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Stop the Traffic:
"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms” - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4
In the West African country of Togo, a young boy who up until that point had managed to attend school wanted to enter high school but he could not afford the fee of about $A8 a year. The Headmaster of the school kept on asking him to leave. Eventually he was forced to leave school. Another young girl in Togo was forced to leave school after the death of her father from AIDS. This was when they were introduced to traffickers. These people promised them jobs and training in nearby Côte d’Ivoire
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Push for special visa for sex trafficking victims
The Federal Government is being urged to create a special category of protection visa for overseas victims of sex trafficking. ABC
Sex trafficking in SE Asia on the increase
Human rights workers said more women and children in Southeast Asia are being trafficked to meet the demand of sex tourists. Governments in the region are being urged to increase cooperation to crack down on sex tourism and child trafficking. The China Post
Report reveals harsh trafficking tactics
Human traffickers in southeastern Europe are increasingly targeting children over the Internet, in schools and in youth groups, according to international officials. International Herald Tribune
East Timor Church talks collapse
The Catholic Church in East Timor has said discussions with the government have failed to resolve the demands of demonstrators who gathered outside government buildings in Dili. The clergy-led protests were held in response to the government's proposal to scrap compulsory religious education in schools and the move to drop trials over atrocities committed by Indonesian militias during the 1999 referendum. AFP |
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Girls at War
Up to 120,000 girls are living or fighting on the frontline of the world's combat zones. Many are being recruited or abducted by militia groups, and used as sex slaves, in conflicts from Africa to South Asia. ABC
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Beyond sex trafficking
"We ignore forms of trafficking outside the sex industry at our peril. We must move our attention beyond sex trafficking to other industries...to protect immigrants from exploitation. People trafficking is modern day slavery. Sexual slavery is particularly shocking but in 2005, any kind of slavery is unacceptable.” - Georgina Costello New Matilda
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Trafficking Fact Sheet: UNICEF
Get all the facts on the trafficking of children around the globe and find out what is needed to end this practice.
www.unicef.org/protection/files/trafficking.pdf
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The Deported
A documentary about asylum seekers who have been rejected by countries they have attempted to reach. One of the stories features Daouda, a young man from Mali who took one year to get to France where his parents, brothers and sisters have residency. The French authorities sent him back to Mali within 24 hours.
SBS TV - Thursday May 12th, 2005 2pm |
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Prayer to end Trafficking
"We are sorrowful and our spirits angry that human dignity is being degraded through deception and threats of force. Help the violators to be transformed and enlightened to realise the scope of their unjust actions.”
Franciscans International
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Trafficking
