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Meet four new members of CAP Intl & download our publication on the French law in Spanish, French & English.
Dear partners and friends,

We are excited to introduce you to four new members of the CAP Intl family: Exit Prostitution Association (Finland), People Serving Girls at Risk (Malawi), Talita (Sweden), and South Kolkota Hamari Muskan (India). CAP Intl currently has 22 member organisations, providing direct assistance to victims of sexual exploitation in 17 countries and calling for the abolition of prostitution.
You can also download CAP's publication on the French law in Spanish (also available in EN & FR): La ley francesa del 13 de abril de 2016 para reforzar la lucha contra el sistema prostitucional y apoyar a las personas prostituidas: Principios, metas, medidas y proceso de adopción de una ley histórica.
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CAP International Secretariat

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22 frontline NGOs providing direct assistance to victims of sexual exploitation. 

New CAP Intl members in Finland, India, Malawi and Sweden

Exit Prostitution Association (Finland) (pois prostituutiosta ry) is working to diminish prostitution and sexual maltreatment. The main focus is on preventive and advocacy work and participation in public debate. Counseling work is growing in all target groups.

Youth Exit (Nuorten Exit) works on the domain of primary and secondary prevention of sexual maltreatment and compensational sex of adolescents. The preventive work is done both online and in different public environments. Youth Exit provides awareness-raising workshops for secondary school students and trains multidisciplinary professionals working with adolescents, mainly in the capital area of Finland. On the national level, preventive work is done in forms of online-counseling and social media. The focus of work is on empowerment by promoting sexual self-determination and sexual rights, and providing knowledge. Youth Exit is a permanently funded function of Exit Prostitution Association.

Exit Prostitution Association also works among substance abusers (Usva-hanke) between the age of 18-25 providing counseling regarding sexual violence, different forms of maltreatment and prostitution.

People Serving Girls at Risk (Malawi) is registered under Trustees Incorporation Act as a non-profit making charity. Its mission is to fight against commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of girls and women. PSGR strives to implement programmes that are holistic in nature in responding to prostitution and sex trafficking.
Key programmes include; public awareness raising on commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking; rescuing victims of trafficking from brothels; provision of psychosocial counseling to survivors of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking; reintegration of survivors of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking in their respective communities; PSGR also collaborates and networks with other local, regional and global like-minded organizations to lobby and influence policy change to emancipate girls and women from all forms of social and human rights injustices!


Talita (Sweden) is a non-profit organization ​in Sweden ​offering both acute and long​-​term support to women who have been exploited in prostitution, pornography or human trafficking for sexual purposes.​ ​Talita ​runs safe houses in Sweden, Mongolia and Romania​ where we ​offer​ ​a one-year program​ for our target group​​. ​​We have formed a method for rehabilitation that consists of: safe housing, trauma therapy, psychoeducation, planning for the future and transition to independent living and integration into society. We strive after a holistic approach to each woman’s situation and we aspire to create a safe place where new hope can be formed. Talita’s motto is​​ to ​​see the whole person, ​​help her the entire way, ​​regardless of where she has been exploited and ​​regardless of whether or not someone pays for her ​stay at Talita.​ ​

South Kolkata Hamari Muskan (India) is a front-line, anti-trafficking organisation working with second-generation prostituted women and children (prostituted or otherwise) to prevent trafficking and second-generation prostitution in two red light areas of Kolkata—Shonagachhi (Asia’s largest red light area) & Bowbazaar (West Bengal, India). SKHM stands by the abolitionist model. SKHM has met survivors who have defined prostitution as sexual slavery. SKHM’s values are the women’s perspectives.

Descarga nuestra publicación sobre la ley francesa, ahora disponible en español

                   

Disponible en français  | Available in English 

In the media
 Huffington Post, From "Sex Work" advocate to survivor leader, 25 May 2017
 India West, Girls as Young as Five are Sold into Prostitution In India, says Anti-Trafficking Activist Ruchira Gupta, 9 June 2017
 Prostitution Research & Education, Six survivors speak out about New Zealand's punishing "sex" industry, 6 June 2017


Events CAP Intl & members are organising & attending

Key:  = member event = CAP Intl event

 13-14 June | Malta | CAP International and members Women@thewell, Comision Unidos vs Trata and Fondation Scelles participate: Sharing models and best practices to end modern slavery and restore dignity to its victims
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