Human sex trafficking and sexual exploitation

This meeting was held at Artisan Eats. Participants attended in-person and on Zoom. The entire event was recorded by Zoom and the video is available below.

Cathy Peters raises awareness about the issue of human sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and child sexual trafficking which is for the purpose of prostitution. She speaks and presents to politicians, police and the public.

Cathy Peters

The average age of entry into prostitution is 12–14 years of age in Canada, although traffickers are targeting children as young as 8. There has been a dramatic increase in child exploitation along with the production and consumption of child pornography. Unregulated technology has increased the demand for commercially paid sex.

The biggest problem in Canada is that the public is unaware of the issue. Women, youth, children, the marginalized and vulnerable will become potential targets and victims unless we do something to stop it.

Today’s slavery has low costs and huge profits; a trafficker can make hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim per year.

You are welcome to watch the video here, but if you’d like to help Cathy Peters, you can make it easier for the public to find this program by following these easy steps

1. In the video window, click on Watch on YouTube. This will take you to the YouTube web page for this video.
2. Play/watch the video. Google will register this as a hit. The more hits the page has, the higher the ranking of the page in the search engine (this will help others to find this video).
3. Consider watching most or all of the video. Google does track for how long a viewer watches and exactly when they leave the recording. Yes, it makes a difference.
4. Does watching for an hour seem like too much time to spend on this task? Consider speeding up the video by clicking on the Gear Icon and choosing to watch at 1.5x or 2.0x speed. Cathy speaks very clearly and even at 2x speed she is intelligible. To make it even easier, click the CC button and read along with the Closed Captions.
5. Click the Thumbs-UP/Like icon. If you have actually watched much of the video, hitting that button makes a large contribution to Google ranking this video. You’ll need to be logged into your Gmail account for this to be registered. And, you may do this only once. Thanks!