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Mader arrested
Surrey resident taken into custory at Vancouver International Airport
CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, November 02, 2007
Orville Frank Mader, a Surrey resident wanted for alleged sex crimes against a young boy in Thailand is in police custody in British Columbia, CBC reported.
Mader, 54, was arrested Thursday at Vancouver International Airport, where he was arriving from Thailand.
The RCMP’s Integrated Child Exploitation Team brought Mader to Surrey. He’s expected to make a court appearance in Surrey Friday.
Mader is accused of abusing an eight-year-old boy. An arrest warrant was issued in Thailand on Wednesday.
Mader is the second Canadian arrested in recent weeks for alleged sex crimes overseas.
Christopher Paul Neil, 32, of Maple Ridge, was arrested in Thailand in October after an international manhunt.
Police say images of Neil abusing young boys in were digitally altered to mask his identity, but were worked on by computer experts to identify the suspect. He has denied the charges.
SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press
October 19, 2007 at 5:39 AM EDT
Link to the original article on the Globe and Mail
Bangkok, Thailand — A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing boys was arrested in rural Thailand on Friday after an international manhunt that relied on digitally unscrambled photos and tips from the public.
“Bingo! We’ve got him,” said police Major-General Wimol Powintaras.
Handcuffed, with a blue shirt draped over his head, 32-year-old Christopher Paul Neil from Maple Ridge, B.C., did not comment to reporters as officers led him into the national police headquarters in Bangkok, where a news conference was held later in the day.
Mr. Neil was found in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, where police said he had been hiding in the town of a Thai friend believed to have arranged some of his alleged sexual liaisons with boys.
He was to be extradited to Canada after being prosecuted in Thailand, said police spokesman Pongsapat Pongjaren.
Canada — which can prosecute its citizens for child sex crimes committed abroad, but has rarely done so — has not said if it plans to seek Neil’s extradition.
“We are aware an arrest has been made and we will offer consular services as necessary,” a spokesman for the Canadian embassy in Bangkok said.
Cambodia and Vietnam might also want to question him. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Jackie Reed
English teacher for A.E.E’s Academic Program
June-July 2007
When I went to Cambodia to volunteer I had no idea what to expect. I had never travelled overseas before, least of all to a developing nation. When I arrived in Phnom Penh airport I was excited and nervous at the same time. As my tuk-tuk (moto-taxi) veered in and out of the chaotic traffic I held my breath. The sites, sounds and smells of the city would put anyone into an immediate state of displacement and at a loss for words. Brightly robed monks weaved in and through market crowds collecting alms, impoverished, hungry children begged for money, while disfigured men and women hawk their wears for 50 cents a piece.
The heat of the Cambodian sun makes your body drip constantly with sweat. And as the flies buzzed in my ears, I began to worry that this might not be the trip of a lifetime after all.
On my first day working at A.E.E’s Drop-in Centre in Toul Kork, I was assigned the task of picking up the school children who lived in a nearby slum. I love children. My daughter who is 6 years old, the same age as some of our children waited for me back home in Canada, cherished and spoiled by her doting grandparents.
When I arrived at the slum, a shudder coursed through my veins. There they were: a dozen children, dirty, smelly, all of whom eagerly await for their ride to school. The children live in broken homes, floorboards gaping, garbage and sewage spilling out from under and surrounding their shacks. But despite their wretched surrounding, there were smiles, there were hugs, and never have I seen such genuine hope and happiness from a group of children.
Through the next five weeks working as an English teacher for A.E.E’s Academic Bridge Program, I had the chance to learn more about these children. It was a privilege to learn about each child’s unique aspirations, talents, and their dreams for a better future. I learned too, the one thing that held them all in common: I learned that they were all bandaged into the life sucking cycle of poverty from which they were born. By the end of my stay in Cambodia, I realized that these children will never leave my heart. Read the rest of this entry »
A three part series brought to you by Action to End Exploitation, offering perspectives from a variety of experts in the field of human trafficking.
Speakers will draw from a vast range of personal and professional experiences as they attempt to unravel the complex phenomenon of the modern global sex slave trade. 
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
@ Hart House, U of T – St. George Campus
7-9 PM
PWYC Event
Featuring:
Loly Rico, Canadian Council for Refugees, Canada
Irena Soltys, Stop the Trafficking Coalition Canada
Benjamin Santamaria, Project Desert Roses
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
@ The Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73 Harbord Street, Toronto)
7- 9 PM
PWYC Event
Featuring:
Angela Miles, OSIE, University of Toronto
Clara Ho, Legal Director, METRAC
John Fenn, Streetlights Support Services
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
@ The Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto)
7-9 PM
Film Screening of “Anonymously Yours”
“[A clandestine film] shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking. The film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption”.
Showtime: Sat Sept 22 - 7pm & Sat Sept 29 - 4pm
Location: 296 Brunswick Avenue (2nd Floor), Toronto Ontario
Phone: 647-282-3627
An excerpt from the Brunswick theatre’s website.
TRADING WOMEN: Human Trafficking and the Global Sex Trade
Filmed in Burma, China, Laos, and Thailand, this is the first film to follow the trade in women in all its complexity and to consider the impact of this ‘far away’ problem on the global community.
Narrated by Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie, Trading Women follows the trade of women in all its complexity, entering the worlds of brothel owners, trafficked girls, voluntary sex-workers, corrupt police and anxious politicians.
The film also explores the international community’s response to the issue. Trading Women is the first film to demonstrate to viewers the relationship of the trade in drugs to the trade of women. The film dispels common beliefs about the sex trade, such as: “The problem is the parents - it’s part of their culture to sell their daughters;” “The sex trade exists because of Western sex tours;” and “They sell their girls for TV’s.”
BANGKOK GIRL
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
repeating Tuesday May 7 at 10 pm PT & Saturday May 12 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsword
From CBC’s Website:
Bangkok Girl is a ‘remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.’
Producer/Director Jordan Clark enters a world with various levels of prostitution — from basic bargirls, who merely pour you a drink, money for sex relationships, to hooking on both sides of the gender line.
The documentary provides a glimpse of Thailand’s sex tourism told through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla. Working in the bars since the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body for sex, a remarkable discovery, given her surroundings that sadly cannot last. En route to the film’s startling conclusion, you are given a true understanding of why and how she ended up in her current environment and wonder if she will ever escape.
The introduction of ‘falangs’, or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed their city, their economy, their lives, and their desires. This film is a daring and unabashed look at ourselves, through the eyes of one girl, in an honest, morally gripping story, which challenges the worldwide, accepted practice of sex tourism.
Bangkok Girl was produced by High Banks Entertainment Ltd. (Victoria, B.C.) in association with CBC Newsworld.
From The Associated Press
5/4/2007 3:51:41 PM
ATLANTA (AP) — When he was arrested after getting off a flight at a New York airport in 2004, Gainesville anesthesiologist Gregory Kapordelis was charged with traveling to Russia to have sex with young boys.
The government used a relatively new law at the time that makes it possible for U.S. citizens who molest children abroad to be prosecuted for the crime in federal court at home. Read the rest of this entry »
CITIZENShift is an interactive platform where you can explore social issues through: films, photography, articles, blogs and podcasts.
The “Trafficking in Humanity” section of the website offers comprehensive lists of podcasts, films, literature on human trafficking and related issues. To visit this section of CITIZENShift’s website, click here.
On CITIZENShift, you can listen to an audio documentary produced by Outervoices.org, about Cambodian women who have survived sex trafficking and those who have helped them.
To listen to part one, click here.
To listen to part two, click here.
To listen to part three, click here.
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