ECPAT UK - End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes.
ECPAT UK is active in research, campaigning and lobbying government to prevent child exploitation and protect children in tourism and child victims of trafficking.
PAHT project holds Good Practice Exchange in The Hague
Last Thursday, 26 January, Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking (PAHT) held the second event of the two-year project - a Good Practice Exchange, in The Hague, Netherlands. The event was hosted by the Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal (the Senate), Parliament of the Netherlands and was attended by 32 participants from across the European Union.
Five women storm into the record books with Atlantic row for ECPAT UK
21st January, 2012
At about 8.20pm today (GMT-4), Row for Freedom, a five-woman rowing team fundraising for two anti-trafficking charities, arrived in Barbados after spending 45 days crossing the Atlantic Ocean unaided – setting two new world records.
ECPAT UK welcomes end of 'gentleman's agreement' to return trafficked children to France
17 January 2012
ECPAT UK was shocked and saddened to learn that children who had been trafficked into the UK for exploitation were sent immediately back to France due to a secret ‘gentleman’s agreement’ that had been in place for at least 16 years.
The Landing in Dover report from Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner for England & Wales, discovered that unaccompanied children arriving into Kent were returned to France if they did not apply for asylum straightaway. This was despite the fact that many of the children were often ill, hungry, tired and traumatised – a clear breach of the safeguarding measures imposed by the United Nations Rights of the Child legislation and government safeguarding guidance.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
16 December 2011
It was 20 years ago today that the UK Government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – a universally agreed set of human rights standards that the UK government ratified in 1991.
Convicted child sex offender Duncan Grant returns to the UK
14th December 2011
A convicted child sex offender, Duncan Grant, has today returned to the UK after serving a sentence for sexually abusing children at an orphanage that he ran in India.
Duncan Grant and fellow Briton, Allan Waters, were found guilty of sexual abuse at the Anchorage Orphanage in Mumbai in 2006, which Grant set up for street children in 1995. Grant had run the orphanage with funds raised in the UK under a separate charity.
On the Safe Side report launched
ECPAT UK has launched its On the Safe Side report, which details 10 principles for the safe accommodation of child victims of trafficking.
Blog: Review of 'The birds, only the birds can see' - a play about sex trafficking
By Chloe Setter, ECPAT UK Information Officer
‘The birds, only the birds can see’ is a production that includes physical theatre, live music and songs – not something that you might imagine would sit well with a show that describes itself as ‘a play about sex trafficking’. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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Last Thursday, 26 January, Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking (PAHT) held the second event of the two-year project - a Good Practice…
21st January, 2012
At about 8.20pm today (GMT-4), Row for Freedom, a five-woman rowing team fundraising for…
17 January 2012
ECPAT UK was shocked and saddened to learn that children who had been trafficked into the UK for exploitation were sent immediately back to France due to a secret ‘gentleman’s…
ECPATUK: 'Naked rowers: We couldn't sleep apart after 45 days crossing sea' via @standardnews http://t.co/NtwjK3zi #rowforfreedom #ecpatuk
ECPATUK: @nomoreslaves Thanks so much for #ff!
ECPATUK: 'Naked rowers: We couldn't sleep apart after 45 days crossing sea' via @standardnews http://t.co/NtwjK3zi #rowforfreedom #ecpatuk
ECPATUK: @nomoreslaves Thanks so much for #ff!
ECPATUK: RT @SophRudkins: So scary how oblivious we are to #humantrafficking within our own country. Follow @ECPATUK & RT
ECPATUK: #ECPATUK hosting working group meeting on #childtrafficking for #cannabis production this afternoon #Vietnam #humantrafficking Pls RT
ECPATUK: Read #ECPATUK paper on Safeguarding children trafficked to UK to work in #cannabis factories http://t.co/NjAyv1am #childtrafficking Pls RT