{"id":22425,"date":"2021-10-07T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:48:30","slug":"new-ngo-aims-to-raise-awareness-on-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/2021\/10\/07\/new-ngo-aims-to-raise-awareness-on-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"New NGO aims to raise awareness on human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\u00a0Asanda Matlhare<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Intern Journalist\u2013\u00a0asandam@citizen.co.za<\/em><\/strong> For more info see:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/citizen.co.za<\/a> Date:<\/strong>\u00a001 Oct 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only does the foundation aim to raise awareness\nof human trafficking, it also wants to shine a light on gender-based violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a bid to combat human trafficking, the Hope to\nHeal Foundation has launched its inaugural Global Action for Freedom Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only does the foundation aim to raise awareness\nof human trafficking, it also wants to shine a light on gender-based violence\nby implementing programmes consisting of workshops, reading materials and\nvideos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the launch, the foundation\u2019s Kameshree\nMoodley said on Thursday human trafficking<\/a> and\ngender-based violence were crimes against humanity which infringed on victims\u2019\nbasic rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese heinous crimes are affecting vulnerable\ncommunities across the globe and are a global health risk. The government,\ncorporate sector and civil society need to come together in one force with a\nunified plan of action,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matrix Men founder Martin Pelders was also at the\nlaunch. He said men and boys were also sexually exploited but that there was\nnot enough dialogue around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALSO READ: SA records over 120,000 GBV cases\nduring lockdown<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a side so many people don\u2019t look at; they\ndon\u2019t look into boys being trafficked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, he went on, young boys were often manipulated\nand groomed into being trafficked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Matrix Men, we were founded to help boys and\nmen who were sexually abused come forward and focus not only on repairing\nbroken men, but building better men,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocate Liechen Strydom said the legislation which\ndealt with such crimes was fairly new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in\nPersons Act 7 of 201 only came into effect in 2015 South Africa is still in the\nbaby phase when it comes to this legislation but, ultimately, the prevention of\ncombating of trafficking persons act works together with other legislation,\u201d\nshe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was proving to be effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year, an advocate from Pretoria got a\nconviction on a sex trafficking matter, which was the first of its kind in\nSouth Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe perpetrators received 19 life sentences. The\ncase was about a girl who was exploited by family members and for that the\ncourt took a strong stance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Johannesburg\u2019s Professor Corne\nDavis noted: \u201cOur problem when dealing with issues of exploitation, such as\nmodern slavery and gender-based violence particularly, is it remains invisible,\nbecause most of these offences are not reported.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Asanda Matlhare<\/a> <\/strong>Intern\nJournalist\u2013 asandam@citizen.co.za<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more info see:<\/strong> https:\/\/citizen.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Asanda Matlhare\u00a0Intern Journalist\u2013\u00a0asandam@citizen.co.za For more info see:\u00a0https:\/\/citizen.co.za Date:\u00a001 Oct 2021 Not only does the foundation aim to raise awareness of human trafficking, it also wants to shine a light on gender-based violence. In a bid to combat human trafficking, the Hope to Heal Foundation has launched its inaugural Global Action for Freedom Summit. Not only […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"tpgb_global_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-scaled.jpg",700,467,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3738-scaled.jpg",1020,680,false],"default":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"October 7, 2021","get_modified_date":"October 7, 2021","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":19,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":238,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false},"author_name":"Hope To Heal","author_url":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/author\/hope2233\/","author_email":"webmaster@hopetoheal.org.za","author_website":"","author_description":"Our mission is for women and children to live free from violence and abuse and to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing domestic violence and child abuse and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Hope To","author_lastname":"Heal Foundation","user_login":"Hope2233","author_avatar":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/00ba9733f71edb9653d7f34fee6719bfc21db4d30ee7e9a8d61ac758d1032f46?s=96&d=mm&r=g","comment_count":0,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"News<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22428,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}