Fight Human Trafficking

Walk 5 km on Sep 18 to raise awareness and funds to fight human trafficking. Walk starts from Adelaide St.(W), Toronto.  Registration required.

Thousands of young Canadian women and girls are in forced prostitution: their shackles are crack cocaine, their overseers are gangsters. Many more are bought and sold as house slaves after being tricked into coming to Canada as nannies and temporary workers.

They could be in homes; they could be in restaurants; it could be in very ordinary places, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Tuesday. Often, they are faceless, nameless and here illegally.

Toews accepted a petition that was a partnership between Beyond Borders, an anti-human trafficking group, and cosmetics chain The Body Shop in Ottawa Tuesday.

The petition is signed by 500,000 Canadians and 7 million people worldwide. It calls on all governments to take action. The feds have already passed bills combating the practice, and say they will roll out a national strategy in the fall........