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.
Care for child victims of trafficking set to be reviewed
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.
Director of ECPAT UK, Christine Beddoe, said: “The call for a system of guardianship for child victims of trafficking has been an integral part of ECPAT UK’s campaigning for more than four years.
“ECPAT UK looks forward to working with the Children’s Commissioner to ensure that there is an independent, thorough review of the care and support provided to child victims of trafficking, one that the Government ensures is adequately resourced. Our goal remains to ensure that child victims of trafficking are provided with all the support that they need and deserve to recover from the trauma of their experiences, and to help rebuild their lives.
“It is pleasing to see that the Government has requested that the Department for Education calls for the review as opposed to the Home Office. For too long child trafficking has been seen as an immigration issue, rather than one of child protection. We hope that this development represents a willingness by the Government to put children’s rights at the heart of its work to support child victims of trafficking."
Leaflets to give child victims of trafficking advice on compensation
As a champion of children’s rights, ECPAT UK is working to raise awareness on compensating victims of trafficking. We have recognised that there is limited awareness among children and people working with them of the right to claim compensation. Therefore, in a joint venture, ECPAT UK have teamed up with the international law firm Hogan Lovells to promote knowledge of children’s rights by developing an information leaflet for distribution, ‘Compensating Victims of Serious Crime’.
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: Contemporary opera on sex trafficking will help to raise awareness
By Chloe Setter, ECPAT UK Information Officer
Live near Manchester or Liverpool? If you do, you should certainly consider buying tickets to see Anya17 – an opera about sex trafficking into the UK.
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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.
Director…
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!