Human Trafficking A global problem A local issue

Different stories – common features Masud was 12 years old when he was tricked into leaving his family in Bangladesh with an unknown man. They travelled to England where he was left in an Indian restaurant. To survive he worked in various restaurants and lived in store rooms. He was not allowed to go to school and his life was controlled by the restaurant owners. When he was 28, he contacted the local police who helped him get the right documents to stay in the UK and be reunited with his family. Candy was born in West Africa. At the age of 15, she was sold and brought to the UK where she was held prisoner and forced to work as a prostitute – seeing up to nine men a day. She felt isolated and scared in a country where she was totally alone. Candy stayed in the brothel because she was told that if she tried to leave, her family in Africa would be punished. Candy eventually escaped and found help at the police station. She is now rebuilding her life.

What is human trafficking? MOVEMENT or RECRUITMENT by DECEPTION or FORCE for EXPLOITATION

Trafficking is NOT….. Smuggling

Trafficking: facts and figures Human trafficking makes £700 a second in profit In one day, during 9 – 5 office hours, 480 people will have been trafficked internationally (not including those recruited, moved and exploited within the same country) Every 30 seconds a child is trafficked for sexual exploitation or forced labour Effects every country, everywhere clothes / chocolate / farming / factories / forced street crime including begging and pick pocketing / child soldiers / the sex industry / domestic servants in private houses /

Trafficking and the hospitality industry ‘… the girls were driven around the Midlands to be raped in houses, hotels and B&Bs…’ BBC news ‘Hilton addresses child sex trafficking after China hotel scandal’ USA Today TOP STORIES Looking for signs of human trafficking A tip led detectives to the Knights Inn on Monday. At the hotel, police found a 12-year-old girl who was reported missing from Washington, D.C. last month. “2 trafficked Vietnamese men found working in a major hotel”

“Airline passenger noticed something strange about the man and boy who ran up late to catch a US Airways flight” Reuters Vera: Kidnapped in Albania transported by bus, truck, boat and train until she got to Belgium where she was forced into prostitution STOP THE TRAFFIK book “80% of girls are brought in on Mondays. They arrive on trains from 4 main areas between 3 and 11 in the morning” STOP THE TRAFFIK India Report Trafficking and the transport industry

That's the problem, what’s the solution? ‘ trafficking starts in a community and it will be stopped by the community’ STOP THE TRAFFIK

WHAT CAN YOU DO? [Use the door hangers in your hotel / B&B Put up posters in prominent places] Train staff about human trafficking, how to spot it and how to report it [Take the door hangers to local hotels explain what they are for and why they are important Put up posters and hand out the luggage labels wherever, whenever you can!]