8 September 2006, 7.30pm

Last Friday the trafficking sub-committee and friends faced a capacity audience at the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO) to share the findings of the research on the Legal instruments to curb sexual exploitation of children outside of Singapore. The audience heard about the magnitude of the problem as a world-wide phenonmenon; the prevention and protection available in a limited but not impossible way through legal instruments; the role young people need to play in public education; and the cross-border support given to regional organisations. Questions came fast focusing mainly on what could be the next step. AWARE has sent this report to the relevant ministries and looks forward to meeting like-minded individuals to see what we can do together. So please do drop us a note.

AWARE would like to thank SCWO for its support and deeply express its gratitude to Azmeen Moiz, Halijah Mohamad for all their hard work in analysing the legal documents, getting case studies and writing up the report; the NUS Pro Bono Law Society for getting some parts of the research done; Intern Mary Burke for ploughing through and double checking all the footnotes and Delia Paul for editing work and researching on the magnitude of the problem.

Braema Mathi
Co-ordinator of the Extra-territorial Legislation for Child Trafficking Report