Campaigns
ECPAT UK marks Anti-Slavery Day 2011
The four-time Olympic gold medal-winning rower Sir Matthew Pinsent today helped ECPAT UK mark Anti-Slavery Day 2011 with an event on the Thames in London.
Parliamentarians, including Baroness Butler-Sloss, Baroness Goudie, Lord McColl, Catherine McKinnell MP, Peter Bone MP, Mark Durkan MP, Denis MacShane MP, Fiona Mactaggart MP, Jim Shannon MP, Gavin Shuker MP and David Simpson MP, attended the launch of ECPAT UK’s latest report, Watch over me, in conjunction with Row for Freedom – a team of six rowers who aim to cross the Atlantic this winter to raise awareness of human trafficking.
Three Small Steps to protect child victims of trafficking
The Three Small Steps Campaign was launched in 2007 by ECPAT UK and World Vision UK. Following a number of successful outcomes for the campaign, ECPAT UK relaunched the campaign in 2009 focusing on new aims and objectives, calling for safe accommodation, guardianship and the introduction of a National Rapporteur on trafficking.
Protecting children in tourism
Child sex tourism (commercial sexual exploitation of children in tourism) exists in every part of the world and is growing and becoming increasingly more complex. The use of new technologies, cheaper air travel, opening up of borders, and visa free travel are making it more challenging to monitor, prevent and prosecute those responsible for this abuse.
ECPAT UK and The Body Shop campaigning for guardianship
Thanks to all of you who signed the ECPAT UK/The Body Shop petition calling for guardianship for child victims of trafficking. (Read the ECPAT UK Briefing on Guardianship) We are pleased to announce we have gathered an amazing 735,889 signatures in the UK and on 12th May we gathered a large group of supporters, including celebrity campaign supporter Martine McCutcheon and handed this petition over to 10 Downing Street.
Parliamentarians against Human Trafficking
A European project to establish a network of parliamentarians working to prevent human trafficking
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ECPAT UK welcomes the Government’s decision to ask the Children’s Commissioner for England to conduct a review of how child victims of trafficking are looked after when they are rescued in the UK.
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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 Exchange, in The Hague, Netherlands. The event was hosted…
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…
ECPATUK: 'Men plied girls with drink and drugs for sex' via @BBC http://t.co/cXDAUMnz #childsexualexploitation #childtrafficking #ecpatuk
ECPATUK: 'Thief turns himself in after finding child abuse images on stolen phone' http://t.co/d0K07Blo #childabuseimages
ECPATUK: 'Thief turns himself in after finding child abuse images on stolen phone' http://t.co/d0K07Blo #childabuseimages
ECPATUK: 'Men plied girls with drink and drugs for sex' via @BBC http://t.co/cXDAUMnz #childsexualexploitation #childtrafficking #ecpatuk
ECPATUK: Court hears how sex gang targeted girls (Rochdale) via @asianimage http://t.co/557HWbY3 #trafficking #sexualexploitation #ecpatuk
ECPATUK: ECPAT UK blog on @Anya17: 'Contemporary opera on sex trafficking will help to raise awareness' http://t.co/e5wue6mu #trafficking #anya17
ECPATUK: @chiparla Thanks for the link!