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• Canada: The ECPAT group member Beyond Borders has received over Canadian $250,000 as of late February. The significant funds raised in Canada have allowed Beyond Borders to create for the first time ever two unique initiatives: Beyond Borders – Anita Roddick Fund for Sexually Trafficked Children and the Man‐to‐Man Campaign. Recently created, the Beyond Borders – Anita Roddick Fund will provide grants to child survivors of trafficking and the Man‐to‐Man campaign is focusing on the demand side of commercial sexual exploitation and speaks directly to men, imploring them to take action on the issue. Funds will also be used to support Beyond Borders to establish a presence in Quebec and other awareness raising activities; • Estonia: Tartu Child Support Centre will use the 1,700 Euros raised from the campaign for anti‐child sex tourism activities such as the EU “Offenders Beware” project and participation at the tourism fair for advocacy with the tourism industry and awareness raising with the general public; • Germany: As of January 2010, The Body Shop has transferred 77,760 Euros to ECPAT Germany as the funds raised. ECPAT Germany will utilise the funds towards multiple training workshop on strengthening identification and support for trafficked children for stakeholders (law enforcement, judiciary officials, social and youth welfare, asylum institutions, counselling centres for sexual abuse and trafficking, street children facilities etc). In addition, funds will be used towards work to advocate for the establishment of a national reporting system for child trafficking in Germany; • Hong Kong: With US$ 10,000 received from TBS Hong Kong, ECPAT International has carried out primary research of secondary data and produced a Hong Kong Monitoring Report on the Status of Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Agenda for Action) 6 which provides information on the specific situation and an assessment of the efforts made, and that are still needed, to protect children from sexual exploitation and child trafficking. This cutting edge research report is based on the compilation of secondary data from verifiable and reputable sources and serves as a key advocacy document for relevant stakeholders and policy makers to promote more concerted action against sexual exploitation of children in the territory; • Singapore: ECPAT International together with The Body Shop, UNIFEM and HOME is conducting research on child trafficking for sexual purposes in Singapore with US$28,000 funds raised in the city state. The final draft of the literature review of secondary data was recently completed and shared among campaign project partners. A consultant and research assistants has been commissioned to conduct field level research with youth and trafficked victims in Singapore and in ‘source’ countries: Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia (Batam), China, Bangladesh and Vietnam. In Thailand, relevant information and cases of child survivors who were trafficked to Singapore for sexual purposes has been collected from relevant governmental and non‐governmental organisations through careful interviews; • Taiwan: ECPAT Taiwan received approximately US$15,860.00 from the sales of the ‘Soft Hand Kind Heart Hand Cream’ during the first phase of the campaign in Taiwan. The funds are going towards providing specialised care and reintegration services for child victims. Specifically, it goes towards improving shelter services and the provision of vocational skills for the child victims during the rehabilitation process. Feedback on the impact of the ‘Stop Sex Trafficking of Children & Young People Campaign’ was that the customers who participated in activities and purchased the hand cream were able to learn about the issue of child trafficking; • Thailand: Approximately US$4,432 was raised from the sales of the hand cream within the country. ECPAT Foundation has received the money and will be utilising the funds to support the Global Youth Partnership Project’s implementation in Chiang Rai. Recently, the Peer Support team from the New Life Centre organised a training session and drama performance for 70 children in the Baan Doi Village, an area identified as a high risk area for child trafficking. The event was led by the Peer Supporters and included a training session and a drama performance in the local ethnic language (Akha) to build better understanding of the issues of child trafficking and child rights. The Peer Support Group from the YMCA shelter also 6 This report will soon be available for download at: http://www.ecpat.net/EI/EI_publications.asp 10
developed a training course for 54 local school students at the Baan Pin Primary School to educate them on the dangers of child trafficking. The YMCA group also held a drama performance for more than 300 people at the Baan Rompothai school to raise awareness on sexual exploitation of children and trafficking; • United Kingdom: One of the biggest successes of the campaign, ECPAT UK has received over £200,000 from The Body Shop base on the sale of the hand cream alone. Projects that have begun with the related funds are a drama project by ECPAT UK’s youth group. The project is about their experience as child victims of trafficking in the UK but will be used as an awareness raising and advocacy tool for the general public. ECPAT UK has also started to plan a series of comprehensive training for relevant stakeholders through a multi‐disciplinary approach to improve response and care towards child victims; • United States: Funds from the sales of the hand cream in the Unites States was approximately $268,000. ECPAT USA has started on following anti‐child trafficking initiatives: 1. lobbying for changes in state laws to protect child victims of sexual exploitation (specifically in Connecticut, Ohio and Minnesota) and to build support for a new federal law to fund six federal shelters through out the US specifically for child victims of sexual exploitation and 2. providing specialised health care to child victims and building up the capacity of care givers at relevant organisations to improve services to child victims through trainings. C. PROGRESS CARDS An important advocacy component of the ‘Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Campaign’ is the country progress card system, which ECPAT and The Body Shop created to assess the progress of State’ action on specific commitments and promises to uphold the rights of the child to protection from sex trafficking and all forms of commercial sexual exploitation. In line with the 2008 Rio de Janeiro Declaration and Call for Action to Prevent and Stop Sexual Exploitation of Children from the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, this innovative tool will provides readers with information on states’ action to combat child trafficking, specifically towards the three objects of the campaign: 1. Community‐base prevention programmes to stop child trafficking are reaching at‐risk populations; 2. International legal standards for protecting children from trafficking have been incorporated into the national legal framework; and 3. Specialised government services for child victims of trafficking are integrated into national policies. In order to estimate the level of progress towards these goals, twelve indicators (four for each campaign objectives) have been developed that provide some measure of overall achievement of the goals. The findings for each indicator are presented in a progress card matrix which provides a visual index of the level of action for each indicator by specific countries. Three colours are used to indicate a significant (GREEN), partial (YELLOW) or inadequate (RED) level of state action being implemented to achieve the goals. Example Country Progress Card Matrix Goal 1: Community‐base Prevention Progammes 1.1 Prevention 1.2 Collaboration 1.3 Awareness raising 1.4 Teacher training Goal 2: Legal Framework 2.1 Optional Protocol 2.2 Trafficking Protocol 2.3 National legislation 2.4 Special police units Goal 3: Specialised Services for Child Victims 3.1 Helpline 3.2 Shelters 3.3 Medical services 3.4 Psychological counseling 11
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