Stop Using the Term Underage Women
The June 2019 arrest of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has brought the issue of human trafficking into the news again. It is a good time to talk about how to refer to the victims and survivors of this evil.
Bethsaida Restoration Development Association (BRDA)
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Women and girls engaged in sex work are particularly vulnerable to being trafficked to the Middle East. As a consequence, the Bethsaida Restoration Development Association (BRDA) engages with at-risk populations in five woredas of Addis Ketema, including in Merkato which has the biggest red light district in Ethiopia, to provide life skills, vocational training, business skills and livelihood options, leading to improved income. BRDA works to improve knowledge, attitudes and practices of commercial sex workers likely to migrate by providing information on safe migration; in addition, it conducts wider community awareness and education through iddir member groups.
- Contact Information:
- Addis Ketema
- Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa
- Ethiopia
- Active In: Ethiopia
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Empowerment
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Child Labor
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“I was born into poverty. I tried to study and go to school. After that, I tried to receive work and earn an income. So, I applied to a Thai company. I didn’t know I was going to be trafficked."
Insider Anti-Trafficking Information
One of my current projects is to get forced gang membership redefined as trafficking as forced child soldiering.