TRAFFICKING
'WOMEN AND TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION'
The Pierian Centre, Saturday 17th January, 12 - 4.30
Free. Space is limited. Early registration is advised.
This half day conference is organised by Bristol Fawcett. It is an opportunity to:
- find out what is known locally about trafficking for sexual exploitation
and how women are involved;
- hear about the work of local and national researchers and activists;
- decide how you can support this work.
To see further details download the programme here.
The event is supported by the National Alliance of Women's Organisations (NAWO)
in partnership with the United Nations, who have consulted widely with women through
their special reporter ('rapporteur') on violence against women.
100 organisations from all over Europe participated in three days of consultation in London in 2007 with Professor Yakin Erturk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and NAWO has hosted a range of follow-up meetings to the consultation. Two more of these UNSRVAW follow-up meetings have now been held – one in Norfolk and the University of East Anglia in October and another at the University of Hull in November with the Student’s Union. This was part of their liberation work and included speakers from Respect, the male-led group working to change men’s behaviour who also attended the Consultation, the police and a speaker from the Leonard Cheshire Foundation as well as Annette Lawson for NAWO. The event in Bristol is the third UNSRVAW follow-up meeting.
To register please email trafficking@bristolfawcett.org.uk with your contact details.
The aims of Bristol Fawcett's Trafficking subgroup are:
• To highlight the links between international poverty and trafficking
• To analyse the diverse forms of trafficking,
• To break the link between immigration control and trafficking
• To highlight national trafficking (within the UK)
• To highlight the need for a better support network for victims of trafficking
• Since ECAT was ratified (17/01/08), to encourage Bristol City Council to sign the Council of Europe declaration on the fight against trafficking in human beings. We achieved this: see below.
There is a petition, open until 9th May 2009, to bring about legislation to give charities assisting victims of human trafficking seized assets of the traffickers - sign it here.
In February 2008 members of the subgroup, with Bristol Women's Forum, drafted a letter to Bristol City Council's Leader, Chief Executive and Mayor calling for Bristol to sign the declaration. Bristol became the first city in the UK to sign up to the declaration on 29th April 2008 during a day-long seminar organised by Anti-Slavery. Members of Bristol Fawcett's anti-trafficking campaign group were present to sign the declaration, and to contribute to the development of Bristol's strategy for combating trafficking.
Dr Geetanjali Gangoli signs the Declaration for Bristol FawcettWe ran a successful event, which received coverage from Bristol Evening Post, at the Cube Cinema on 22nd April 2008 to raise funds and awareness about trafficking - click here to download the flyer. The film Lilya 4-Ever was screened, with an introduction and discussion by Dr Christien Van den Anker and Professor Jane Arthurs of the University of the West of England.
We have published a short information sheet on Trafficking, available here
In 2006-7 Bristol Fawcett ran an information gathering exercise around issues of trafficking. Click here for a summary of the results.
To view Bristol University's recent report for the Home Office on forced marriage, click here
To view the UK's action plan on trafficking, click here
To find out more about Stop the Traffik's international campaign, click here
View the Events page for details of upcoming events.
If you would like to receive information about our work or events connected with human trafficking, please join our contacts database here. If you would like to be a part of our small strategic subgroup on human trafficking, please email trafficking@bristolfawcett.org.uk for more details.