[Ely Events] CHASTE Nationwide Tour

[Simon Kershaw]

*LOVE'S*

*NOT*

*FOR SALE*

A CHASTE Nationwide Tour

featuring


*Jonathan Aitken* Former Cabinet Minister and
bestselling author of /John Newton: //From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

'Fresh insightful and inspiring -- Aitken brings
Newton to life for a new generation of admirers'
/Alister McGrath

*Helen J Hicks* with songs from her new Album

/'Hicks - a Joni Mitchell on the cusp between folk
and jazz'
/Sunday Times 2007

*Carrie Pemberton* Founding CEO of CHASTE
CHASTE is a UK based ecumenical charity working
in the areas of sex trafficking

/'Carrie -- a passionate and inspiring advocate for
zero tolerance of trafficking for sexual exploitation'
/

*Birmingham* 14th November
Birmingham Cathedral (St Philip's)

*Cambridge* 15th November
Great St Mary's

*Leeds* 16th November
St George's Leeds

*Edinburgh* 20th November
St George's West

Commencing at all venues at 7.30pm

Tickets £3.50

Tickets available from your local
Wesley Owen shop
or on line from: www.chaste.org.uk <http://www.chaste.org.uk> or
www.helenjhicks.com <http://www.helenjhicks.com>

Please phone for group bookings
10 for £30
Tel: 0845 456 9335

www.chaste.org.uk <http://www.chaste.org.uk>

Every year an estimated 4,000 women are trafficked into Donate
the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation.

Last year dozens of children entering the UK were identified
as at risk to being trafficked into the informal sex industry.

CHASTE has developed Safe Housing for victims of this
terrible crime in the UK (Our network supplies one third of
Safe Housing) and has raised awareness of its brutalisation
of individuals, families and communities.

Help us make a difference.


The trafficking business is now worth an estimated £10.5 billion 
globally. Traffickers are part of an
international network supplying demand for sex as a commodity; the women 
and children whom
they entrap are their food chain. The cycle is infused with deception 
and brutality.

There are a large number of different ways women are trafficked into the 
UK for sexual
exploitation, such as:

    * fictitious advertisements in the country of origin
    * fictitious advertisements for marriages
    * kidnapping, often in regions devastated by war, where economic and
      social infrastructures have collapsed
    * girls sold by their families
    * grooming of adolescent girls by so called 'boyfriends' who are
      part of the criminal trafficking network, and
    * women locked into paying off serial debt bondage.

Once in the hands of their 'minders', women face an appalling future. 
These exploited young
women are kept in conditions akin to slavery. Here in the UK we do have 
tough sentences for
traffickers and the law is rigorously enforced against those who commit 
sexual crimes against
women involved in prostitution; but if the demand did not exist, the 
numbers involved in
trafficking would be greatly reduced.

Changing attitudes is never easy but campaigns do work. We can look back 
200 years to the
campaign that led to the abolition of the slave trade, or to the Jubilee 
2000 campaign that put
pressure on governments to take debt relief seriously for the poorest 
nations of the earth.

Our Christian beliefs must surely mean that we have to assert everyone's 
humanity? How can it
be right for anyone to buy sex? Isn't it time we made it illegal?

I want to congratulate CHASTE, the Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking 
across Europe, and the Revd
Dr Carrie Pemberton, who have been working to raise awareness of the 
trafficking of women
for sexual exploitation. This tour is a valuable addition to this work.

*Meg Munn*, /Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley,
Minister for Women and Equality, May 2005 -- June 2007
/
For more about how you can work for change visit
www.chaste.org.uk <http://www.chaste.org.uk>


    For Further information please email the CHASTE office using
    contact at chaste.org.uk <mailto:contact at chaste.org.uk> or telephone
    0845 456 9335.




-- 
Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire

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