Avasara

03/06/2016

Avasara is Kicking off the semester with Paint Night!

Join us in creating paintings for the Freedom Now Campaign.

This event will be Wednesday, March 9th, at 6 PM at the Macaulay building (35 W 67th Street).

At this event, we will be creating human trafficking themed art to share in the international art exhibit, Freedom Now, to help raise awareness for human trafficking.

100 schools around the world will be participating to promote education and awareness regarding human trafficking. Guria, an anti-human-trafficking organization based in Varanasi, India, is organizing the campaign.

Refreshments and snacks will be served!!

Can't wait to see you all there!

11/28/2015

Avasara is having it's second meeting of the semester THIS Tuesday, December 1st at 5:45 PM, at 137 E. 25th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenue) in room 308 (it's Baruch's annex building, across from the Vertical Campus and next to the library). Dessert will be served, and all are welcome!!

The focus of the meeting will be making posters with trafficking statistics and then using them as a powerful educational tool. We hope to see you all there!

Avasara is CUNY’s new Human Rights Club. Our focus is on education, advocacy, and fundraising to stop human trafficking locally, in NYC, and globally.

10/21/2015

FIRST MEETING OF THIS SEMESTER:
Tuesday, October 27th!
College: The 23rd Street building- 9th floor Honors lounge
Food will be served. Everyone is welcome!

05/07/2015

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05/06/2015

Yesterday's panel: "The Psychology of Victimization" was absolutely wonderful! Big thanks to our panelists and all who came out!

03/24/2015

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02/06/2015

12/12/2014

Thank you to everyone who came to our event on Tuesday! It was a huge success! We heard from our panelists about how a long process of victimization leads youth to be homeless, and become very at-risk for s*xual exploitation and human trafficking. It was a somber, but inspiring evening.

12/07/2014

Our event, Homelessness: A Pipeline to Human Trafficking for LGBT Youth will be on December 9th at 6:30pm at the Macaulay Honors College. The event is free and open to the public. The panel will be followed by catered dinner. We look forward to seeing you there! — at Macaulay Honors College.

12/03/2014

Avasara is a huge fan of Guria, an anti-human trafficking organization in India. Help make their job easier by signing this petition to help end police corruption.

BREAKING NEWS: Guria just submitted over TWO THOUSAND pages of evidence documenting police misconduct in 100 cases of S*x Trafficking, Child Prostitution, and R**e!

A Times of India article was published about it here: http://goo.gl/UcGSkv

And, JOIN GURIA IN DEMANDING THIS POLICE MISCONDUCT END! SIGN OUR PETITION! >> http://goo.gl/c9RvrO

This February, Guria released the original report revealing this misconduct, and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh ordered an inquiry into the matter. We spent months assembling all the official evidence before submitting the 2000+ pages last week!

Here is a link to our original report http://goo.gl/tAqz9G, and here is the original article the Times of India posted about it. http://goo.gl/gfoUQ4

12/01/2014

Our event, Homelessness: A Pipeline to Human Trafficking for LGBT Youth will be on December 9th at 6:30pm at the Macaulay Honors College. The event is free and open to the public. The panel will be followed by catered dinner. We look forward to seeing you there!

11/25/2014

Trafficking can happen ANYWHERE, even a Florida high school
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-student-led-high-school-prostitution-ring-27160122

A 17-year-old recruited fellow high school students for a prostitution ring and coordinated deals on social media, charging $50 to $100 in cash and alcohol, police in Florida said. The teen is charged with felony human trafficking after a Friday arrest in Venice, near Sarasota on Florida's...