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We support the campaigning efforts of other organisations with similar objectives to our own. Your support for these campaigns is an important contribution towards tackling sex trafficking. Please encourage others to get involved too.
Support Soroptimist Purple Teardrop Campaign
Soroptimist International is running a campaign to end human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls. The campaign:
- Raises awareness among the general public of the plight of women and children who are trafficked
- Suppresses the demand for trafficked women by making men who pay for sex aware that they could be contributing to this trade
- Provides a hotline number so that members of the public can give confidential information on locations where they think trafficked women are being exploited
- Supports the safe houses which provide support and practical care for victims who have been freed from trafficking
Sex trafficking and the 2012 Olympics
We are concerned that traffickers will seek to profit from London's 2012 Olympic Games and would like the UK government to do everything it can to prevent this and reduce the risk to vulnerable women.
We have been working in partnership with other anti-trafficking charities, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Metropolitan Police Service and the Greater London Authority to develop preventative activity prior to the 2012 Games.
We want to see:
- A major public awareness-raising campaign about the causes and consequences of sex trafficking – and its links to prostitution. We want visitors to London to be aware of the UK legislation on paying for sex with coerced individuals and the sexual exploitation of children under 18
- Training for health-workers and other frontline service-providers to ensure:
- Specialist trafficking teams set up at UK ports and airports
- An advice line and training for police, immigration staff, social workers, health workers and other frontline staff so they can support and respond to the needs of victims of trafficking
- The removal of advertising for sex services in newspapers
- Effective enforcement action against those who pay for sex with someone subject to force
Write to your MP (find your MP) asking them to ensure the UK government does everything it can to ensure a safe 2012 Olympic Games – for everyone. Please send a copy of any responses you receive to JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING .
