Media Releases

Benjamin Perrin, a law professor and author of “Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking”, eight leading Canadian organizations committed to the issue, four provincial governments and almost 10,000 members of the public are calling on Craigslist to immediately shut down its erotic/adult services section in Canada as recently done in the U.S. [Read More]

Today, October 14, 2010, UBC Law Professor Benjamin Perrin and MP Joy Smith will be holding a press conference to address the issue of human trafficking in Manitoba and on what measures must be taken to end human trafficking and related sexual exploitation. [Read More]

Teenage girls and young women from Quebec are falling prey to violent sex traffickers, but a prevention education program is warning vulnerable youth that they could become victims.

Cinderella’s Silence: A Story of Gang Prostitution, is a prevention education program first launched in 2002. Targeted at youth ages 12-18, the education program teaches them about tactics used by street gangs to recruit young girls into prostitution and the warning signs that someone may be exploited. [Read More]

Ontario has done little to assist victims of human trafficking, despite having the largest proportion of human trafficking victims and the greatest number of human trafficking prosecutions underway.

At the Toronto book launch for Invisible Chains: Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking, author and UBC law professor Benjamin Perrin called on the Ontario government to (1) create a provincial agency or coordinating body to help connect trafficking victims with needed services; and (2) create an integrated police task force to crack down on violent traffickers operating in the province. [Read More]

For most people, the term “human trafficking” conjures up images of women spirited in container ships by organized crime, or distant lands where children are sold to sex tourists. It turns out the problem is a lot closer to home. [Read More]