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Polaris Post Volume 34
April 2010
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The weekend in Tokyo was chilly but the cherry blossoms were in full
bloom. We should be take good care of ourselves in this chilly spring.
* Activity Report 2009 is now online==================================
The annual activity report 2009 in Japanese is now online at
Polaris
Japan's website.
The Tokyo office made the organizational base more solid by becoming
an officially non-profit organization, certified by the Cabinet Office
of Japan.
The following numbers give you some of the highlights of 2009...
348 phone calls to our hotline (356 in 2008)
43 cases of direct services to victims (e.g. accompanying victims to the
public services, the police, etc) (24 in 2008)
2,781 participants to the speeches made by
Polaris staff (2,213 in 1008),
including 1,080 people who attended the speeches made for the police,
the immigration bureau, the government, and educational professions
650 people attended
Polaris monthly seminar "How do we stop commercial
sexual exploitation of children?" (since February 2009-) (0 in 2008)
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* Saturday, April 17 Symposium on the background of Troubled Youth=======
Polaris Japan will join as a panelist for the Tokyo Metro government's
symposium on the background of Troubled Youth on April 17, starting
at 1:30pm.
Polaris staff will be discussing the issue with the staff from other
organizations that are well experienced in the field of child advocacy.
Anyone can attend the event, so please come hear the talk.
The event will be held in Japanese.
For more information, please see: http://bit.ly/c3aOFT (in Japanese)
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*New official
Polaris Blog!==============================================
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/polarisproject/
We have launched a new official
Polaris Project blog in Japanese.
For the latest news, please check out our blog and spread the word!
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*
Polaris Digest (March-April 2010)=======================================
March 7
Polaris staff talked at Katari-Cafe on
"Lives and Bodies: Teen girls now and their sexuality"
March 13
Polaris Project's co-founder, Katherine Chon, was awarded the
Diane Von Furstenberg Awards given by fashion designer and
philanthropist, Diane von Furstenberg at the United Nations.
The award was created for women who have the courage to fight,
the power to survive, and the leadership to inspire.
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/03/15/dvf-awards-ingrid-betancourt-meryl-stree/
March 19
Polaris staff spoke at the Tokyo Metro Arakawa Business High School
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/polarisproject/20100319/1268981176 (in Japanese)
March 26
Polaris staff spoke at the symposium on Convention on the Rights
of the Child organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/polarisproject/20100331/1270011224 (in Japanese)
April 1
Polaris comments on the Weekly Spa!
"'I sold the nudity of my daughter' Interview with Mother who sold"
http://www.zakzak.co.jp/zakspa/news/20100330/zsp1003301920021-n1.htm
(in Japanese)
April 3
Polaris comments on the Sankei Shimbun
"Cheating, Trouble: The Good and the Bad of the Fast Growing 'Delivery
Health' or Deliver-at-home-Teen-Prostitution"
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100403-00000513-san-soci (in Japanese)
From 3/1/2010 to 3/31/2010
Polaris received 18 hotline inquiries.
Of 18 contacts, 11 were by phone and 7 were by Internet.
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* Human Trafficking Related News (in Japanese) http://bit.ly/cqeQHE
* 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 Community on mixi (in Japanese)
http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=1374560
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*You can be a
Polaris Supporter with continues monthly donation
starting from 1,000 yen per month.
https://polarisproject.jp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=259&Itemid=66 (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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of human trafficking in Japan.
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Contact
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