Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Where: University of North Carolina at Pembroke; Room 221 in Old Main Building

Presentation Description:

This dialogue will introduce participants to domestic minor sex trafficking through viewing video excerpts, providing insight into survivor experiences, identifying methods of coercion, and discussing indicators that someone may be held in slavery in your community.

Time: 11am – Assemble | Walk begins at 12:00pm

Where: The Lumbee Tribal Building, Highway 711 West, Pembroke, NC

Help to promote awareness of the different forms of child abuse by attending the EDNA Awareness Walk inPembroke, NC in remembrance of 3-year-old Edna Trinity Mazell Hunt.  The awareness color for Child Abuse is “Any Color Blue”.

For more information, please see the attached flyer.

Time: 8:00am-3:30pm

Where: University of North Carolina at Pembroke; Chavis University Annex

The Department of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke is presenting the 20th Annual Social Work Symposium titled “Future Directions in Social Work.  Social Work professionals can earn up to 7.0 contact hours.  Session topics include “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking” and “Working with Traumatized Children”.  For more registration information please contact the UNCP Department of Social Work at 910-775-4090  or 910-775-4090.

“Human trafficking between the U.S. and Mexico is on the rise as more young women are kidnapped or lured to the border area with promises of a better life but who find themselves locked away in an underground world of sexual slavery, according to experts gathered Thursday in Chula Vista.”

Link: www.utsandiego.com/human-trafficking-on-the-rise-in-border-region

“Washingtonstate lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would require classified-advertising companies to attempt to verify the age of escorts listed in sex-related postings.”

Link: www.seattlepi.com/WA-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-sale-of-underage-sex-ads

“Ellis’ legislation, House Bill 2016, would make the sex trafficking of minors in Pennsylvaniaa first-degree felony. It’s now only a third-degree felony to exploit a child to sex trafficking in the state. It also states that a parent who subjects a minor to commercial sex purposes would be charged with a first-degree felony.”

Link: www.pittsburghlive.com

“CHICAGO – A federal jury today convicted Alex Campbell, 45, a northwest Chicago suburban massage parlor owner, of various federal crimes including sex-trafficking, forced labor, harboring illegal aliens, confiscating passports to further forced labor and extortion involving four foreign women whom he mentally and physically abused while forcing them to work for him between July 2008 and January 2010.”

Link: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/January/12-crt-134.html

“Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement.”

Link: thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/chocolates-child-slaves

“WASHINGTON, January 17, 2011— Human trafficking often involves prostitution and forced labor of victims. But in Uganda, traffickers buy and sell children against their will to use their genitals, heads, and blood for ritual sacrifice.”

Link: communities.washingtontimes.com/worst-form-human-trafficking

“India Partners is helping with funding, volunteers, and training. Hample says their focus right now is on the children of the prostitutes in the red-light district. “They grow up in these environments where they grow up to be prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and drug dealers. So, we try to get them out of that environment and get them into a place where they can read and write.” They can learn about Jesus.”

Link: www.mnnonline.org