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Pauline Aweto holds a PhD from the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome, Italy. She has written extensively and contributed to research and publications on gender, including "North African Feminism in the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge. She is also the author of the books, The Sound of Silence, Wartime Rape: African Values at Crossroads, and The Changing Landscape of Christianity in Africa. She is actively involved in the socio-cultural integration of trafficked women in Italy. She was an invited lecturer to the Third University of Rome, Romatre, and was for four years a permanent member of the European Project: Equity and Difference across and within European Countries, Training for a Culture of Difference. She was a Consultant with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) within the Programme of the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration of the Victims of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She lives in London and has two sons, Chris, and Ken, and two granddaughters, Phoenix, and Aurora.