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       Polaris Post　Volume 39
                                       September 2010
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Have you seen the music clip of "Love The Way You Lie," a new
song by Eminem and Rihanna （http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U）?
Polaris Japan twittered about it.

The song features domestic violence. It does introduce the issue
to the listeners, at the same time, it sounds like it speaks for
the perpetrator.
Either way the video is very powerful--please watch it and let
us know what you think!

And Radiohead sings about human trafficking through their song
"All I need": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xHfBAKMcCc



＜Next Seminar＞
Polaris will host a movie screening of "Lilja-4ever," a film
on human trafficking which has not been released in Japan.
Saturday, October 16, 2pm-5pm, at University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
No regular seminar will be held in October.

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* Human Trafficking Hotline

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Polaris Project in the U.S. has been running a hotline exclusive for
human trafficking since 2007.

The hotline is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and other grants. Polaris Project US has publicized this hotline very
well and they receive several hundred calls--or sometimes more than
1,000 calls, from people who seek help and those who have critical
information about victims.

Polaris Japan's hotline is smaller in scale, but receive calls everyday mainly from greater Tokyo area.

We need to publicize about our hotline, but Japan also need raise awareness
so that more people understand that human trafficking does exist in Japan.

Your contribution has supported our hotline for victims in Japan.
Please continue to support Polaris Japan's victim services!

http://www.polarisproject.jp/engsite/support

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/polarisproject/20100820/1282292784
(full story in Japanese)
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* Sign for the Body Shop's Stop Sex Trafficking of Children &
 Young People Petition

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The Body Shop has been running a petition to request the Japanese government
to set up comprehensive policies to stop trafficking of children and young
people. You can sign the petition at their stores or online:
http://www.the-body-shop.co.jp/values/stop_traffic/stop_trafficking_01.html
(in Japanese)

The Body Shop has contributed our Monthly Seminar 2010 as well; thank you
Body Shop!

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* Polaris Digest (August 2010)
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August 3　Joined the Upper House seminar for Adopting compliments procedure
         on UN convention on the Rights of Child

August 26 Had a booth at TAC Entrepreneurship Fair hosted by the U.S.
         Embassy and Tokyo American Center (TAC), as a "Young Entrepreneurship"

August 28　Polaris Project Monthly Seminar 2010 "You Know Human Trafficking?"
          "Japanese Victims--Children and Sexual Crime, Abuse, and Sex Industry"


From August 1 to 29, 2010, Polaris received 38 hotline inquiries.
Among the  contacts,  26 were by phone and 12 were by Internet.
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* Polaris on Facebook: http://bit.ly/polarisjp

* Human Trafficking Related News (in Japanese)　http://bit.ly/cqeQHE

* Blog Polaris Diary: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/polarisproject/ (in Japanese)

* Booklet "It’s Happening to Her, Right Now" On Sale (in Japanese)
 http://bit.ly/bBod3r

* Polaris: SOS website for girls http://www.pol214.com/ (in Japanese)

* Polaris Project's Drop-in Center for Women (in Japanese) http://bit.ly/abOHFJ

* Polaris is tweeting: http://twitter.com/ppjapan (in Japanese and English)

* Polaris Community on mixi (in Japanese) http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1374560
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*You can be a Polaris Supporter with continuous monthly donation
starting from 1,000 yen per month.
http://bit.ly/8ZWT13 (in Japanese)
If you join now, the booklet "It’s Happening to Her, Right Now"
will be given as a welcome gift!

*Turn your online shopping into actions to support Polaris through
E-Kokoro http://www.ekokoro.jp/ngo/polaris/index.html
(Donation website in Japanese)
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