Millions of children are trafficked globally each year, many for the purpose of child prostitution. At Project Karma, the sense of responsibility we feel toward our most vulnerable does not stop at our own borders.
Project Karma is a not-for-profit charity comprised of Australian and foreign law enforcement officers, investigators, operatives and other volunteers to combat the sexual exploitation of children throughout South East Asia.
Child exploitation is growing globally at more than 15% per year. We work with local communities in areas most at risk using an easily repeatable model that empowers sustainability and effectiveness.
Project Karma
A Registered Australian Charity Bringing Child Sex Exploitation Offenders to Justice in SE Asia & Rescuing Children from Human Trafficking for Prostitution
Yayasan Project Karma Indonesia – YPKI
This article demonstrates the reason we formed a working party of experts in 2017 and began designing child safety education programs in consultation with local government and community leaders to be introduced into classrooms in Bali.
In a first for Bali, we have been running our school student programs in kindergartens, elementary (primary) and junior high schools in the Karangasem regency for the last 12 months with tremendous results to date but we lack the required funding to expand these classes to more schools in other regencies in Bali.
Our program works with students, teachers and local community to help prevent crimes like the one in this article occurring but also makes it easier for a student to come forward and report an incident if/when one does occur in a local school or village.
We are also coordinating with international/independent schools in Bali to create uniform standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the board for dealing with instances like these and doing more to prevent them in private schools around Bali.
You can donate directly to fund these classes and expand these initiatives into further regions on Bali by visiting our website: www.projectkarma.org.au/support-us
In a first for Bali, we have been running our school student programs in kindergartens, elementary (primary) and junior high schools in the Karangasem regency for the last 12 months with tremendous results to date but we lack the required funding to expand these classes to more schools in other regencies in Bali.
Our program works with students, teachers and local community to help prevent crimes like the one in this article occurring but also makes it easier for a student to come forward and report an incident if/when one does occur in a local school or village.
We are also coordinating with international/independent schools in Bali to create uniform standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the board for dealing with instances like these and doing more to prevent them in private schools around Bali.
You can donate directly to fund these classes and expand these initiatives into further regions on Bali by visiting our website: www.projectkarma.org.au/support-us
Glen
I was proud to give oral evidence via video link to the The Truth Project UK Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse in February last year and I’m pleased to see the findings in the panel’s recently released report.
My evidence was referenced on three occasions in the report relating to tighter measures for UK registered child sex offenders travelling abroard.
In fact, I made recommendations that the UK Government emulate Australian legislative changes to introduced a blanket overseas travel ban on all UK registered child sex offenders.
1. Hulley 13 February 2019 5/5-19; witness statement of Glen Hulley dated 4 December 2018 (INQ003648 para 7); see also Protecting the Future: Improving the Response to Child Sex Offending in Southeast Asia, UNODC, 2014 (CRS000004), p4; Offenders on the Move: Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism 2016, ECPAT, 2016 (INQ003707), p49 ↵
2. Hulley 13 February 2019 7/18-8/16 ↵
3. Hulley 13 February 2019 4 ↵
Congratulations to all involved in the success of these public hearings. I would like to thank Emma Day and Child Redress International for their role in facilitating the taking of my statement.
Congratulations to other field experts, Professor Wendi Warren Binford for Child Redress, Bharti Patel for ECPAT UK and Seila Samleang for Aple Cambodia in providing compelling evidence and data which assisted in this result.
Congratulations also to the legal team representing Child Redress for the Inquiry, @Silvia Nicolaou (Simpson Millar), Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC (Doughty St. Chambers), and @Elizabeth Smith (Simpson Millar) and @Keina Yoshida (Doughty St. Chambers).
The Chair of the Inquiry, Professor @Alexis Jay OBE closed off the handing down of the report by saying,
“The sexual abuse of children overseas by UK nationals is an urgent problem which must be addressed. Current gaps in our legal system are allowing known offenders to travel abroad to target vulnerable children in less developed countries and this is simply not acceptable. The Panel and I hope this report and its recommendations will lead the authorities to tighten their grip on abusers who seek to exploit some of the most vulnerable children in the world.”
I could not agree more.
Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#childredress #accesstojustice #childrights #projectkarma #endchildexploitation #IICSA #thetruthproject #protectingchildren
The full inquiry report can be found here: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/inquiry-report-finds-gaps-uk-legal-system-are-allowing-known-offenders-sexually-abuse-children
The full findings report in .pdf can be read here: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/publications/investigation/protection-children-outside-united-kingdom
Article here: https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/09/tougher-travel-bans-should-be-imposed-on-uk-sex-offenders
My evidence was referenced on three occasions in the report relating to tighter measures for UK registered child sex offenders travelling abroard.
In fact, I made recommendations that the UK Government emulate Australian legislative changes to introduced a blanket overseas travel ban on all UK registered child sex offenders.
1. Hulley 13 February 2019 5/5-19; witness statement of Glen Hulley dated 4 December 2018 (INQ003648 para 7); see also Protecting the Future: Improving the Response to Child Sex Offending in Southeast Asia, UNODC, 2014 (CRS000004), p4; Offenders on the Move: Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism 2016, ECPAT, 2016 (INQ003707), p49 ↵
2. Hulley 13 February 2019 7/18-8/16 ↵
3. Hulley 13 February 2019 4 ↵
Congratulations to all involved in the success of these public hearings. I would like to thank Emma Day and Child Redress International for their role in facilitating the taking of my statement.
Congratulations to other field experts, Professor Wendi Warren Binford for Child Redress, Bharti Patel for ECPAT UK and Seila Samleang for Aple Cambodia in providing compelling evidence and data which assisted in this result.
Congratulations also to the legal team representing Child Redress for the Inquiry, @Silvia Nicolaou (Simpson Millar), Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC (Doughty St. Chambers), and @Elizabeth Smith (Simpson Millar) and @Keina Yoshida (Doughty St. Chambers).
The Chair of the Inquiry, Professor @Alexis Jay OBE closed off the handing down of the report by saying,
“The sexual abuse of children overseas by UK nationals is an urgent problem which must be addressed. Current gaps in our legal system are allowing known offenders to travel abroad to target vulnerable children in less developed countries and this is simply not acceptable. The Panel and I hope this report and its recommendations will lead the authorities to tighten their grip on abusers who seek to exploit some of the most vulnerable children in the world.”
I could not agree more.
Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#childredress #accesstojustice #childrights #projectkarma #endchildexploitation #IICSA #thetruthproject #protectingchildren
The full inquiry report can be found here: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/inquiry-report-finds-gaps-uk-legal-system-are-allowing-known-offenders-sexually-abuse-children
The full findings report in .pdf can be read here: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/publications/investigation/protection-children-outside-united-kingdom
Article here: https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/09/tougher-travel-bans-should-be-imposed-on-uk-sex-offenders
Inquiry report finds gaps in UK legal system are allowing known offenders to sexually abuse children abroad
The report finds that offenders from England and Wales are travelling to commit extensive abuse of children across the world, including in eastern Asia and Africa. It concludes that civil orders are not being used effectively to stop offenders visiting other countries where poverty and corruption ha…
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