Sexual exploitation: a growing menace is an annual report on development and trends regarding sexual exploitation during 2012. The report was produced by Fondation Scelles, a French organisation founded by Jean and Jeannes Scelles in 1994. This report is part of the organisations effort to create an awareness regarding prostitution and trafficking among politicians, but… Read more »
Trafficking
Should a pimp really be judging a rape case?
A man stands up and says: “I have bought sex twice in my entire life but after hearing this I will never do it again. I could not live with myself”. Wiesbaden is a small city near Frankfurt with population of just under three hundred thousand. It used to be a place where the European… Read more »
RealStars conducts lectures for entire schools!
Students from the Frida Upper Secondary School in Vänersborg. Lately RealStars have been conducting several mass lectures at upper secondary schools, among others for the entire Frida upper secondary school in Vänersborg and Drottning Blankas upper secondary school in Kungsbacka. Both lectures were for approximately 150 students. At the Frida school we also conducted practical… Read more »
Milvea – “clothes that make a difference”
RealStars has interviewed Mikael Lestander who is the founder of the social enterprise Mileva which aims to give new hope for women who have been subjected to trafficking. What is Milvea? Mileva is a social enterprise aiming to provide a better life for women who have been subjected to trafficking and prostitution. We are managing… Read more »
We thank you for an exciting year!
We are coming to the end of an eventful year for Realstars. One of our goals for 2013 was to grow and get more people engaged to on a large scale drive and channel opinion against trafficking and for Fair Sex. We have done this on three levels; the social level, by affecting EU to… Read more »
How does sex sell in advertisements??
Two professors at The Carlson School of Management have finished a study on the most effective way to use sex in ads when targeting men and women. They came to the conclusion that sexual references sell better to men in all cases. But for women, the references work best if they are a part of,… Read more »
France one step closer to Sex Purchase Act
Politicians in the National Assembly have accepted aspects of the proposals to criminalise the sex buyer if the legislation is passed. The Swedish Sex Purchase Act is the inspiration for the proposal. The lower house is now set to consider the proposed act on Wednesday. According to the proposal buying sex will be punishable by… Read more »
Beetroot – an IT firm that supports RealStars
Beetroot Resources is a Swedish IT firm based in Ukraine and Moldavia, that has chosen to support RealStars’ work against trafficking. “We operate in two countries that are very exposed as recruitment nations for sex trade and trafficking and being so close to the rugged reality of it, we feel that we want to actively… Read more »
The commitment that makes a difference – Dreamgrupp in cooperation with Beginning of Life (BoL)
Not so long ago we came in contact with Mia Börjesson, who works as a supervisor and is also the source of inspiration for various projects relating to health promotion in the field of psychosocial work, with a focus on children and teenagers. As many of you already know, we at Realstars believe that it… Read more »
Part 2 – The Significance of the Prohibition of Purchase of Sexual Services
“Men who purchase sex 2013” was the theme for this year’s event leading up to the anti-trafficking day. In order to summarize the evening we will post a mini-series on what was discussed, and what some of the conclusions were. This post will address the Swedish penal provision “the prohibition if purchase of sexual services”… Read more »
