emergency rulings issued without full briefing, argument, or explanation, distinct from the merits docket.
Shaggy defense
Shaggy defense: informal legal term for categorical denial ("it wasn't me") despite overwhelming evidence, from Shaggy's 2000 song; coined by Slate's Josh Levin for R. Kelly's 2008 child-pornography trial defense.
Shahabuddin Ahmed (শাহাবুদ্দীন আহমেদ)
Shahabuddin Ahmed (শাহাবুদ্দীন আহমেদ), 1930–2022, Bangladeshi jurist; Chief Justice 1990–1995, acting president 1990–1991 after Ershad's fall, and elected President 1996–2001; distinct from president Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Shahid Azmi
Shahid Azmi, Mumbai criminal defence lawyer for terror accused (7/11 train blasts, Malegaon 2006, Fahim Ansari in 26/11), himself acquitted under TADA in 2001; secured 17 reported acquittals before his 2010 murder in Kurla.
Shakti Mills gang rape
Shakti Mills gang rape: 22 August 2013 assault of a 22-year-old photojournalist by five men in Mumbai's abandoned Shakti Mills compound; rapid arrests, first Section 376E death sentences, commuted to life by Bombay High Court in 2021.
Shalina D. Kumar
Shalina D. Kumar, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר)
Shalom Nagar (שלום נגר), Yemenite-born Israeli prison guard who hanged Adolf Eichmann on June 1, 1962, Israel's only judicial execution; identity kept secret for about thirty years before his 2004 interview; died 2024.
Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, British barrister, and Labour peer; director of Liberty 2003-2016; chaired the 2016 Labour antisemitism inquiry; Shadow Attorney General 2016-2020; author of On Liberty.
Shamnad Basheer
Shamnad Basheer (1976–2019), Indian IP law scholar, NUJS MHRD chair professor, founder of the SpicyIP blog and the IDIA legal-education access project, Novartis case amicus, Infosys Prize in Humanities winner.
Shanghai Communiqué
The Shanghai Communiqué is the joint statement issued by the United States and China on February 27, 1972, at the conclusion of Nixon's visit to China.