Continuing this month’s focus on Human Trafficking, I would like to draw your attention to Love146 who are working towards the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation. Please read the story of why they are called Love146. It’s heart-breaking. “We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at [...]
This past month has been one filled with fresh initiative, new precedent, and victory! Across the last few weeks we have launched the new A21 website, held school presentations in three countries worldwide, began the new A21 internship program in Greece, and saw our first court case VICTORY! We have also been able to spread [...]
A third world child pursues the dream of freedom but becomes a victim of exploitation This brilliant animation was made by Effie Pappa, a student of the graphic design department of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI), with music and sound effects by Marietta Fafouti.
MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) have launched the Greek version of their site. I am going to do a series of posts on Human Trafficking and the campaign in English but much of the information is now available in Greek at the link above. What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is the trade of [...]
There are very few details on this news at the moment. Bulgarian police crack sex-trafficking ring Mon 30 Jun 2008 Bulgarian police said on Monday they had broken an international sex-trafficking ring and arrested a Greek man believed to have run the operation. The women from Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan were sent as sex workers [...]
Via the Greek Helsinki Monitor An article by Apostolis Fotiadis for the Inter Press Service News Agency about Nigerian women who are trafficked to Greece to work on the streets in downtown Athens. ATHENS, Sep 25 (IPS) Every night besides the town hall of Athens, next to Omonia square, where the narrow streets of the [...]
Via Kathimerini Greece has made some progress in the problem of human trafficking, according to the 2006 US State Department report. The country has been removed from the watchlist of places that are not doing enough to combat this crime. I am not entirely sure if this is a good thing. I hope that this [...]
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