JCI Lower Mainland Co-Hosts the

Invisible Chains Book Launch

October 18, 2010 @ UBC

Human trafficking is happening.

In your backyard.

Join us to find out what you can do.

JCI member, UBC Law Professor and activist Benjamin Perrin’s upcoming book is a shocking exposé and impassioned call to action to end human trafficking in Canada. Meet local organizations working to fight human trafficking and learn about what you can do. Get informed. Be inspired. End modern-day slavery in B.C. 

Attend the B.C. event of the National Public Awareness Campaign to End Modern-Day Slavery in Canada and book launch of Invisible Chains with author Benjamin Perrin.

"Invisible Chains" - Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.

The global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In Invisible Chains, Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines--police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves--and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.

BENJAMIN PERRIN is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and a leading expert on human trafficking. As senior policy adviser to the minister of citizenship and immigration, and a witness before several parliamentary committees, he has advised the federal government on this issue. He has also worked overseas with victims and assisted in the prosecution of child sex offenders as executive director of The Future Group, a non-governmental organization that he founded in 2000 to combat human trafficking. 

For FREE tickets to this event, please see:
http://invisiblechains-vancouver.eventbrite.com/  

For more on Benjamin Perrin please see:
http://www.law.ubc.ca/faculty/Perrin/web/index.html