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11 September 2025
Porta-Potty: The Dark Reality of Sexual Exploitation
The phrase “Porta Potty Party” has spread across the internet, sensationalised as a bizarre spectacle of money, sex, and humiliation. But behind the…
4 September 2025
Beyond “Sex for Fish”: The Male Accountability Crisis in Ghana’s Trafficking Networks
Triggered by new research, a disturbing video investigation published this week reveals how male-dominated systems perpetuate child sexual…
21 August 2025
Cyber Scamming: The Rise of Industrial-Scale Operations and Human Trafficking
Cyber scamming operations have evolved from individual criminal activities into sophisticated, industrial-scale enterprises generating tens of…
7 August 2025
From Tamale to Madrid: How Global Digital Culture is Grooming Girls into Sexual Economies
A recent Spanish study on adolescents’ perceptions of OnlyFans reveals troubling parallels with our findings from Tamale, Northern Ghana. Despite…
30 July 2025
My Lens – I am still here – Photography Exhibition
Survivors of modern slavery are taking back control of their stories in a moving new online photography exhibition, ‘My Lens – I am still here’…
19 April 2025
Community Human Trafficking Awareness Event in Tamale
Following strong community interest generated by our school and community sessions, the Hope Education Project hosted a final public event as part of…
9 April 2025
Hope Education Project: Anti-Trafficking Education for Out-of-School Girls
Alongside the SMART Schools Program pilot, the Hope Education Project delivered a targeted three-session program for out-of-school girls and young…
27 March 2025
Hope Education Project: Anti-Trafficking Handouts for Schools in Tamale
At the end of our five-module anti-trafficking education journey, each student received a printed handout to take home, a simple but powerful…
21 March 2025
Hope Education Project Module 5: Theatre-Based Trafficking Education in Tamale Schools
This week marked the delivery of Module 5 in the Hope Education Project pilot – a vibrant and emotional culmination of everything the students have…
12 March 2025
Human Trafficking Education in Ghana: Hope Education Project – Module 4 Theatre Update
This week, we introduced students to Module 4 of our human trafficking education pilot: a powerful shift from classroom learning to creating and…
4 March 2025
Hope Education Project: Online Trafficking and Digital Safety in Ghana – Module 3 Update
In the third week of our human trafficking education pilot program for Ghana, we shifted focus to the digital world with the delivery of Module 3…
18 February 2025
Hope Education Project Delivers Human Trafficking Education in Ghana: Module 2 Update
Following the successful launch of our human trafficking education pilot in Ghana with the delivery of Module 1 last week, we continued this week…
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