On 15 November, this month’s roundtable brings to you a screening of the documentary, ‘Forest Brothel’, followed by a discussion on sex trafficking and sex work in Singapore with the film maker, Hani Mohamed, and Project X Programme Coordinator, Vanessa Ho.

Premiered at the ‘Women in the Community: Participative Leadership’ conference in 2012 at Singapore Management University, ‘Forest Brothel: Human Trafficking in a Borderless World’ captures the tragedy of sex slavery and human trafficking.

Project X is an advocacy group for sex workers’ rights in Singapore. The organisation believes that sex work is work, and sex workers’ rights are human rights. Project X provides social and legal support to sex workers, and seeks to end all verbal, physical, emotional, and financial violence against sex workers in Singapore.

Event details:
Date: 15 November
Time: 7:00pm (don’t be late, we will start on the dot!)
Location: AWARE Centre, 5 Dover Crescent, #01-22

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Speakers’ bios:

Hani Mohamed was elected President of ONE (SINGAPORE) in March 2013. She has produced two films: ‘Innocence’, a short film about child trafficking and prostitution in Southeast Asia and ‘Forest Brothel’. She is an Adjunct Lecturer in Media and Mass Communications, and has taught at the Marketing Institute of Singapore, Monash University, and Murdoch University.

Vanessa Ho has been the full-time programme coordinator of Project X since 2011. She believes that if people can speak about sex, gender and sexuality in open and non-judgemental ways, society will become a safe place for everyone. In other words, Vanessa believes that Sex is the Revolution. She is also part of the organising team of SlutWalk Singapore, a movement against victim blaming and slut-shaming.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a closed-door event. Participants must register with their contact details before the event. Registration at the gate will not be accepted.