The December issue of this newsletter highlights the negative ripple effect of the many forms of human trafficking.
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Trafficked Children Need Your HelpA new prayer card is being distributed by Asia Against child Trafficking (Asia ACTs). As well as a Prayer for the Victims of Child Trafficking and a Prayer for the Defenders and Protectors of Child Trafficking victims, the card gives some background on child trafficking and suggestions on how we can work against this.
Jacqui Hennessy, Group Risk Manager of Cotton On says, “The Cotton on Group is very much aware of the issue of forced child labour and other humanitarian exploitation in Uzbekistan and around the globe.
We are strongly committed to our corporate social responsibilities and proactively maintain acceptable working conditions and trade practices. Cotton On Group requires all suppliers throughout China and other manufacturing locations to comply with our Vendor Ethical Code of Conduct. Using this Code Of Conduct, we monitor the supply chain and aim to improve the conditions for workers within out third party factories. For a copy of our Code of Conduct, please visit.” : www. cottonon.com
Government Welcomes FindingsUN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, visited Australia to examine its strategies to combat people trafficking and report back to the UN Commission on Human Rights. She will deliver her report to the United Nations in 2012. Following her visit the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, the Hon Brendan O’Connor MP, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Hon Chris Bowen, and the Minister for the Status of Women, the Hon Kate Ellis MP, released a press statement in which they welcomed the report of the Special Rapporteur.
Join ACRATH members in Western Australia for a special fund raising conference. Courtesy of the WA Opera Soprano Merlyn Quaife and pianist Andrea Katz will perform song cycles of Roger Heagney boased on poetry by Graeme Ellis. Proceed will support ACRATH’s efforts against human trafficking.
In recently released research papers the Australian Institute of Criminology outlines the Pacific Island region’s vulnerability to the crime of trafficking in persons. Click below to download the research papers.
Vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in the Pacific Islands.
Australia’s Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme: Managing vulnerabilities to exploitation
Trading Lives
"In a new country there will be
no slavery & hence no slaves."
Captain Arthur Phillip said this in 1787 before leaving England to become the 1st Governor of the new colony of Australia. Phillip landed at Sydney Cove in 1788 after an 8 month sea voyage.
ACRATH acknowledges and respects the Indigenous Peoples of Australia both past and present.
As caretakers of the land and custodians of the stories their culture has survived for thousands of years and is now recognised as the oldest living culture in the world.
