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.
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.
ECPAT UK gives evidence at Education Select Committee
ECPAT UK has given evidence to the Education Select Committee as part of its inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of the child protection system in the United Kingdom, with particular reference to children who may be victims of trafficking.
During the Committee’s Third Oral Evidence Session (30 November), ECPAT UK Deputy Director Colin Walker raised a number of critical points that ECPAT UK believes must be addressed in order to prevent the trafficking of children into and within the UK, and to ensure that child victims are given the support they require and are entitled to.
Parliamentarians against Human Trafficking group holds first international seminar
25 November 2011
Parliamentarians and NGOs from across Europe convened in the House of Commons for the inaugural seminar of the Parliamentarians against Human Trafficking (PAHT) project on 24 November.
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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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…
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…
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…
ECPATUK: Successful #ECPATUK led Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking event in The Hague yest on #nationalrapporteurs http://t.co/o2ltbdiQ
ECPATUK: Successful #ECPATUK led Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking event in The Hague yest on #nationalrapporteurs http://t.co/o2ltbdiQ
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ECPATUK: RT @B_NRM: Laatste hand aan speech voor Parliamentarians Against Human Trafficking met o.a. @ECPATUK #mensenhandel http://t.co/D2dwAxEw
ECPATUK: Hazlemere woman smashes two world records http://t.co/UMinLjKu
ECPATUK: 'Fierce Female Five Complete 3,000 Mile Atlantic Row' via @thefreshoutlook http://t.co/IC2kW1cw