So as it is Fairtrade week I thought I'd raise awareness of an issue that is very close to my heart and that is ending Human trafficking and modern slaver.
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This is a huge and growing problem, 12.3 million people are involved in forced labour worldwide, 2.4 million people as a result of human trafficking, 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked across boundaries each year and it is the second largest source of illegal income worldwide, only beaten by the drug trade and it is growing at a rate where it may well over take drug as the largest source of income.
The main area of exploitation is amongst sex workers, in fact most prostitutes have been illegal trafficked and forced to sell their bodies. Although this mainly occurs to foreign young women trafficked into this country, British girls also get trafficked into prostitution within the uk.
Trafficking isn't just limited to the sex trade though, it is also abundant in the manufacture of the majority of the chocolate we consume, and this is where Fairtrade comes in. Fairtrade chocolate requires the producers to keep a minimum standard of living conditions as well as wages for their workers. This means we can be confident that the workers have not be sold by their parents, are being paid a fair wage, aren't being beaten and have the option to leave their job.
The Stop the Traffik campaign has so far lead to pressure on both Cadbury and Nestle so that now standard dairy milk and Kit Kat are now made with Fairtrade chocolate.
Please look more into this group and other anti trafficking group and consider supporting them. Here are some links
http://www.stopthetraffik.org/
http://www.justiceandcare.com/
http://www.theccat.com/home.html
@arroncohen777
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and there are also a few groups like amnesty and Oxfam that are also doing work on it.
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