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Honouring All Mothers
Celebrate Your Mum This Mother’s Day and Honour the Mothers Who Make Your Purchase Possible! This Mother’s Day, let us take a moment to remember the mothers worldwide whose labour enables us to purchase the gifts we give to those we love. From the garment makers making, cocoa bean farmers to service workers these mothers…
Read MoreAdvocacy Success
ACRATH celebrates milestone advocacy success. ACRATH has hailed the Federal Government’s Budget decision to offer victims andsurvivors of human trafficking the opportunity to access support without involvement withlaw enforcement, as a momentous achievement. It comes after a 17 year battle byACRATH. Before last night’s announcement, a trafficking victim’s ability to access the Support forTrafficked People…
Read MoreHearts Were Stirred into Action
Hearts were stirred into Action at the 2023 Annual ACRATH Gathering held 3rd May, 2023 . ACRATH was thrilled to see so many familiar faces in attendance and new ones from around the globe as together we explored the causes and impact of human trafficking. Thank you to all our guest speakers, including Fr Khalid Marogi of the Australian Catholic…
Read MoreWhat Has Changed?
It is now 10 years since the Rana Plaza disaster. On 24th April 2013 over 1,000 garment workers were killed and thousands more were injured when the building they were working in collapsed. Labels of well known brands surfaced in the rubble of the building. A few months later Baptist World Aid released its first…
Read MoreForced Marriage is Family Violence
A recent Monash University report, Forced Marriage as a Form of Family Violence in Victoria, highlights the fact that recognising forced marriage as a form of family violence can lead to better support for victim-survivors. Victoria is the only state in Australia that has recognised forced mariage a family violence in law. The study explores…
Read MoreRemembering Rana Plaza
2023 marks 10 years since the terrible tragedy at the Rana Plaza in Dhaka, Bangladesh, when an eight-story building collapsed, killing 1132 people and injuring 2500. Most of the dead and injured were poorly paid female garment makers, producing many of the clothes that end up in Australia. Since then some of the big brand companies have…
Read MoreStop Trafficking! April 2023
The 2022 UN Global Report on Trafficking in Persons was recently released. The latest edition of Stop Trafficking! summarizes the finding of this report. Aricles include: Download your copy of the April edition of Stop Trafficking! here.
Read More2023 Chocolate Scorecard
The Fourth Edition of the Chocolate Scorecard is now available! Approximately 95% of the chocolate industry is captured by the Chocolate Scorecard. These account for 95% of global chocolate products, Easter eggs among them, and include giants such as Mars, Lindt, Nestlé, Mondelēz (Cadbury), Ferrero and Hershey. The 2023 edition of the Chocolate Scorecrad also…
Read MoreACRATH Newsletter – March 2023
The latest ACRATH Newsletter is now available. It feature the latest news in Human Trafficking and within ACRATH. The newsletter also gives details on how to register for the ACRATH National Gathering to be held on 3rd May 2023. Click here to download a copy of the Newsletter and find out how you can get…
Read MoreHearts Stirred to Action
Hearts Stirred to Action: The Call of the Human Face of trafficking ACRATH warmly invites you to join us as together we learn and explore causes and impact of human trafficking. This online event will take place on Wednesday 3 May 2023, online via Zoom Please register to attend this event via TryBooking https://www.trybooking.com/CGYNM
Read MoreMinister Urges MPs to Go Slavery-Free
Victoria’s Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has urged all Members of Parliament to make their electorate offices slavery-free, starting with tea, coffee and chocolate. “I am certain that no one in this place wants to drink beverages where there’s slave labour in the supply chains that bring them to us. It’s a simple and small action…
Read MoreForced Marriage Going Forward
It’s a decade since the passing of the legislation, criminalising forced marriage in Australia. It was a significant achievement after many years of advocacy by ACRATH and others. The then Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney General Mark Dreyfus announced the law on International Women’s Day 2013. A recent event at Parliament House marking the…
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