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EmpowerMen Project. March 14, 2024.

EmpowerMen Project
Engaging Men and Boys to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People.

March 14 (Thursday), 2024 – 11:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. MDT and CST / 2:00 p.m. EST / 3 p.m. Atlantic Time.

This webinar will be 1.5 hours.

The EmpowerMen Project started in 2022 and focuses on engaging men and boys to prevent sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of women, girls and gender-diverse people. Men create most of the demand for paid sexual services and exploitation, yet very little attention is focused on this group. Through consultations with survivors, professionals and men, we created an intersectional approach for the education field, social services, police, business and civil society.

The EmpowerMen Project believes that this will lead to increased safety and wellbeing for women and girls and reduce the exploitation because of less sex purchases. It will also increase the understanding amongst men and boys on the impact of the sex industry on everybody involved, including themselves. 

The workshop will highlight:

  • The role of sex buyers - who are mostly men - in exploitation and trafficking
  • Reasons why men buy sex
  • Social, legal and other community responses to the demand of paid sexual services
  • Information of the EmpowerMen Project and their activities

Watch Webinar Recording Here


Speaker

Hennes Doltze

Hennes Doltze

Hennes leads the EmpowerMen Project (MaMaWi Centre), in Winnipeg, Manitoba with a focus on engaging men to prevent sexual exploitation and trafficking. He has a degree in social work and not-profit management and has worked in different positions in Canada and Germany in the mental health field, child welfare and criminal justice. He has worked with many men in a sex buyer accountability and domestic violence programming. He has seen many men make positive changes when given the space to explore their reasons and the impact to buy sexual acts. Hennes regularly presents at trainings for law-enforcement, social services and educators on sex buyers and the harm they cause to women and girls. He speaks internationally at conferences for intimate partner violence and sexual exploitation.