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1. Public seminar on dangers of trafficking and violence against women and children

1.      Public seminar on dangers of trafficking and violence against women and children
In order to maximize the action’s impact on larger scale, series of seminars were hold to address causes and consequences of human trafficking and how to combat it. These seminars targeted primarily the families of the victims who have been identified through community leaders and religious leaders and schools where drop outs exist as result of early marriages or child compulsory labour (domestic servants) with the assistance of the partner NGOs in the targeted areas. The seminars seek to raise the community’s awareness in the targeted governorates and identify the concept of human trafficking and what makes families fall into such a trap. The seminars targeted victims and their families who benefited from legal advice, social and psychological rehabilitation and other activities of the project. In addition, they have been encouraged to involve their acquaintances and other members of the community to enlarge the project's advocacy against human trafficking. They acted as activist who work to combat trafficking and advise potential victims to identify the risks and find alternative ways to provide for their living.

Implemented activities:
AEFL has implemented 9 seminars on as follows:
Serial
Location
Participants
Dates
1st seminar
Qalubia
105 (80 women, 25 men)
28/11/2013
2nd seminar
San Gorge Hotel, Giza
54 women
4/12/2013
3rd seminar
Qalubia
100 (90 women, 10 men)
12/1/2014
4th seminar
Giza
93
17 November 2014
5th seminar
Giza
69
21 February 2015
6th seminar
Sharkia
88
11 April 2015
7th seminar
Sharkia
91
2 May 2015
8th seminar
Sharkia
90
14 May 2015
9th seminar
Qaliobia
150
3 June 2015

The seminars addressed the following issues:
·         Introduction to victims of sexual exploitation
·         Sex tourism, tourism marriage
·         Exploitation of children in media
·         Forced labour
·         Forced marriage for the purpose of profiteering
·         The exploitation of children in in hazardous work:
·         Exploitation in drugs trafficking
·         Exploitation in wars and armed conflicts, "the recruitment of children."
·         Working in unsuitable places for children, such as factories of sand, marble and crackers, glass and metal.
·         Work in radioactive materials and petrochemicals.
·         Over-exhausting agriculture and irrigation works that denying them access to education.
·         Working in places that pose a threat to children's health
·         The exploitation of children in begging.
·         Victims of forced marriages
·         Victims of forced abortion as a result of exploitation
·         Women who are victims of exploitation in the practice of immoral or illegal acts
·         victims of human organs amputation

Seminar addressed anonymous live cases of human trafficking from among the action’s beneficiaries or of the organization's database or of cases that attracted media interest. Providing live cases had a good impact on audience as they will have more credibility rather than providing mere theoretical information. This approach seeks to discuss and analyse common problem of human trafficking like children labour and girls’ early marriage and derive weaknesses and strengths to be introduced as learned lessons.