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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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