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Invite to Counter-Trafficking Networking Event

World Hope South-Africa is hosting a counter-trafficking networking event on 8 December 2010.

The aim of this event is:
o To facilitate networking between key counter-trafficking role-players;
o And to share our resources, knowledge and experience in the field of counter trafficking work with you.

George Bizos to open MMA Photography Exhibition

CHILD PROTECTION & TRAFFICKING: Is the Media telling the right(s)story?

Photography Exhibition opening with guest speaker GEORGE BIZOS

Through the lens - Child Protection and Human Trafficking

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) invites you to attend the opening of their photography exhibition entitled “Child Protection & Trafficking: Is the Media telling the right(s) story?”

Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill
Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Arrival time - 17:30 to 18:00

Photography by documentary photographer and trafficking expert Melanie Hamman, alongside a selection of work produced by learner photographers of Umuzi Photo Club and curated by MMA’s child Media Monitors.

Website to highlight truth in trafficking

Bizcommunity.com reports on MMA’s efforts to lift the veil on human trafficking in South Africa.

So you think you know about human trafficking?

Are these women and girls victims of human trafficking?

A. A 20 year old Eastern European woman working as a sex worker in Johannesburg during the World Cup
B. A 15 year old domestic worker from Zimbabwe, sent to work in Cape Town to earn money for her family back home
C. A 19 year old who follows her boyfriend to Durban, where he asks her to sleep with friends to earn money for rent or drugs
D. A 14 year old girl who is told she must marry as her family need the lobola

Read more and find out…

Human Trafficking – Is the media telling the right(s) story?

Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) is launching a new website to look at issues of child safety and human trafficking.

MMA is working with children, media, NGOs and other interested and involved parties to create an environment in which myths about human trafficking are unpacked and a more comprehensive picture emerges of modern slavery in South Africa, and what we can do to stop it.

Children Talk Back!

In South Africa’s first children’s press conference the media hear a fresh critical perspective from young people eager to have their voices heard

Keep the focus on human trafficking – a call from the private sector

A private sector company has joined in calls warning the media against turning its back on human trafficking and child protection.

Salvation Army SA says there’s plenty of work still to do in combating human trafficking

The Salvation Army says their work in combating human trafficking and raising awareness around human trafficking will continue long after the World Cup.

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