It is 11 a.m. on a weekday in late June in Amsterdam’s De Wallen district, and a clean-up operation is underway. Street sweeping machines are collecting trash that hints at a raucous time the night ...

Amsterdam will ban visitors to the city's infamous Red-Light district from smoking marijuana and limit alcohol sales in the area starting in mid-May in response to complaints from local residents ...

Sex workers in Amsterdam say they are being unfairly targeted by city plans to tame its red light district. Known as De Wallen, the city’s centuries-old district takes its nickname from the red neon ...

It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the city’s red-light district. The infamous neighborhood has long been ...

April 6 (UPI) --Amsterdam sex work advocates are condemning a plan to move the city's famed red-light district from the historic neighborhood of De Wallen to an erotic center on the outskirts of the ...

The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residents, but sex workers oppose measures recently put in place. Now the city is looking to set up legal prostitution elsewhere. By Claire Moses ...

Amsterdam’s long-awaited plans to diminish its red-light district and establish a legal alternative "erotic center" continue to face pushback from sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs. City ...

A petition has brought debate to the Parliament in the Netherlands. Amsterdam has long been held as the model for the modern sex industry, with prostitution legalized and rebranded as part of the ...