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Dr Barbara Kastelein's avatar

Thank you Ioan! I have been wanting to know this background for years (the when it started and why), how true / untrue the numbers arelves, cartoons, especially. Clearly told, as always! A friend and former colleague worked with trafficked women for years through the British criminal justice system and joined forces on prevention of human trafficking (for slavery, sexual and domestic) of young women from the Caribbean and West Africa in particular. Her team made videos that were shown strategically (in Jamaica, I believe, can check), supported by the government there and numbers of trafficked women entering the UK went down dramatically. Do you think it's worth trying to facilitate some cross-cultural sharing of experience? (the videos, animations, are beautifully done, short, simple and very moving -- can pass links on). Education and information on this topic for prevention are very close to my heart (very struck by your last photo, urging women to realise the padrote will create -- will already have created -- and use fear, and to resist this ... it's so subtle, and bears many similarities to the build-up of domestic violence / intimate partner abuse and coercive control which doesn't end up in trafficking and prostitution but is worldwide, with murders of women by partners and family increasing, according to the last UN stats I had access to, and is surely part of the same phenomenon)

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We Talk You Listen wtyl.live's avatar

Excellent work my friend. Wish there were a thousand more guys just like you. As a 40 year addiciton survivor I salute you Sir!!!

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