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Canadian organizations fight pornography
and sex trafficking
Canada ranks in top three for hosting cybersex and child
sexual abuse websites

“WE ARE SIX victims inside of the house of my recruiter. My recruiter hurt me everyday when I do something bad he didn’t like. If I don’t follow him, he’s going to hurt me, to spank me, to slap me in the face in front of the people.” This is the story of Cassie, a girl from the Philippines who was forced to perform sexual acts in front of a computer for nearly five years.

Rescued by International Justice Mission (IJM), Cassie is one of many children who have been abused through cybersex trafficking – a form of slavery where pedophiles pay online to direct live sexual abuse of children.

Canada ranks in the top three countries for hosting cybersex websites and selling material containing child sexual abuse ( www.Cyber Tip.ca).

“It’s shocking as Canadians to think that this demand is coming from within our own nation,” says Kelly Cameron, manager of strategic engagement at IJM Canada, in an interview on See Hear Love.

IJM launched a campaign in March called #NotOnMyScreen ( www.NotOn-MyScreen.ca) to help shut down cybersex trafficking. The goal is to build awareness by putting campaign stickers on mobile devices, taking a pledge and spreading the word through social media.

“But with awareness comes responsib-
ility,” says Ed Wilson, executive director
of IJM Canada, “and we are calling on
Canadians to do whatever they can to
help stop cybersex trafficking of
children. The campaign is meant to
serve as a conversation starter for
families and church and community
groups, and a visible challenge to those
who, through their online behaviours
and habits, may be at risk of being
drawn into the dark world of cybersex
trafficking of children.”
Defend Dignity, another Canadian
organization that fights human traffick-
ing, is taking a stance against another
form of sexual exploitation in Canada
– pornography. Choose Change (www.
choosechangecanada.org) invites people
to contact five Canadian organizations
that they say facilitate sexual exploita-
tion through their practices and policies:
Amazon, Fairmont Hotels, The Keg
Restaurant, TekSavvy and the Toronto
Public Library. Their website explains
how each company is
enabling pornography
and includes action
buttons to send emails
that request change.
“Porn is harmful
and needs to be
curtailed,” says Glendyne Gerrard,
director of Defend Dignity. “It directly
impacts the demand for trafficking.”
Gerrard hopes Choose Change will
encourage less sexual exploitation and
trafficking. She hopes “We will see kids
believing that their value and worth are
not wrapped up in their bodies – that
they each have dignity simply for who
they are and how God created them to
be. We will live in a Canada where rape
culture is replaced by respect culture.
There will be less misogyny and more
mutual respect and equality between the
genders. What a Canada that would be.”