Human Rights 2015: an overview by Amnesty International Number of sex workers: 2200- 3600 according to the estimation made in 2010 by the Institute for public heath.

HIV/AIDS rates: There have been registered 239 cases of HIV/AIDS until the end of February 2014. Legal situation around sex work: Individual sex work in public spaces is illegal, it is an administrative offense and it is regarded as a violation against the public order (art.

"Mozhe vodka" ["may I vodka"], a girl around 17 asks in broken Macedonian, perching herself on the edge of our table. Outside, there are no signs or any other indications that this is supposed to be a bar. Seven scantily clad girls aged 16 to 20 are huddled around the table, next to a battered air-heater as if straight out of the changing room on a building site.

The streets are virtually deserted after 9 p.m., permeated by the stale smell of mutton fat. The pub is a 3 by 4 m room, with five tables and a bar. After a thorough inspection from behind the shutters, the owner unlocks the door.

This is not the kind of relationship that exists between most pimps and prostitutes.

Business was off, and the Greeks who vacationed at nearby Lake Okhrid had failed to turn up for the summer holidays. Only two paved roads wind past rows of hastily constructed brick buildings with shops selling produce and Chinese kitsch.

19 from the Law on misdemeanors against the public order and peace).

The same article states that it is punishable by a fine to provide (rent) space for an act of prostitution.

Realizing that the clients are Bulgarian, four of the girls stalk out through the door behind the bar.It was midnight on a Friday and the carnival of horrors was open for business. Maks literally owns Lena and many other girls who service dozens of men a night at his command.Maks, a swaggering pimp in this drab town notable only for its endless strip of bordellos, appeared at the hotel room door with an adolescent girl in tow. With one arm draped around 17-year-old Lena’s neck, Maks’ free hand found its way up her white T-shirt. With civil war threatening to break out between Macedonian Slavs and ethnic Albanians, Maks was encouraged to see prospective new customers.Before we could even take our bags up to the sparsely furnished rooms, Meti came calling.Meti, another pimp and the owner of the Coca-Cola and Bela Dona bars just down the street, was eager to show us his girls.Velesta’s main attraction is cheap sex — performed by beautiful girls kept under lock and key.Meeting with Meti We checked into the Hotel Ekslusiv, where Velesta’s sex slaves are forced to serve clients. by Yovo Nikolov (Capital, Bulgaria) "Mozhe vodka" ["may I vodka"], a girl around 17 asks in broken Macedonian, perching herself on the edge of our table. The big, bare-brick houses are inhabited by Albanians only. Her name is Deya, or at least that's what she says. This is one of the four bars offering sex services in the Macedonian village of Veleste, 10 km from Ohrid.They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US.The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles.On this day in 1975 French sex workers occupied the Saint-Nizier church in Lyon for 8 days in a desperate attempt to call attention to their worsened working conditions.On 10th June at 5 o'clock the Church was brutally raided and cleared by police forces.When I wrote my absurdly controversial post about the liberal political sites that should not be trusted, many people freaked out that I hadn’t named similar conservative sites. For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case.Buzzfeed has an article about those and how many of them are run by teenagers in Macedonia who couldn’t care less about the election. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.