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UK - Anti-Trafficking Alliance
ONLINE GAME: http://www.thesohogame.com/
FILM SITE: http://www.behind-the-smile.com/index.html
Anti-Trafficking
Alliance launches online game and video to educate men about sex
trafficking
Did you
know that if you pay for sex with a woman, it’s now increasingly likely she’s
been trafficked and you could be prosecuted?
Sex
trafficking is a horrific form of modern-day slavery that traumatises victims
and has devastating consequences:
“Once
she’s here the first thing that will happen is she’ll get a smack in the face,
passport will go, and then typically if you want to break someone you rape
them, you rape them a lot. What happens to her when you go? How many more men?
How many days? How many weeks? How many years? What happens to her at the end?
Does anyone really want to have sex with someone who actually hates you? Who is
actually being forced at the threat of serious violence to her or her family to
do that? I can’t see anyone wanting to do that if the knew about it.”
Richard
Bartman, Human Rights Lawyer
It is very
difficult to assess the number of women who are trafficked into the country for
sexual exploitation because of the hidden nature of this criminal trade, but
the
The
Anti-Trafficking Alliance believes that you can’t end sex trafficking without
addressing the demand to exploit women through prostitution. It has produced an
interactive, online game (www.thesohogame.com) and a short, 7 minute
film, ‘Behind the Smile’ (www.behind-the-smile.com) to educate men about
the risks to themselves and others of paying for sex.
The ATA is
encouraging organisations that work with young men and the media to raise
awareness about this issue by promoting these resources as widely as possible.
“If
men stopped paying for sex, if they understood and stopped there would be no
trafficking, there would be no demand for girls, there would be no money in it.
“
Natalia, Russian survivor or trafficking
Background
Information
The
Anti-Trafficking Alliance is a registered
What can
people do to stop this?
· If you are a man who is about to sleep
with a woman working in prostitution, think twice! She may be trafficked and
you could be charged with rape. If you have recently bought sex and suspect
that the woman may have been trafficked, report it – call the Crime Stoppers
number on 0800 555 111.
· Play the game, watch the video and share
these with your friends.
· Speak out against sex trafficking.
· Support the work of the ATA.
For further
information, testimony from trafficked women and copies of the DVD, please
contact Ceri Hayes, Media Spokesperson, the Anti-Trafficking Alliance: ceri@atalliance.org.uk
or tel: 07773 987 607.
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