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Human Trafficking and Ritual Abuse-Torture
 

Ritual Abuse-Torture the most unspoken face of human trafficking

Jeanne speaking in Washington at the National Press Club September 29, 2004

Ritual Abuse-Torture Identifying a Crime of Horror

La violence et la torture rituelle

Ritual Abuse Torturers: Joining the Horde of Ancient Contemporary Enslavers and Human Traffickers

 Ritual Abuse-Torturers: The ‘Invisible’ Abusers, ‘Non-State Actor’ Torturers, and Human Traffickers

Violence and Global Sex Trade Flyer for the University of Toronto, sponsored by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.

 
 
Other Writings

Press release for Australian Embassy November 4, 2004

 

Links

1. Childtrafficking.com Digital Library - Comprehensive library of global resources about child trafficking.  

 

2. Polaris Project-- Combatting Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery - Polaris Project is a multicultural grassroots non-profit agency combating sex trafficking and modern-day slavery. We work everyday with women in the sex industry who have endured violence from their traffickers, including psychological abuse, beatings, death threats, and sexual assault.

 

Based in the United States and Japan, our multicultural staff work closely with survivors and community members to identify victims, provide services, conduct advocacy and technical trainings, and raise awareness. Also have on-line store to purchase cards and artwork made by survivors of trafficking.
 


3. CyberTip.ca - Cybertip.ca is Canada's National Tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. It is a centralized web portal for receiving and addressing reports from the public regarding child pornography, luring, child sex tourism, and children who are exploited through prostitution. Cybertip.ca also provides the public with information, referrals and other resources to help Canadians keep their children safe while on the Internet.

 

4. Virtual Global TaskForce - The Virtual Global Taskforce is a partnership of international law enforcement agencies. It is currently chaired by the UK National Crime Squad and comprises the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the US Department of Homeland Security and Interpol.

 

5. Angel Coalition - The Angel Coalition TVAC and its network of 9 regional safe house partners currently functions as the hub of rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation activities for Russian trafficking victims - a complex operation requiring close liaisons with Russian and international government agencies, law enforcement and NGOs focusing on all aspects of counter-trafficking.

 

6. MiraMed Institute - In early 1998, becoming aware of the growing and widespread practice of trafficking orphanage girls into sexual slavery overseas, MiraMed developed a proposal to begin an anti-sexual trafficking education campaign for highest risk girls in the rural regions of the Russian Federation . During the 1998 UNIFEM Violence Against Women Trust Fund funded program, MiraMed Institute formalized partnerships with over 100 Russian Federation NGO's who participated in all of the following programs. Also in 1998, MiraMed Institute was recognized for its work in Russia by the United Nations and was granted SPECIAL Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the UN.

 

The mission of the Virtual Global Taskforce is:

  • to make the Internet a safer place;
  • to identify, locate and help children at risk; and
  • to hold perpetrators appropriately to account.

    Songs

    1. Holocaust  Written and Performed by Jeanette Westbrook
                      Produced by Andy Westbrook  

    2. Stop Human Trafficking Written and Performed by Peter Love

     photo taken by Debbie Camacho Love

     Jeanne, Peter & Linda

     after presenting on Human Trafficking
     to American News Women's Club
    Washington DC, September 29, 2004 

     

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