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Ending Human Trafficking inPartnership with the Business Community
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What is human trafficking?
Action
Purpose Means
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Recruitment or transporting a person.
Exploitation – forcedlabour, slavery, sexualexploitation.
Violence, coercion, abduction, deception..
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Trafficking for labor exploitation• More than 2,4 million
persons are in forced laboras a result of human trafficking. (ILO 2005)
• Annual profit from human trafficking is at least US$ 32 billion. (ILO 2005)
• „Opportunity cost“ of coercion to the workers affected by such abusive practices, in terms of lost earnings, is US$ 20 billion. ILO 2009)
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The cycle of supply and demandPush factors: Demand for cheap labour force, gaps in labour andmigration laws, travel made easy.
Pull factors: unemployment, poverty, corruption, gender/ethnic/social discrimination
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Women: particularly affected
• Perceived to be suitable for work in labor intensive production with low wages and hazardous working conditions.
• Growing demand for foreign women, including demand for domestic and care-giving work.
• Demand for foreign brides.
• Demand for women in growing multi-billion sex and entertainment industry.
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Why businesses should be concerned ?
NursingCare
Domesticwork
Cleaningservices
Sexindustry
Tourism/Hotels
Restaurants
Food Processing/packaging
Construction
Extraction
Agricultural plantation
Humantrafficking
Human
trafficking
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How human trafficking affect businesses?
Traffickers
Use products & servicesfor illicit purposes
Airlines, shipping, financial facilities
Traffickers
Sub-contractors
Recruitmentagencies
Reputation SalesCostsEx. labour code
violations,lawsuits
Profits
Unfaircompetition
Distortedeconomic
market
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« End Human Trafficking Now! »
Global campaign with business community launched in 2006, inAthens:
• To partner with businesses to eliminate human traffickingworldwide.
• To assist businesses in implementing internal and externalprograms to reduce human trafficking and to increase awareness.
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Benefits of acting against human trafficking
4. To comply to national and international law.
1. To prevent loses by successfully managingrisks and reputation.
5. To fulfil consumer expectations that production respects social and human rights criteria.
6. To build strong relationships with consumers, investors, governmental authorities and local communities.
2. To respect fair and just labour practices that contribute toa healthy labour force and improve productivity.
3. To protect global supply chains.
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Action at the workplace
PREVENTION
IDENTIFICATION
REMEDIAL MEASURES
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Prevention
Adopt orrevise
company policy
Sign agreements orInclude clause in contracts
with sub-contractors& suppliers
Sensitize & trainManagers,
Employees,Sub-contractors
Adopt or revisecode of conductfor employees &sub-contractors
Assess riskswith partners,
i.e. civil society
organizations
Set up monitoring mechanisms
Share experiences& good practices
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Identification
1. Train staff in identification skills
2. Create a reportingmechanism
3. Request auditsand inspections
RED FLAG SIGNSSigns of violence against the worker.Lack of freedom of movement orconfinement in the working place.False promises about types andterms of work.Withholding of passports.Withholding of wages.Excessive overtime.Threats.Debts to pay work, transport, migration fees.Impossibility to leave the job.
Vulnerable groups: migrants, minorities, illiterate & poorworkers, temporary workers, women and children.
RED FLAG SIGNSSigns of violence against the worker.Debts to pay transport and fees to beable to migrate and work.False promises about types andterms of work.Lack of freedom of movement orconfinement in the working place.Withholding of passports.Withholding of wages.Excessive overtime.Threats to worker and family.Impossibility to leave the job.
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Remedial measures:
Remedies
1Victim assistance
Provision of shelter, legal, medical,psychological aid in
collaboration with social services.
2Work opportunities
Ensuring work alternatives, access to victim re-integrationprogramme, skills development
& job training opportunities.
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Action in the community andsociety
Participate incommunity
efforts to addresshuman
trafficking
Empower population
at risk
Awareness raising campaignsPrevention & victim reintegrationprogrammesBuilding shelters, helplines
Training & skill formation programmes, traineeship in companySupport education programmes
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