Last month, the UK-based anti-trafficking organisation Unchosen held a conference at Nottingham University. The Conference had a series of brief addresses from a wide variety of people working against all forms of Modern Slavery. Various priorities were highlighted by the speakers. Among these were the importance of working to see the law enforced because of […]

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Students of the University of Johannesburg recently won a major award for a campaign which they ran to create awareness about human trafficking. Two lecturers involved in the project, Anna Oksiutycz and Caroline Azionya, share how student involvement brought the human trafficking campaign to life. The campaign, ‘#TraffickingIsReal’, was a partnership between the University of […]

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The Light House Cinema in Dublin showed a special screening last night of a film examining the reality of sex trafficking in South America. “Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas”, a documentary from Spanish filmmaker Mabel Lozano, tells the stories of women and girls from various countries in South America who were trafficked for sexual exploitation within […]

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Following President Trump’s announcement that America will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord – a ground-breaking international agreement of 195 countries to limit the global temperature rise this century to 2 degrees Celsius – dozens of protesters gathered at the US embassy in Dublin to denounce this move. They were led by the Green Party […]

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