We have spoken to Patrik Cederlöf at the County Administrative Board in Stockholm, the authority which co-ordinates the work against human trafficking and prostitution between authorities and nonprofit organizations in Sweden. What is your assignment? ”We have received the mandate for coordination and it is now clear that we have been given renewed trust until… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Trafficking
Compassion as balance for rationality – three questions for Sasja Beslik
Three questions moves forth to Sasja Beslik, chief of responsible investments at Nordea, formerly from Banco Funds. Recently he received an important award from Young Global Leader 2011 from World Economic Forum, which makes it even more interesting to ask him questions regarding ethics and Fair Sex. Today’s post differs from the earlier ones. Sasja… Read more »
A new government initiative regarding ethics and sex trade
The public agencies should increase its knowledge to handle and prevent the purchase of Sexual Services. The government has invested ten million Swedish crowns not only to prevent but also to increase knowledge of purchase of sexual services and consumption of pornography during government work. We have spoken to Krus (Kompetensrådet för utveckling i staten)… Read more »
News from RealStars
Yes, we are actively working to inspire more people to join us to create a society free from sex trafficking. We are planning a school project and I have contacted the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs (Ungdomsstyrelsen). I received many questions. I said that we are a nonprofit organization (RealStars) and that many wonderful… Read more »
When and how can you talk about sex?
Sex arouses emotions, sex awakens thoughts and imaginations we don’t rashly share in conversation with others. We think before we discuss sexuality. We reflect on when it fits and how it is said. There is a still a great need to “talk about it” and sex gets our attention. Personal stories of unfair sex are… Read more »
What’s your view?
Musician and pedagogue, Lotta Johanson who works both in Sweden and abroad, is a guest on RealStars’ blog. You see them everywhere, people believing themselves to be superior to others, people who claim power and control other people’s lives. People who even think they have the right to conquer another person’s body. Conquer, i.e. to… Read more »
Trafficking and Unfair sex is on everyone’s lips this week!
“Musikhjälpen” in Malmö with a fundraising marathon against trafficking, debate about EU-legislation on trafficking at Brännpunkt, and now girls on Twitter coming forward on seuality in a gey zone. Everything is revolving around “unfair sex”, or the oppsite of FAIR SEX. Musikhjälpen in Malmö – Artists and the wide public taking a stand against trafficking…. Read more »
Make Fair Sex Real: the name of the web campaign we are about to launch
We have earlier said that the EU during the last half of the year has treated the issue of human trafficking in a Directive with some tightening up on certain areas. One important point was unfortunately negotiated away when the Council came into the picture: that it shall become criminal to buy sex from victims… Read more »
Lönsamheten och efterfrågan driver sextrafficking
Trafficking and me
Human trafficking, sex trafficking, all these terrible destinies you can read about. They concern all of us, sometimes just for a moment and other times they continue echoing in the head, not seldom when I meet my young female relatives or hug my daughters. They smile so beautifully and greet every day with confidence and… Read more »