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WHO/WHAT IS STOP THE TRAFFIK?
STOP THE TRAFFIK is a growing global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to PREVENT the sale of people, PROTECT the trafficked and PROSECUTE the traffickers. STOP THE TRAFFIK was set up in 2006 to:
Educate: raise awareness and understanding of human trafficking and what can be done about it Advocate: engage with communities and professionals to create an environment where it is harder to traffik, hide and exploit people Fundraise: financing STOP THE TRAFFIK projects and anti-trafficking activities around the world which work with advocates, those vulnerable to and those who have been, trafficked.
STOP THE TRAFFIK now has more than 1000 member organisations in 50 countries and tens of thousands of activists all over the world. When people act, things change.
What is Human Trafficking?
“The greatest and most shameful regrets of history is always about the truth we failed to tell.”
—Haugen 2005
TRAFFICKING IS…
to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude.
TRAFFICKING IS…
where family members and friends deceive parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings.
TRAFFICKING IS…
growing. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to ten jumbo jets every day. a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola.
TRAFFICKING IS…
where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. a person can be sold and trafficked many times.
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