Polaris Post Volume 31
December 2009
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* Thank you for your continuous support to Polaris Project in 2009!
The year of 2009 is ending soon and we are delivering you the last
issue of the Polaris Post of this year.
In 2009, Polaris Project Japan has had many achievements.
We have started an SOS website and a drop-in center for girls.
In addition, we are now officially recognized as a non-profit
organization in Japan.
Your support has helped us make these achievements.
Thank you for all your support to Polaris Project in 2009!
we will strengthen our effort to support victims of human
trafficking and its prevention.
Please watch and help us as we grow in the new year!
Support Polaris Project by:
- Tell your friends about Polaris Project and its free e-newsletter,
Polaris Post; ask them to join us on our website!
- Turn your online shopping into actions to support Polaris
http://www.ekokoro.jp/ngo/polaris/index.html (in Japanese)
- Volunteer with Polaris
http://www.polarisproject.jp/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=247:volunteer&catid=96:join&Itemid=217
- Become a Polaris Partner
http://www.polarisproject.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=249&Itemid=216
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* Saturday, January 9, 2009, 2:00pm-
at Minato-ku Gender Equality Center "Libra"
The eighth in Polaris' monthly seminar series, "How do we stop
commercial sexual exploitation of children?"
"Why did the girls left home to night towns?: From "Pity Victims" to
"Sex Workers as Agencies"
The first seminar of the year 2010 will focus on a following
question: who are the girls and young women working in the
sex industry?
People who migrate from overseas to Japan, especially those who are
engaged in the sex industry, have been regarded as either of the two
opposing images: "victims of human trafficking" or "criminals who
break the immigration law and the anti-prostitution law."
Yet, to many of us, both "victims" and "criminals" seem to vary far
from our daily lives.
On January 9th, we will have Ms Kaoru Aoyama from Kyoto
University. Her field of stury include gender, sexuality, and
immigrant labor. She will introduce examples from her interviews
research and propose a new perspective on global sex industry that
will focus on sex workers as "agents," who is neither "victims" or
"criminals"
By learning the social backgrounds why girls and young women may
engage in sex work, we explore a way to understand our lives might
not be completely separated from their lives.
Please join us in the discussion.
*Please note that the time is different from previous seminars.
<Date and Time> Saturday, January 9, 2009, 2:00pm-3:30pm
<Venue> Minato-ku Gender Equality Center "Libra," Assembly Room 2
Two-minute walk from Shibaura Exit (East Exit) of JR Tamachi Station
Four-minute walk from Exit A4 of Mita Station
(Toei-Asakusa Line/Mita Line)
Map:
http://www.minatolibra.jp/category/1327005.html (in Japanese)
<Speaker>
Kaoru Aoyama, Assistant Professor for Kyoto University GCOE Program
Sociology/ Gender and Sexuality, Sex work, Immigrant labor, research
methodologies, and social theory
Publications:
In Japanese
Who is a "Sex Worker?": Experience and Structure of Migration,
Sexual Labour and Trafficking, 2007, Tokyo, Otsuki Shoten
In English
"Thai Migrant Sexworkers: from Modernisation to Globalisation"
（2009, Palgrave/Macmillan）
<Admission Fee>
1,000 yen (500 yen for students; please present your student ID at
the door)
<Organizers>
Organized by Polaris Project Japan Office
Co-Hosted by Human Service Center
<Registration>
Please register by filling in the form online (in Japanese) at:
http://my.formman.com/form/pc/jtlfbc6KYEZPZFJm/ *Your registration will be complete when you submit the form online.
Polaris Project will not reply to you registration.
*Same-day registration at the door will be accepted only when there
are seats available.
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* Charity concert by Actors/Singers Ken Matsudaira and George
Yamamoto helps fund Polaris Project
http://pm-j.asia/event/event.html (in Japanese)
On December 17, at Tower Hall Funahori, Tokyo, Ken Matsudaira and
George Yamamoto held a charity event that benefits Polaris Project.
Polaris Project presented our activities to the audience and a part
of the profit of the concert will be donated to us. Thank you!
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Interview with Polaris is on a magazine for women, learning, and
growing the next generation
http://www.soc.nii.ac.jp/jawe2/publish/welearn/index.html (in Japanese)
"Fresh talk: Sexual violence near you--how do we help young people
enhance their ideas about the human rights," an interview with
Shihoko Fujiwara, the Polaris Project Coordinator is a headline of
"We learn" (Nov/Dec issue, no 681), published by Japan Association
for Women's Education.
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*Human Trafficking Related News (in Japanese)
http://www.polarisproject.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=49 (in Japanese)
*Polaris: SOS website for girls
http://www.pol214.com/ (in Japanese)
*Polaris Project's Drop-in Center for Women*
http://www.polarisproject.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=589:2009-09-14-08-08- 54&catid=42:news&Itemid=76
(in Japanese)
*Booklet "It's Happening to Her, Right Now" On Sale
http://www.polarisproject.jp/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=279:book&catid=42:news&Itemid=76
(in Japanese)
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