TW: this article contains discussions of paedophilia and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Author’s note regarding images used: I went back and forth on how to show the inappropriateness of Brima Models without further exploiting the children involved or…
The Truth About Human Trafficking in Hotels | The Sex Slave in Room 207
If I told you to picture where victims of sex trafficking were abused, what would you say? Squalid apartment buildings perhaps, or rat-infested brothels in Cambodia. Maybe you’d picture a young woman on the streets in the United States, forced…
Female Genital Mutilation in the UK – Why it’s Our Problem
This article was originally posted on January 5 2017. It was last updated on October 30 2019. ‘Genital mutilation of girls is sometimes referred to as “circumcision.” Implicitly, this likens it to male circumcision. If male circumcision meant removing the…
Signs of Human Trafficking in Nail Salons (and What You Can Do to Help)
While nail treatments used to be expensive, the past few years have seen a dramatic increase in budget nail salons, often Vietnamese-owned, with rock bottom prices and no appointments necessary. In fact, in 2016, there were more beauty and grooming…
Sa-Pune – Meet the Team Helping to Empower Women and Children in Kosovo!
As a white, working class woman from the UK, I’ve had it pretty easy. I’ve always had a roof over my head, food on the table and money in the bank. It’s never been difficult for me to have access…
Meeting a Bosnian War Hero
As we drove through the streets of Sarajevo, taking in the crumbling buildings and apartment blocks riddled with bullet holes, Al began to open up about why he’d decided to become a soldier during the Bosnian war. “I was walking…
