Our collective and personal responsibility to fight human trafficking
2018, October 1 – Human Trafficking is a global phenomenon affecting millions of individuals. Each one of us can be part of the fight against it. But how? “Nobody made a greater mistake than he […]
Too Much, Too Young
2018, May 7 – A total of 650 million: This is the number of all girls and women alive in 2017 who where married as children as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimated in […]
Knowledge Is Power: Training Kids and Parents On Child Rights
2018, April 19 – Two weeks ago, Center for Girls visited the ethnic Lahu village of Songpinong. As part of our project together with Kindernothilfe, educational workshops on human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation […]
Mythbusting: Human Trafficking
2018, April 5 – There are many misconceptions surrounding human trafficking and what it entails. According to the 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, human trafficking is the ‘act of recruiting, harbouring, transporting, providing or obtaining […]
The Dangers of Voluntourism
2018, March 22 – Volunteering can be an incredibly rewarding and life changing experience, however it can also do more harm than good. Volunteering should mutually reward both the volunteer and the community in order […]
Mobile Child Rights Campaign
2018, February 17 – Over the past week Center for Girls brought our ”Mobile Child Rights” project to two schools in the Chiang Khong area. A crucial part of CFG‘s work is educating and empowering children in local schools and communities. The […]
United Forces: Fighting Violence Against Women Worldwide
2017, November 29 – NGOs around the world join in solidarity to campaign for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25th – and so does Center for Girls. The […]
An update from Bell*
2017, October 30 – Remember the emergency cases from earlier this year? “Bell* is 18 years old. Her parents died of HIV/AIDS when she was two years old. After that her grandmother and grandfather took care […]
Local Businesses Against Exploitation
2017, October 24 – Center for Girls held the second training session on human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) for the local business owners of Chiang Khong district, with almost 60 people […]
Songpinong Bags to be sold on Koh Phangan
2017, September 29 – The Songpinong Women for Change have secured their first distributor for their bag-making project! Last week, ten bags made by members of Women for Change in Songpinong, a remote village in […]