Greenbelt 2008 22 - 25 August
Meet the team at the g-source pavilion & hear Angela Deavall speak on Money Power and Sex Trafficking at the g-stage on Saturday 16.45h & Monday 13.00h
The Greenbelt Festival is held at Cheltenham Racecourse and full details including ticket prices are here: www.greenbelt.org.uk
The Demand Conference January 2008
Following the highly successful Tackling Demand Conference, of January 2008, held by CHASTE in London and addressed by Undersecretary of State Vernon Coaker amongst a panoply of speakers – we are pleased to announce the ITN expose of demand for sex trafficked women into the UK – following seven months of investigation and conversations with NGOs including CHASTE into the background and the issues to be addressed in this breakthrough filmed report using secret cameras and posing as UK pimps Eu-rotica
Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday in the main News at Ten bulletin
Part one
The face of prostitution in the UK has changed dramatically with any estimated 25,000 sex slaves now forced to work in British brothels. Supply is meeting demand with increasing numbers of men looking for cheap often unprotected sex with prostitutes, a service mainly offered by eastern European girls, the most likely victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. Any estimated 2000 women and children are trafficked in to the UK every year for the sex trade, often these victims are from countries such as Romania where girls as young as 14 are being prostituted by local traffickers and sold on to foreign gangs.
a bogus brothel is established in Manchester to expose the demand among British men for cheap unprotected sex with eastern European prostitutes and then travel to Romania posing as British brothel owners to uncover the countries human market that supplies hundreds of girls to real brothels in the UK.
Part two
Posing as British brothel owners ITN journalists uncover the sex slavery trade in Romania and purchase a 14 year old girl to rescue her from local traffickers, could the young slaves life be about to change forever?
Part three
In the final part of the series the ITN infiltrate the Czech underworld to expose the men who traffic young girls to British brothels. In a seven month operation Chris creates his cover as the owner of EU-rotica, a network of brothels in the UK. Chris's business is vetted by a number of gangs and finally he wins their trust for a series of meetings that unveil a shocking trade in young girls who are rented out to British brothels like hire cars. Some of the girls as young as 17 have already been forced to work in dozens of countries including the UK. Nick Kinsella of the UK human traffic centre says, "ITN has exposed the most shocking evidence I have seen that girls are not only sold but are rented out for 3 months at a time to brothels across Europe. They are owned like animals, and treated like cattle. This proves that trafficking is just as sophisticated and organised as we feared"
Update on the Demand Conference
Did you miss the groundbreaking Demand Conference? Click on the links below to download audio clips from some of our keys speakers.
Introduction by Rev. Dr. Carrie Pemberton, CEO of CHASTE
Not for Sale Iniative by Carrie Pemberton
The Swedish Experience by Agneta Borg
The Government Perspective by Fiona MacTaggart MP
Changing Attitudes by Vernon Coaker, Under Secretary of State for Crime Reduction
New Resource: Book Launch of 'The Real Scandal of Sex Trafficking'
CHASTE News and Press Releases
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Tackling Demand
The demand for prostitution directly impacts upon the supply of people trafficked into the sex industry. CHASTE is working with CARE to see the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill amended to address this. More...
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Previous Events:
Love's Not for Sale Tour
CHASTE's Nationwide Autumn Tour: Love's Not for Sale
14th-20th November 2007
Featured Jonathan Aitken, Helen J Hicks singer-songwriter and Carrie Pemberton
- Birmingham: Birmingham Cathedral, 14th November 2007
- Cambridge: Great St Mary's, Cambridge, 15th November 2007
- Leeds: St Geoge's Leeds, 16th November 2007
- Edinburgh: St George's West, 20th November 2007
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Autumn 2007 Not for Sale Book Launch
Not for Sale: Raising Awareness, Ending Exploitation
September 2007, Inspire, Methodist Publishing House (MPH)
£12.99 plus £1.50 P&P Click here for more information and to order online
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Not for Sale Theatre Tour, July-August 2007 - The Camden People's Theatre, London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Commissioned by CHASTE this powerful and compelling drama explores the stark reality of the dark world of sex trafficking through physical theatre, puppetry and honest performances. The Not for Sale tour received excellent reviews including from The Scotsman, and the energy generated among audiences for positive change has been tremendous in both London and Edinburgh.
See Press Releases 30.08.7 and 24.08.07 (below) to find out more about Freefall Theatre's Not for Sale.
FInd out more about Freefall Theatre
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Love's Not for Sale - May 2007 SONG RELEASE - Helen J. Hicks
Talented singer/songwriter Helen J Hicks teamed up with CHASTE for Not for Sale Sunday's London event in front of St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Square, Sermon Lane, on the afternoon of Sunday 20th May.
Details: Music including live performance by Helen J Hicks of new song, Love's Not for Sale, spoken word and a talk by Rev Dr Carrie Pemberton, CEO of CHASTE about the modern-day slavery of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Thank you to those who came to this event to support Not for Sale Sunday! Find out more about the great new song Love's Not for Sale (see lyrics) See our press release for this event.
Why not buy this great new single Love's Not for Sale from iTunes or direct from Helen J Hicks at www.helenjhicks.com
A percentage of the profits will go to help further the work of CHASTE.
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Find out more about events
To find out more about events which have taken place across the country including fundraising events, please see our Fundraising pages and our Church companions pages if you would like to see your church involved in supporting our work.
CHASTE Press Releases
- Pentameter 2. CHASTE urges Home Secretary to consider Swedish Legislation, 04.10.07
- Not for Sale: Love's Not for Sale Tour. 28.09.07
- Not for Sale: Raising Awareness, Ending Exploitation - An Anthology
- Not for Sale: A Cultural Shift, 5.09.07
- Freefalls Theatre's Not for Sale, 30.08.07
- Review of Freefall Theatre's Not for Sale Production - The Scotsman, 24.08.07
- Fact Finding Visit from Albania, 26.06.07
- New Song Release - Love's' Not for Sale, Helen J Hicks, 26.06.07
- Not for Sale Sunday London - 20.05.07
- Government Signature to the European Convention on Action against Trafficking 2005 - 23.03.07
- Not for Sale Sunday -Alert your Church May 20th 2007
- CHASTE Celebrates Government Announcement of Signing European Convention - 22.01.07
- Safe Housing for Women who have been Trafficked for Sexual Exploitation
Wider News
Please see the News Archive for a range of articles in the public domain which have something to say to the issue of trafficking for sexual exploitation.