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What You Can Do to Help Combat Human Trafficking

Awaken • Feb 11, 2019

Human trafficking is not an issue that should be taken lightly, and it isn’t something that can only be handled by the authorities. Anyone can contribute to helping to fight against human trafficking, including:

Organizations

Businesses can play a part by providing jobs, internships, training programs, and other opportunities to trafficking victims.

College Students

Students can join forces by joining or establishing a university club to raise awareness regarding the issue of human trafficking in the local community. Just choosing a topic relating to human trafficking on one of their papers can make a difference! Students can also call for human trafficking to have a bigger part in university curricula to raise more awareness.

Health Care Professionals

Health care providers should be more aware and observant when it comes to pinpointing signs of human trafficking victims. With the help from anti-trafficking organizations, you can help the victims by offering them low-cost or free services.

Reporters

Nothing is more powerful than the power of the media when it comes to shaping perceptions and raising awareness. There are a lot of ways people in the media industry can do to shed some light on human trafficking, especially those who are journalists or reporters. For example, journalists can write more articles about the impact of human trafficking on victims and survivors.

Lawyers

Attorneys can provide human trafficking victims legal services that they need, especially issues regarding their immigration status.

These are only a few examples of how people across sectors can help to fight against human trafficking. Below are some of the most effective things that anyone, including you, can do to help:

1. You should become aware of the indicators of human trafficking so that you can identify a potential victim when you see one. There are human trafficking awareness training programs that are available for everyone to participate in.

2. If you live in the United States and you are convinced that someone may be a trafficking victim, do not hesitate to report your suspicions to the authorities. Call 911 or the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Hotline line at 1-888-373-7888.

3. Be more conscious of your slavery footprint. If possible, before you go out and buy new clothes, check that they are not the product of human trafficking. You can check out the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor for more information. You can also encourage businesses to take some action to look into possible signs of human trafficking in their supply chains.

4. Volunteer and join anti-trafficking movements in your local community.

5. Arrange a meeting or write to your local, state, and federal government officials to show them that the issue of human trafficking should not be tolerated and more actions need to be taken. Also, ask them what they are doing right now to combat the problem.

6. Host an event in your local community to watch and analyze films that address human trafficking. You can also watch a documentary about sex trafficking, child slavery, and many other topics that will shed light on the issue. Check out CNN’s Freedom Project for more information about different kinds of human trafficking in different countries.

7. Organize a fundraiser and give all the proceeds to an anti-trafficking organization.

8. Speak with your local schools to include modern slavery in their curricula so that students and teachers will be more conscious of the matter. This is very important as students are often the targets of human traffickers.

9. Make sure that you’re always informed and up-to-date about the current news of human trafficking by setting up a web alert.

10. Partner up with your local religious community to help put a stop to human trafficking by spreading awareness.

You may think that you can’t do much against human trafficking, but that isn’t true. Even you can make a difference just by raising awareness and showing victims that you’re willing to help. Imagine – if you were in their shoes, you would need all the support you could get, wouldn’t you?

The effort to change the world has to start with us taking notice of these issues and coming together to solve them. For more information regarding human trafficking in Nevada , get in touch with us today to learn more about what you can do to be a part of the movement to better our society and the rest of the world.

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