Posts By: Realstars

Watched Lilja 4-ever and was very moved

Marknadscheferna, Realstars and Caroline af Ugglas are cooperating against trafficking. Anders Grönvall: About his support for RealStars’ work against trafficking by purchasing Caroline af Ugglas’ painting. ”I wanted to do something to support the work against trafficking. A few years ago, I watched the movie Lilja 4-ever and was very moved. It happens here in… Read more »

Caroline af Ugglas’ choir: ”it all sounds pretty good at the end of the term”

Realstars want to thank Caroline af Ugglas’ choir who have chosen to support Realstars’ work against trafficking. ”Kör för alla” (“Choir for All”) sing together in Stockholm once a week. The choir consists of about 1200 singers and is therefore the largest in Sweden. The choir is led by Caroline af Ugglas and her husband… Read more »

Give the victim their own voice

Last week the play ”Att öva på våldtäkt” was hosted at Folkteatern’s Vita scen (“White Stage”). The play is meant to give the victim their own voice, to be the thing that describes the assault and makes the perpetrator visible in a new way using its grants. The play will discuss and also problematize power… Read more »

My thoughts about RealStars event at Bio Roy, May 23rd

Last month I was invited to the RealStars event: Trafficking in the Real World and in Popular Culture. I was asked to talk about mine and Katarina Gregersdotter’s book: Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond, in which eleven researchers analyze rape and sexual violence in crime thrillers. During the evening, the audience listened… Read more »

Stop Female Death in Advertising

Stop Female Death In Advertising is Lisa Hågeby’s master’s dissertation at Beckman’s University of Design. The project shows how women in commercials are made submissive on a grand scale. To illustrate the phenomenon, she picked the most extreme form of submission, images that allude to a dead woman. From ReaStars’ perspective, it is not hard… Read more »

EU is launching a platform against human trading

How can organizations in society get together and become a driving force in eradicating trafficking? A small step was taken May 31 in Brussels as non-profit organizations from EU countries gathered for the first time in the new forum to lay the foundation for what will help to make a change. The originators, Cecilia Malmström… Read more »

Celebrities donate clothes against trafficking

Erikshjälpen starts #intetillsalu, which is an amazing initiative with the purpose of creating awareness and interest in preventing human trading with children. Second-hand clothes from celebrities as well as from regular Swedes are being sold to benefit the work against trafficking. Sarah Dawn Finer, Malena Ernman, Peter Jöback, Mando Diao, Carina Berg and many others… Read more »

Business Against Trafficking can be seen in the media

It is now possible to read about our collaboration with businesses to encourage social responsibility against trafficking, in the GT newspaper. We are immensely thankful for all our partners who have made this project possible; Caroline af Ugglas, Marknadscheferna, Elanders, Faceways and A-ramar. Thank you! Malin for Realstars Sign our petition for a Europe free… Read more »