Fashion changes every season and we are updated with the latest trends. But to have style you don’t have to follow trends. Style is something individual, a way for you to show the world who you are. Your style probably says more about you than you might think. Someone’s style is very individual and that… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Fair Sex
RealStars in Amsterdam
As a part of RealStars’ mission to reach people in different European countries. After Brussels, we visited a hotspot for prostitution: Amsterdam, where we met large anti-trafficking organizations like Fairwork, HVO Querido and Stop the Traffik. During the meetings, it became clear quite early that the Dutch legislation is almost the exact opposite of the… Read more »
The Swedish model
When it comes to adopting a Sex Trade Law, Sweden is ahead. When the Swedish law was coined in 1999, it was the first in Europe to criminalize the sex buyer. The Swedish model is considered an example in many countries. Recently, the Danish government rejected such a law, but other countries are interested in… Read more »
Silent witnesses have a responsibility
Last Sunday was the UN national day for UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. With the subject already on the agenda, we take the opportunity to submit this post that writer Bengt Alvång made on Göteborgs-Posten’s letters to the editor three years ago. For every abused child, there is an adult… Read more »
Brussels – is this where we should be?
RealStars in Brussels! Yep, it is time to take a step out into Europe and spread the message of Fair Sex through meetings with politicians, lobbyists and other organizations (non-profit). Me and Vanessa Corneliusson were at location. We started with meeting the Swedish Members of the European Parliament and afterwards, we visited the EU Commission,… Read more »
Art for Fair Sex visits NTI Gymnasiet
Two classes from the esthetical program at NTI Gymnasiet in Gothenburg was given the assignment to interpret the meaning of Fair Sex. This was done as a way to get young people to take interest in human rights. The students were very committed and made several nice creations. An album with more of the students’… Read more »
An important contribution to the prostitution debate
The year is 2010. There is a fiery debate in Sweden about the being or not being of prostitution. In the middle of the chaotic discussions, Kajsa Ekis Ekman publishes her debut book “Varat och varan: Prostitution, surrogatmödraskap och den delade människan”. “Varat och varan” is important in many aspects. It’s a debate book which… Read more »
Family freed of charges in Swedish trafficking case
A couple charged with trafficking in persons in Gothenburg, Sweden, was recently freed of all charges. The husband of the family had travelled to Serbia, visiting acquaintances, and brought with him back to Sweden a 14-year-old girl from a poor family, to marry his adult son. The girl supposedly agreed to this and her father… Read more »
1500 signatures for EU on the Anti-Trafficking Day
The highlight of the campaign and the vision A Europe free from trafficking! Yes, we sent all signatures to EU decision-makers on the Anti-Trafficking Day, October 18. Also the Anti-Trafficking Day at Moderna Museet (The Museum of Modern Art). Let’s talk about Sex, Fair Sex, (more info about the event and some short films will… Read more »
The soul is not for sale…
Traffickers sell flesh for money, they deal in pain, their product is slavery, their greed betrays them. They try but can never hide, we see them in dark corners, we know them by their deeds, they do not shine but flicker only in the consuming darkness Their blood soaked fingers smear their lips with crimson,… Read more »