Musikhjälpen (Music Aid) is one of the most famous non-profit initiatives in Sweden. During a week in 2011, they collected a whooping 18 million SEK for various non-profit organizations. Last year’s theme ”All girls have the right to go to school” captivated the Swedish people. A number of help organizations all over Europe received a… Read more »
Trafficking
”A happy ending isn’t so bad” – The way people talk about trafficking
Most Swedes have probably read one of the many articles which recently discussed Thai massage parlors and trafficking which occurs at some of these parlors. Kalla Fakta visited a some of these parlors and found that eight out of ten offered sexual services and so called ”happy endings”. Even though experts state that both human… Read more »
European Football Championship – no to sex trade
The European Football Championship, the excitement, partying and high stakes are over for this time. Increased sex trade and trafficking has once again been observed as a dark side of the championship. The headlines found in Swedish media were primarily about Femen, a Ukrainian feminist protest group who use their bodies as a weapon against… Read more »
“See Me Not” a girls path to freedom from a brothel in India
Réal Laplaine writes fiction books that have a moral, warm and human tone. His latest book SEE ME NOT is a little gem, a unique book about a twelve-year-old girl’s fate as a sex slave in India. The book, while touching and engaging, also gives a fresh note amongst all the heavy books covering this… Read more »
Film tip: HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Just like imdb.com describes the film ”Everyday young girls are bought and sold”, it seems fitting to add ”over and over….and over…again” – that is the general plot of the movie. A global, illegal operation where the lives of young women are treated as a piece of meat on the most horrific market you can… Read more »
“He’s a John Doe”
RealStars welcome our guest-blogger Sari Vettenranta. Sari has a degree in journalism and is currently focused on criminology. She is adamant that all people should be allowed to live their lives without being oppressed or exposed to systematic abuse. Remember the outcry during spring 2010, when the Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask (M) suggested that… Read more »
Sex trafficking – inside the business of modern slavery
As you sip your morning latte while reading this book review on your computer, Over one million woman and children from around the globe are held captive as slaves and forced to have sex with men around the clock, some for less then the price of your coffee. These woman and children are far from… Read more »
We are all humans
Reading Sunday DN* is an almost religious experience for me. A cup of tea, my favourite bread and a newspaper hot off the presses filled with articles. A little bubble of cosiness envelops me and takes me through what is otherwise the most boring day of the week. But it so happened that this Sunday… Read more »
Caroline Engvall: Human trafficking affects our own youths.
Close your eyes and think about human trafficking. I know exactly what you’re thinking. The victim is a woman. Probably from a Baltic country or perhaps from Romania. Force to be here, cheated, locked up. Clearly a so-called victim of trafficking. Right? But the fact is that the picture is much broader than that –… Read more »
The Body Shop against human trafficking of children and young people
In June 2010, The Body Shop started their biggest campaign so far. In cooperation with ECPAT, the campaign “Stop sex trafficking of children and young people” was started as a petition, and means of making the government realise the seriousness of sex trafficking of children and young people. They demand that the government: 1. Take… Read more »