A Christian minister, who is also a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, has joined two survivors of Mohamed Al Fayed to launch a new campaign calling for stronger action against human trafficking and exploitation.
Hope Beryl-Green, an ordained minister in the US, who was signed over to Epstein as a five-year-old, has joined British survivors Jen Mills and Lindsay Mason to launch the group STAND (Survivors Together Advocating for New Legislation and Delivery of Justice).
The survivor-led campaign is being launched in the UK on Wednesday, with the three women speaking at a Parliamentary Roundtable in Westminster.
Beryl-Green campaigns internationally on trafficking prevention, survivor recovery, child protection and legislative change. Her work also focuses on faith-based healing following trauma and exploitation.
Her second book, From Hell to Hope, published in August, explores trafficking prevention, survivor recovery and community responsibility, drawing on her own experience of exploitation.
Mills and Mason are survivors of Mohamed Al Fayed and co-chairs of Justice for Fayed & Harrods Survivors. Their work with STAND focuses on wider issues surrounding trafficking, exploitation and systemic reform.
The Parliamentary Roundtable will examine barriers to accountability and what more can be done to ensure people with wealth, power or influence cannot avoid scrutiny.
The campaign has called for improvements to the way grooming, coercion and exploitation are recognised, as well as stronger investigations, prosecutions and greater accountability for those who facilitate or enable offending.
It has also called for meaningful, trauma-informed support for victims and survivors.
The Rt Hon Dame Karen Bradley DBE MP said: “It is so important to hear from the brave survivors of human trafficking like Hope, Jen and Lindsay. It is only by hearing their stories that we can even begin to understand how much victims suffer at the hands of evil perpetrators and use that knowledge to develop policy and support system.”
During Beryl-Green's UK visit, Mills and Mason will also host a private reception bringing her together with women from the Fayed survivor community.
