British Columbia’s Underground World of Human Trafficking
The Vancouver event of the National Public Awareness Campaign to End Modern-Day Slavery in Canada and book launch of Invisible Chains with author Benjamin Perrin took place on Monday, October 18, 2010.
Participants were able to meet local organizations working to fight human trafficking and learn about what they could do to fight human trafficking in Canada.
For a personal account of the event, read the blog post, The Invisible Chains Book Tour Comes to Vancouver!, on Hope for the Sold.
Partner Organizations
- Maytree Foundation
- Liu Institute for Global Issues
- Servants Anonymous Society
- Sisters of Good Sheppard
- Covenant House
- Salvation Army
- JCI
On Oct. 18, the National Public Awareness Campaign to End Modern-Day Slavery touched down in Vancouver. Over 175 people attended this standing room only event, including police officers, officials from the provincial government, non-governmental organizations and members of the public. Prof. Perrin called for greater support for local organizations that assist victims and for B.C. to step up and start convicting traffickers. To date, despite numerous cases in the province not a single person has been convicted of the crime in B.C. Michelle Brock with Hope for Sold wrote this report on the event. 
