Oct. 23: Edmonton Book Launch

Edmonton skylineEdmonton’s Underground World of Human Trafficking

The Edmonton 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 Saturday, October 23, 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.

Read an overview of the event in the Edmonton Sun.

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When city cops rescued three immigrant women from forced prostitution in a west-end massage parlour in September 2009, they didn’t realize what they were getting into.

The three women — one from China and two from Fiji — had been completely controlled by their captors. They were told when to eat, when to sleep, what to wear, how to think.

It was the first time in Western Canada that police laid human trafficking charges. [Read More]