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Sarah Hosts Meeting to Discuss Child Exploitation
March 9, 2009 12:00 PM
Sarah Ludford at the meeting of the 21st Century Network.
Sarah hosted a meeting and gave a talk for the 21st Century Network, organization set up to discuss some of the major issues of the 21st century using social networks to reach a new audience of concerned people, on the subject of child trafficking and abuse.
Also speaking were Catherine Turner of Anti-Slavery International; Tahirih Danesh, a human rights researcher and documenter who specialises in the case of minorities in Iran; Dragan Nastic, the Parliamentary Officer for UNICEF; and Paul Massey, a lawyer who has worked with victims of online grooming.
Sarah said: "This is a topic I have campaigned on throughout my 10 years in the European Parliament. While the EU has made quite a lot of progress, through common laws on criminalisation and cross-border police cooperation, in efforts to combat the appalling trafficking and child sex abuse which tragically ruins far too may young lives, there is still a long way to go. In particular, I want to see both a major shift in resources into tackling these forms of international crime and a sea-change in the way trafficking victims are treated, so they are truly cared for as exploited and vulnerable people, not as 'illegal immigrants'. I hope this event will get the 21st Century Network's action group on child trafficking off to a good start."
Read more about the 21st Century Network: http://21st-centurynetwork.com/
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