Human Trafficking
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PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE BOUGHT AND SOLD
Well, IT MAY HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED, BUT IT STILL GOES ON!
In the USA, in the UK, and in every country in the world, one person is trafficked across borders against their will EVERY MINUTE - that's 2-4 MILLION men, women and children trafficked across borders and within their own country every year.
They are bought, sold and transported into slavery, deceived, and taken against their will, to be used for sexual exploaitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of juman organs, domestic servitude.
Human 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
Human 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.
Human trafficking CAN BE STOPPED- if we all spread the word, do some very simple things- listed below, and join the massive worldwide movement 'STOP THE TRAFFIK' - a growing global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to PREVENT the sale of people, PROTECT the trafficked and PROSECUTE the traffickers
Credit details: details based on content from Stop The Traffik
The nasty facts about chocolate
IS YOUR CHOCOLATE MADE BY CHILDREN IN SLAVERY?
Over a third of the world's chocolate comes from Cote D'Ivoire, Africa. It's highly likely that your favourite chocolate bar comes from here.Thousands of children who pick these beans have been trafficked. They have had their freedom taken away from them and are forced to work long hours on the cocoa plantations without receiving any money for their work.
STOP tHE TRAFFIK has been campaigning for years to get the chocolate industry to stop using child labour.
In 2001 the ICI (International Chocolate Initiative) was set up, and promised to eradicate the worst forms of child labour within the industry, including trafficking, by 2005.
ITS NOW 2009 and WE ARE STILL WAITING.
There are several things we want the chocolate industry to do- Do your bit to pressure on them, and spread the word about what they are doing- and the truth behind your chocolate bars.
This is an easy thing to do- buy only chocolate which displays the Fairtrade logo- shown below.
EMAIL A LETTER TO NESTLE-
Use the links below with letters asking Nestle to confirm or deny that Nestle source from farms using children who are trafficked and forced to work on cocoa plantations in Cote d'Ivoire..
Ask them exactly where their cocoa beans are harvested?
Let them know that as a chocolate consumer you need to know that if you buy Nestle, you are not buying beans from farms using exploitative child labour. .
Letter to Nestle
Children's letter to Nestle
Easter plea to all chocolate lovers
Chocolate egg makers are still using trafficked children and profiting from their misery
THIS EASTER start making small changes to help these child slaves who are working long hours, with no pay, and under unimaginable conditions.
How can we honestly tuck into our chocolate eggs knowing that some child is sufferng for that pleasure?
PLEASE TELL FRIENDS, family, colleagues, strangers about child trafficking in the cocoa industry.
Small changes have been made by the industry, but please dont let them stiop there, and let them believe they have done enough. THEY HAVE NOT!
Let the chocolate industry know you are NOT YET SATISFIED.
Use this link to get posters for you school or office, flyers to print off, addresses to email, and loads more.
Enjoy Easter this year with a clear conscience.
Click on bunny below which will take you to the 'stop the traffik'website- where you can find easy ways to help stop the traffic.
Write to Nestle and tell them you wont eat any easter eggs unless you know they are completely traffic free.
Here's the link for the letter- all you have to do is fill in your own name.
letter to send to nestle
Way Hey! Cadbury's Dairy Milk are now Fair Trade!
Buy Cadbury's Dairy Milk!
Buy the UK's favourite chocolate without guilt now that it's commited to the Fairtrade values!
Make sure it displays the fairtrade logo.
Congratulations Cadbury's! We're very proud of you!
Image credits: 'Cadbury's Chocolate', and Fairtrade'
Which chocolate brands should I choose then?
UK brands to buy
You can choose to only eat chocolate that is guaranteed to be 'Traffik Free' which includes those listed on the STOP THE TRAFFIK Good Chocolate Guides.
To be labelled as fair trade chocolate has to guarantee that no trafficked labour has
been used in its production although it doesn't state it on the wrapper.
SHOPS THAT SELL fair trade:
Asda, Budgens, Co-op, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Somerfield, Tesco, Waitrose.
BRANDS OF CHOCOLATE
Amnestyshop.org.uk
Amnesty Fair Trade Chocolate - Extra Dark
Amnesty Fair Trade Chocolate - Milk
Co-op Own Brand
Co-op Fair Trade Milk Chocolate Bar
Co-op Fair Trade Dark Chocolate Bar
Co-op Fair Trade Crispy Milk Chocolate Bar
Co-op Crispy Milk Chocolate Bar
Co-op Crispy White Chocolate Bar
Co-op Fruit and Nut Milk Chocolate Bar
Co-op Easter Egg
Co-op Hollow Milk Chocolate Easter Hunt Kit
Co-op Truly Irresistible
Co-op Orange Cre Chocolate Bar
Co-op Caramel Filled Milk Chocolate Bar
Co-op Fairtrade Milk Chocolate Speckled Eggs
Co-op Luxury Handfi nished Fairtrade Chocolates
Essential Trading Co-Operative
Fair trade chocolate spread
Green & Black's
Green & Black's Maya Gold Organic Dark Chocolate Bar
Green & Black's Maya Gold Organic Dark Chocolate Bar
Black's Maya Gold Organic Dark Chocolate Easter Egg
Marks and Spencer
M&S Organic Fairtrade Dark Chocolate
M&S Organic Fairtrade Milk Chocolate
M&;S Organic Fairtrade Milk-Almonds Chocolate
Oxfam
Oxfam Gift Wrapped Ballotin of Assorted Belgian Chocolates
Oxfam Gift Box of Sugar Coated Chocolate Mints
Oxfam Gift Wrapped Ballotin of Assorted Belgian Chocolates
Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's Fairtrade Dark Chocolate Organic
Sainsbury's Fairtrade Milk Chocolate Organic
Lidl
Fairglobe
Starbucks
Fairtrade Milk Chocolate Bar, solid bars of chocolate
Fairtrade Dark Chocolate Bar (70% cocoa), solid bars of chocolate
Fairtrade White Chocolate Bar, solid bars of chocolate
The Day Chocolate Company
Divine Dark
Divine Heavenly Milk
Divine Heavenly White
Divine Heavenly Milk Chocolate Coffee
Divine Heavenly Milk Chocolate Hazelnut
Dubble
Dubble Easter Egg and Dubble Bar
Divine Heavenly Milk Chocolate Eggs
Divine Dark Chocolate Easter Egg
Divine After Dinner Mints
Tescos
Tescos Fair Trade Milk
Tescos Fair Trade Dark
Tescos Finest Fairtrade chocolates
Traidcraft Confections
Traidcraft Fair Break Chocolate Coated Wafer Biscuit Bar
Traidcraft Confections Chocolate Mini Eggs
Traidcraft Confections Chocolate Honeycomb
Traidcraft Confections Chocolate Peanuts
Traidcraft Confections Chocolate Brazil Nuts
Traidcraft Fairtrade Chocolates
Venture Foods Ltd
Organica Dark Chocolate Bar
Organica Dark chocolate Bar with Hazelnuts
Organica Dark Chocolate with Cranberries Bar
Waitrose
Waitrose Organic Fairtrade Dark Chocolate
Waitrose Organic Fairtrade Milk Chocolate
Waitrose Organic Fairtrade Milk Chocolate with Broken Hazelnuts
www.stopthetraffi k.org 3
WE DEMAND TRAFFIK FREE CHOCOLATE
There are a number of other independent retailers who produce their own brand of
fair-trade chocolate. Look around your town and see what is available and tell us.
Who sells what at a glance:
Note that products listed may not be available in all stores and this list may be
subject to change.
FEEDBACK AFTER YOUR OWN CHOCOLATE TASTING
Go to www.myspace.com/sttchocolate and tell us your tasting tips.
STOP THE TRAFFIK 1a Kennington Road London SE1 7QP
Asda Divine
Budgens Divine
Co-op Divine/
Dubble
Co-op own
M&S Divine Milk M&S own
Morrisons Traidcraft
Biscuit bar
Sainsburys Divine Milk Traidcraft
Brazil nuts
Green &
Black
Sainsburys
own
Somerfi eld Dubble
Tesco Divine Tesco own Green &
Black
Waitrose Divine/
Dubble
Traidcraft
Biscuit bar
Venture
Foods
Organica
Waitrose own
Global list
Which chocolate to buy worldwide
- US guide to buying fair Trade chocolate
- Where to buy chocolate in the US West Coast-
- Germany-
- Links with information on the right brands to buy in Germany
- France-
- links to information for buying Fair Trade chocolate in France
Send a leter to Nestle at these offices
Nestle have offices worldwide- use the one nearest you to send a card
Get your friends to do the same.
- Nestle UK
- Nestlé UK Ltd
St. George's House
Croydon
CR9 1NR
United Kingdom
clcik on link for their website and email- send a message this way too! - Nestle USA
- Nestlé USA, Inc.
800 North Brand Blvd.
Glendale, CA
91203
United States of America - Nestle France
- Nestlé France
7 Bvd. Pierre Carle
B.P. 900 Noisiel
Marne la Vallée
F - 77446
France - Nestle Germany
- Nestlé Deutschland AG
Nestlé Haus
Lyoner Strasse 23
Frankfurt am Main
D-60528
Germany - Nestle Italy
- Nestlé Italiana S.p.A.
Viale Giulio Richard 5
I-20143 Milano
Italy
Latest News from Nestle
Kit Kat to be Fair trade! It's great- but it's only on the 'four finger' bar- so keep the pressure on them please!
But this good news is only partial. Though Nestlé have bowed to pressure from the STOP THE TRAFFIK campaign to clean up their act, they will also announce that this will only apply to their 'four finger' product. In other words, two finger Kit Kats and all of their other chocolate products will continue to exploit the chocolate slaves of the Ivory Coast from where Nestlé source most of their cocoa.
STOP THE TRAFFIK has learnt that from January 2010 the four finger Kit Kats will be fairtrade and that this will be made public on Monday. However, Nestlé still refuse to budge on their two finger biscuits.
"We welcome the Nestlé announcement. We are relieved for the cocoa farmers and children in Ivory Coast. The surrender of Nestlé demonstrates that by making a simple consumer choice ordinary people can hold multi-nationals to account. Though we understand that it is hard to make all products ethical overnight, we want to see that this is more than a token gesture. So, we intend to keep the pressure on Nestlé until their commitment is global and product wide, like their competitor Mars. No chocolate should have the bitter aftertaste of slavery. Therefore our campaign continues"
(text courtesty of Stop the Traffik)
Stop Human Trafficking
Click on these links and find out more about what you can do
Loads of information here, and more links to downloads, videos,help, to:
PREVENT the sale of people,
PROTECT the trafficked
and PROSECUTE the traffickers
- STOP THE TRAFFIK homepage
- -raise awareness and understanding of human trafficking and what can be done about it
-engage with communities and professionals to create an environment where it is harder to traffik, hide and exploit people
- 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. - Start Freedom
- Take Part in
START FREEDOM
A campaign for young people
A global campaign for schools and young people who will become aware of the issues surrounding human trafficking and realise the power to make a difference. - Add yourself to the Start Freedom Map!
- Sign in first, then drop a pin with a message on your exact location in the world and leave a message.
I've just done it- I'm the only person in Edinburgh so far! What is going on?!- come on! I cannot be the only person in Edinburgh who wants to see an end to human beings being bought and sold.
- add your link NOW!
It can be stopped!
One story from a child that was helped
.PLEASE DO SOMETHING. Even reading this and passing on this website link to your friends is a start-
JUST DO SOMETHING!
MASUD'S STORY
Masud was 12 years old when his parents were tricked
into letting him be taken from his home in Bangladesh to
England. He was trafficked.
He left with an unknown man who travelled with him to
London and then onto the South West where he was
abandoned in an Indian restaurant.
To survive he worked in the restaurants living in small
store rooms, sleeping next to jars of chutney and bags
of onions. Sometimes when there was no work he was
forced to sleep on the streets. He was not able to go to
school and his life was controlled by the
restaurant owners.
When he was 28, with the help of STOP THE TRAFFIK, he
contacted the Home Office and the local police who were
able to help him be reunited with his family
Masud was in slavery in London for 16 years before Stop The Traffik eventually helped hime break free.
His whole childhood was gone.
It's happening all around you, nomatter what country you live in.
Please do something to help today.
Stop The Traffik can make things happen.
Its happening in your own backyard
They are sold into prostitution, and children as young as 4 are sold for sex, and raped -sometimes as much as 20 times a day- EVERY DAY.
Guns can only be sold once, a child can be sold over and over and over.
Human trafficking is the biggest and most profitable ilegal activity after drug trading.
This is the shocking part... IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT HERE.... in the UK, in USA, actually in mostly any country in the world- and on a bigger scale than you could imagine.
Check out this video
Atlanta ranks as one of the highest US cities for child sex trafficking.
START FREEDOM
Young people, take the lead!
Sign up your school / college /club and tell your teachers you want to START FREEDOM!
This is an exciting new campaign ( October 2009) especially for young people to get involved.
" Do something right now!"
Copy and paste this banner to your facebook, bebo, or other social networking site, and SPREAD THE WORD NOW!
go on, do it now, I'll wait for you.
here's the link with the code-just copy the code and paste into your bebo/facebook site:
click here for banner
..and this is the banner you'll get
That wasn't difficult,was it?! You can be proud you've made the first step towards realising the power that you, and young people all over the world have to sop the human trafficking going on every day.
Now, SPREAD THE WORD!!!
(Image credit: Stop the Traffik)
Let us know what you've done!
If you have made any contribution to stopping human trafficking- whether its small or huge- please let everyone know! You should be proud of your efforts and encourage your fellow human beings to do the same.
Leave your name, and what you've done to help stop human slavery here.
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Jul 29, 2010 @ 7:45 am | delete
- Keep up the great work and keep posting... Hopefully you will help cure the world's worst disease; apathy toward humanity.
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http://www.squidoo.com/choke-on-that-chocolate
http://globalguardiansparenting.blogspot.com/2010/04/global-guardians-protecting-all.html
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