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TAKE ACTION !
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Take Action 1 - Campaign!
Campaign locally – noticing and reporting Look for the signs to see if there is any possibility of trafficking in your locality and report anything suspicious. You may think it can’t happen but one member of the Open Horizon group learnt that a trafficked woman had been found in her small residential close during multi-agency operation Pentameter 2 in 2008. The Blue Blindfold website has informationas does a poster on the UNODC site and Stop the Traffik has a tool kit for Active Communities against Trafficking (ACT) and information for business travellers. Campaign locally – challenging attitudes You may want to take up a related issue that concerns you or your group. For example do you find clothing for children that is over-sexualised? Could you draw this to the attention of the store managers or their head offices? Are you aware of sales of pirate DVDs in pubs or other venues near you – do purchasers need to be made aware of possible links to trafficking? Campaign nationally Keep your eye open for issues that potentially have an impact on trafficking. For example Kalayaan are concerned that migrant domestic workers (mdws) employed by diplomats are not entitled to change employers outside the diplomatic mission with which they entered the UK. In cases where the worker is abused or exploited it is unrealistic to expect them to leave and find employment within the same mission. This leaves diplomatic mdws especially vulnerable to abuse. Join Stop the Traffik’s campaign to ensure chocolate is not grown on plantations utilising trafficked children. Cadbury’s have already committed to this, but others need persuading. In the meantime only eat chocolate produced by fair trade organisations such as Divine. Consider linked issues – for example advertising that degrades human beings or leads to false aspirations or gender assumptions. Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority. See other areas of this website for other issues-based campaigns such as violence against women or the arms trade. Campaign internationally Join the UN Blue Heart campaign and 'wear' the blue heart logo on your facebook page or website.
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