Enter RealStars’ fiction writing competition for young people – a unique opportunity to write about one of important life’s important issues: Fair Sex – everyone’s right to sex on equal terms. And you can win fantastic prizes. The theme for the competition is RealStars’ message: Fair Sex – Against Trafficking. Be inspired by ‘Travel and… Read more »
Fair Sex
SURVIVOR STORIES – Ayesha
When people say that women choose this life, I feel an urge to laugh. Do they know how many women like me that have tried to escape, but have been beaten senseless when they’re caught? TO THE MEN THAT BUY US, we are nothing more then meat. To everyone else in society, we simply do… Read more »
Do you believe ‘the happy hore’ is real?
Join us for one of our school visits with our process leaders. During the visit at Sigtuna Folkhögskola the fourth week of January this question was posed by a student: ‘What is interesting is that every time I talk to guys about this question they reply in a completely different way than us girls. I… Read more »
The Swedish Sex Purchase Act: what are the benefits? And is there a connection between the porn industry and human trafficking?
During the third week of January Realstars visited a number of high schools in the Stockholm area: Kunskapsgymnasiet in the Ericsson Globe and Fredrika Bremergymnaiserna in Haninge. We discussed many different and interesting subjects, in particular the Swedish Sex Purchase Act which was introduced in 1999. This act implies that a person who purchases sexual… Read more »
SURVIVOR STORIES – Kolab & Phalla
Kolab doesn’t know who her real parents are. She was allowed to go to school until year five, but horrible conditions caused a situation that forced her into selling drugs and sex at a karaoke bar. Kolab is born in 1991 and grew up on a farm in Cambodia. On the farm, she was treated… Read more »
Porn, prostitution and trafficking
Pornography is being consumed by younger and younger people and has more aggressive content today than previously. England has responded with a new law. RealStars considers pornography’s link to prostitution and trafficking. People don’t speak about pornography, but you see it as soon as you turn on the computer. Pornography today is different to the… Read more »
Colour Me Safe UF helps RealStars
Three students in Trollhättan started a ‘UF’* company and developed a combined swizzle stick and drug testing device to prevent girls being drugged and becoming easy targets for rape. They have now decided to donate 10% of their profits to RealStars. Ida, Elin and Sofie are currently undertaking their final year of Hotel and Tourism… Read more »
“Thank you so much for visiting us, it was very informative”
Today is the last of four days we have spent at Alströmergymnasiet (Alströmer high school) in Alingsås. Our days have been filled with discussions, creative work and interaction with very interested and engaged students. We have met 250 students in total and discussed subjects such as human trafficking in Europe, organised crime in the global… Read more »
Students at Borgarskolan in Gaevle discuss how the hotel industry, tourism industry, and trafficking are interrelated
On Wednesday the 14th of January, RealStars visited Borgarskolan in Gaevle. The students there are awesome, and study hotel- and tourism management. During our workshop, the students discussed how the hotel industry, the tourism industry, and trafficking are interrelated. They wrote the discussion outcomes down on posters, and also proposed suggestions on how the different… Read more »
SPACE International – an organisation established for and by survivors of prostitution
SPACE International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment) was founded by a group of sex trafficking survivors. They are now working to end global human trafficking once and for all. The goal of the organisation is to inform the public about the violence and abuse that always come with prostitution, but also to advocate to governments… Read more »