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Your text message, your signed postcard, your freedom wall, your facebook sign up, your web sign up, your hand raised and commitment ALL COUNT.
OUR VOICES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WERE HEARD
The million mattered
Your million signatures will make a difference to what can be done to:
- Prevent the sale of people
- Protect the victims
- Prosecute the traffickers
Following the delivery of the Declaration in the opening session of the United Nations GIFT conference in Vienna, Steve Chalke, Chair of STT, has been appointed as the UN.GIFT Special Advisor on Community Action against Human Trafficking by the United Nations Office for Drug's and Crime.
This appoint is part of a new relationship that will see STOP THE TRAFFIK working with UNODC to produce resources for and connections to grass roots communities around the world as well as providing research about trafficking in goods and product supply chains.
It is an appointment which is simply a symbol of the power for change that 1.5 million voices in unison have created.
Alongside the delivery of the Declaration STOP THE TRAFFIK launched a Global Fund to fight people trafficking. This major fund will finance projects on the ground on a regional basis, helping NGOs to network together to make the biggest impact possible across the whole of a trafficking route. It is a fund for major donors, but also for ordinary people to be able to raise money and know that it is being used to the maximum effect.
Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, expressed his enthusiasm the work of STOP THE TRAFFIK "I believe that the STOP THE TRAFFIK Coalition has the potential to provide significant impetus to the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking".
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STOP THE TRAFFIK & UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL INITATIVE TO FIGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING (GIFT)
STT will provide UNODC with:
- The establishment of the Friends of GIFT (individuals across the globe)
- The production of community resources
- Connections to grass roots constituency
- Linkage between UNODC and consumers
- A vehicle for distribution of messages
- A vehicle for listening to the views and interests of grass roots
- Raw data from consumers for substantive research on supply chains
- The popularisation of the messages for a grass roots audience eg. books, dvds, curriculum resources for schools etc.
UNODC will provide STT with:
- The endorsement of UN GIFT through Steve Chalke's appointment (chair of Stop the Traffik coalition) as 'UN.GIFT Special Advisor on Community Action against Human Trafficking'
- Involvement in the process of turning research on trafficking in goods and product supply chains into action
- The endorsement and assistance of UNODC offices around the world
- The establishment of a forum where STOP THE TRAFFIK can regularly present the feedback from the Friends of UN.GIFT directly to the leadership of UN.GIFT
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