Julia Rooke
Julia Rooke is an award winning journalist who started out in British local radio - interviewing circus bears, Druids, and irate farmers in Oxford, England. Of Polish origin, she traveled to Poland in 1990 to report on life after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. After many years working for the BBC, Julia is today a freelance film maker and feisty investigative journalist. She also enjoys baking almond cakes.
Amsterdam research gives insight into U.S. sex trafficking debate
It's just classifieds says Village Voice Media, about adult services ads. That's what many thought in the Netherlands about their red light districts. But when the Dutch realized how many girls had been trafficked into the sex industry they did something about it ...
Unlike Netherlands, U.S. gives no shelter to sex trafficking victims
Hundreds of thousands of American children are being sex trafficked in their own backyard. Yet victims of international human trafficking get more protection in the U.S. than our own residents. Can we take a cue from the Netherlands?...
From Brooklyn to Tehran: the House of Hope
A film maker in Brooklyn uncovers the stories of the House of Hope - an unusual therapy center for women in Teheran ...
Bully Police USA meets Sweden’s anti-bullying Ombudsman
LATITUDE NEWS brings together a leading American advocate for bullied children with Sweden's Representative for Children and Schools....
The father of anti-bullying programs: born in Sweden
How a Scandinavian anti-bullying program is having an impact in the US. LATITUDE NEWS hears exclusively from its founder. ...
Would Phoebe Prince be alive if she had lived in Sweden?
Fifteen year old Yasmine Gustafsson thinks so.Yasmine knows a thing or two about bullying...
