Last night Swedish TV4 news featured the increased incidence of prostitution and probable sex trafficking in Falun during the festivities around the 2015 World Skiing Championships. The police and authorities have tried with the help of the tourism industry and the public’s help to tackle problems in a proactive manner. However, they still face criticism… Read more »
Sex debate about 50 Shades of Grey
Last week REALSTARS participated in Kulturhuset’s event ‘Sex debate and film screening: Fifty shades of moral panic?’. A panel discussion took place after a special screening of The Ceremony, a movie about famous French dominatrix Catherine Robbe-Gillet. Sex advisor Katerina Janouch, director Lina Mannheimer, journalist Quetzala Blanco and debater and BDSM practitioner Zandar Hedlund primarily… Read more »
High school teachers in Gothenburg? Welcome to an inspiring meeting about digital teaching aids!
As you may know, Realstars is working on many issues of the society. We are collectively working for a socially sustainable society and base much of our work on the UNRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Now we are inviting, together with Center för… Read more »
Article in Dagens Industri
The business world has an enormous responsibility in the fight against sex trafficking. RealStars has for many years been conducting various cooperating projects with the business community to specifically address trafficking for sexual purpose in the work of CSR. On Monday (16/2) RealStars’ founder Malin Roux, along with Sasha Beslik at Nordea, Inger Mattson at… Read more »
Questions to the Rescue Mission
The Gothenburg Rescue Mission aim is to recognize and counter the social conditions that lead to and exacerbate vulnerability and exclusion. They work on a broad basis with the vision that “every person has the right to a dignified life.” We asked a few questions to the Rescue Mission and here are the answers. You… Read more »
Real Stars visit even more dedicated, intuitive students at Jensen North
On february 5th RealStars visited the Jensen North high school, where we got to meet two groups of students that made a stand – in a creative way – against trafficking. During the visit the student were asked “Are there examples of unfair sex?”. On the first visit one student responded that strip clubs is… Read more »
Grillska skolan engaged in counteraction against trafficking
In the beginning of February there were two visits at Grillska Skolan and the students in the two English classes that we met got an extra challenge whilst trying to discuss and answer the questions in English. On our first visit with the high school juniors we had an engaging and inspiring discussion. We discussed… Read more »
Call for action: End the proposition of Rom’s Red Light District
At this moment a proposition is being discussed, about a “Red Light Zone” in Rome, with the purpose to legalize prostitution and fine the prostitutes for sex-trades happening outside of the zone. Help us stop this bill by signing the petition that you can find here! In Mars 2014 senator Maria Spilabotte, with the support of… Read more »
Kajsa Wahlberg speaks about the impact of the Sex Purchase Act
Following the debate initiated by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (Riksförbundet för Sexuell Upplysning – RFSU) on the impact of the Swedish Sex Purchase Act’s, we emailed Kajsa Wahlberg, a detective at the National Police and National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking. We wanted to hear directly from her about how the Police see the… Read more »
Real Stars Launches Fiction Writing Competition – Great Prizes to Win!
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 »
