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YOUR ROLE IN STOPPING SLAVERY
As a Professional/ Business
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Circulate awareness
emails around office.
Add ACRATH as the official charity for your company.
Donate funds to specific elements of trafficking.
Put links for ACRATH on your company website. |
As a Student
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Make the issue
of human trafficking into a topic for your assignment/
thesis.
Organise and support fundraising and awareness events.
Put a link to ACRATH on your myspace, facebook and other
social networking sites.
Start a group that focuses on bringing awareness of slavery
and trafficking to your peers and local community.
Inform and warn friends.
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As a School/ Tertiary Institute
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Get as many student
groups as possible to work together and put on an event
to raise awareness at your college campus.
Start a petition on your college campus to help pressure
the government to allocate resources to stop slavery and
trafficking.
Make posters to spread throughout your college, and student
accommodation. |
As a Church
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Create an easily
accessible facility to outreach to victims of this atrocity.
Have your youth group sponsor an event that will raise
awareness of slavery and trafficking.
Incorporate prayers for the fight against slavery and
trafficking into your worship services.
Encourage parishioners to raise awareness about these
issues in their work and home lives. |
As a Parent
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Spread awareness
amongst parents groups e.g. www.mothersforothers.com
Raise awareness amongst your children so they can do the
same amongst their friends.
Ask a local bookstore, coffee shop or your children’s
school to put up posters raising awareness.
Petition your children’s schools to create events
raising awareness and funds for these issues. |
For Any Community Member
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Report any supicious
activity or people that may seem to be involved in human
trafficking
Email the website link to all your friends, family, co-workers
and invite them to discuss ideas in the forum.
Write a letter to your local mayor/ State Premier asking
him/her to involve your city in the fight to end slavery
and trafficking.
Call your local travel agents and inform them of the issue
so that they can be aware of and prevent potential predators
from taking trips by signing the ECPAT Code of Conduct.
Write your local MP and encourage him/her to fight for
more money to go towards ending slavery and trafficking.
Help start, promote and support a walk-a-thon in your
city to raise money and awareness. |
As an Enforcer of the Law
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Raise awareness
in your department and encourage other officers to take
action in the fight against slavery and trafficking.
Campaign for an anti-slavery/anti-trafficking taskforce
to be formulated to combat these atrocities.
Educate yourself about the tell tale signs of this criminal
activity so that you’re aware of it and notice it
when it is occurring in your precinct.
Respond don’t judge. |
As a Film Maker
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Seek funding
from the government for the production of feature films
that will raise awareness.
Seek out screenplays dealing with this topic.
Create short films raising awareness that can be circulated
through youtube and social networking sites. |
As a Musician
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Put an awareness
sticker on your guitar case.
Write songs raising awareness and perform them.
Promote access to the ACRATH website at gigs. |
As a Nurse
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Set up a respite
clinic in a neighbourhood with brothels specifically to
treat women working in brothels.
Volunteer time at a refuge center.
Train other women overseas to become skilled migrants. |
As a Lawyer
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Take on the case
of a victim of trafficking.
Be prepared to prosecute traffickers.
Better inform yourself and colleagues about the laws surrounding
these issues. |
As a Priest
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Incorporate these
issues into your homily.
Organise specific prayer services for victims of trafficking.
As many trafficking victims come from countries with Catholic
foundations, they may be seeking refuge in your church……Keep
and eye out for them! |
As a Consecrated Religious
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Join ACRATH!
Organise prayer meetings for victims of trafficking.
Formulate and circulate postcards for awareness throughout
your community. |
As a Victim [pre rescue]
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Seek refuge and
counselling through contacts found on the ACRATH website.
Go to the police with your truth
Go to your local Church |
As a Victim [post rescue]
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Write to your
local news station asking them to cover your experience.
Reach out to others with similar experiences and encourage
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THINGS YOU CAN DO
→ Take ACRATH's Survey..
→ Take APC slavery quiz..
Listing of slave free products..
Action Alert: Oxfam Australia
Tackle poverty by holding
your own Coffee Break
Action Alert: Taking Action Against Human Trafficking
Join CBIS and encourage hotels to take action to fight the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Download a letter to bring to hotels here, or cut and paste the text of the letter here.
Read the full story here..
Let the Chainstores know
how you Feel!!
Chain store reaction is an open letter to the producers of your
favorite products. We are asking them to promise to investigate
slavery in their product chains and to clean it up where they
find it. Only you can start a chain store reaction. It starts
with a simple request.
• chainstorereaction.com
Critical Mass
Sign up for Critical Mass and be ready to act. When an opportunity
comes for you to act will text you instructions for a specific
action you can take within 24 hours to fight the global slave
trade.
• criticalmassaction.com
Be a Witness - Go to Court
Your presence will be felt!! |
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