UPDATE: We would like to thank everyone who came out to our musical benefit at the Press Club. The evening was a success! We look forward to seeing you at our next event!

Come out to the Press Club on Thursday, April 12th to support Action to End Exploitation. The music starts at 7pm until close. All proceeds go to towards Action to End Exploitation and our projects overseas.

Click here for directions. If you have any other questions, please email us at info@endexploitation.org.

National Multi Cultural Institute has created a human trafficking search portal as a service to individuals and organizations working to eliminate human trafficking. Click on the visual links under “human trafficking t.v” to get download clips related to human trafficking from various organizations working in the field. Check out the portal…

For those with access to BBC2 television, “Slave Children”, a documentary about the trafficking of children by Rageh Omaar will be shown March 26th at 2100 BST. The documentary follows the story of five children from three continents. Below is an excerpt from the BBC website about Ali, a boy whose story is featured in the documentary.

Six-year-old Ali was picked up by Saudi authorities for begging on the streets of Jeddah.

He was smuggled into Saudi Arabia from Yemen in order to beg.

Ali says he ended up begging after physical abuse involving metal wire attacks on his back. He says he was beaten up when he said he did not want to beg all day.

Ali is one of thousands of Yemeni children sold to gangs and forced to beg each year.

These children are often sold by families who are duped into believing their offspring will get a better life.

Many of the children who are smuggled over the Saudi/Yemen border are beaten and sometimes even mutilated to become better, more effective beggars.

It is hard to be exact about figures, but in 2005 the Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs acknowledged that about 300 children were crossing the border every month.

Click here to read more on the BBC website….

Information available on the internet can sometimes be overwhelming. As such, from time to time, I will be posting links and resources related to human trafficking and sexual exploitation that I’ve found helpful or interesting.

To start of, here is a radio documentary from the BBC about paedophiles in Goa, India.

The following is an introduction to the documentary from BBC’s website:

Thousands of tourists visit the Indian state of Goa’s beautiful beaches every year, but in this BBC investigation Allan Urry discovers a darker side to beach life in a tropical paradise.

Foreigners are travelling to Goa to sexually abuse children, and the local authorities are turning their back on the problem.

Allan travels to Goa to speak to charities, NGOs and government ministers and finds out that boys and girls as young as ten are indeed being made available for sex to foreign tourists.

As tourism in Goa grows bigger and bigger, will this problem get worse and worse?