Submitted by Gracia Janes
The public is invited to a free meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario this September 13 on one of the least talked about crimes in this region – human trafficking.
The speaker for this meeting, to begin at 8 p.m. in the Mills Room of the St. Catharines Centennial Library on 54 Church Street in the city’s downtown, is Niagara Regional Police Detective Sergeant Craig Labaune , a passionate opponent of human trafficking, who will remind us that Niagara is not free from this world-wide fast- growing blight, and expose human trafficking in Niagara for what it is – “a crime against vulnerable victims!”.
Sergeant Labaune calls human trafficking a “ghost crime, whose nature, and how and where it is perpetuated , allows it to remain almost invisible.” And, he intends to alert the public to its “characteristics, evolution, why it is here, how it goes virtually undetected, and why modern pop culture glamorizes it to young people.”
The meeting is sponsored by the 21 Affiliated group members and 35 Individual members of the St. Catharines and District Council of Women.
Gracia Janes is a Niagara resident and long-time citizens activist in our greater Niagara region who is president of the St. Catharines and District Council of Women.
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