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Justice committee One of the things we've seen that has grown recently is the age. It happens at a very young age: for example, from high school. One of the cases we work with is where kids go to high school, but they never go into school because they're picked up by their pimps, and then they're
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Sandra Rupnarain
Justice committee Yes, there is a danger.
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Sandra Rupnarain
Justice committee That's a good question. We're currently going to be having a presentation to the Region of Peel as well, because it is also following the Ontario mandate on human trafficking. We've been asked to do a presentation to council around the work being done, because the hope is that th
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Sandra Rupnarain
Justice committee A part of what we do as the institute is that we try to organize activities around knowledge and dissemination, and when we do that through the forum of symposiums or conferences, we try to invite our community partners as much as we can. We had a symposium two years ago at the U
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Sandra Rupnarain
Justice committee Human trafficking has many faces. A year-end report suggests that 80% of all human trafficking victims are subject to sexual exploitation. Therefore, our submission today will focus on the human trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls. While we, ourselves, are not
May 29th, 2018Committee meeting
Sandra Rupnarain