Guelph women’s group hosting free online seminar on being aware of human trafficking
How to detect signs of human trafficking is the focus of a virtual seminar hosted by Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis.
The 90-minute information session goes this Wednesday and will cover trends, challenges people face, ways help those who are being trafficked and more. Human trafficking was once seen as a “big city problem,” but there is evidence that women and girls are being recruited or sold for sex in areas like Guelph, Wellington County and Waterloo Region.
“The most common thing to happen to people in Ontario who are being trafficked is to be moved up and down 401, in and around the GTA,” said Cindy McMann, a public educator at Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis. “It is very easy for traffickers to take detours off the 401, come into small-town and rural areas, and recruit people from those places.”The seminar will feature a panel of people who work in a variety of anti-human trafficking positions:Olena Kania, project co-ordinator of Youth Activist Inc.
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