PRESS RELEASES

  • Fears of human trafficking increase after Haiti earthquake
    On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit the Caribbean country of Haiti. [more»]
  • Kraft Foods takes over Cadbury PLC
    On Monday 19th January 2010, Kraft Foods announced that their offer to buy Cadbury had been accepted by the company’s Board. [more»]
  • Nestlé surrender to STOP THE TRAFFIK pressure
    On Monday morning (December 7th) chocolate giant Nestlé UK will finally announce that Kit Kat is to be slavery free or fairly traded from January 2010. [more»]
  • START FREEDOM
    Crossing continents, changing communities and coming to a school near you, START FREEDOM is a campaign designed to engage minds and create action against human trafficking - a crime affecting young people all over the world, every second of every day. [more»]
  • STOP THE TRAFFIK book launched at United Nations New York Headquarters
    Cherie Blair and Steve Chalke both spoke at the US launch of their new book, STOP THE TRAFFIK: People Shouldn’t Be Bought And Sold, at the United Nations headquarters last Thursday (April 30th) in New York. [more»]
  • Mars Capitulate to STOP THE TRAFFIK Chocolate Campaign!
    Stop The Traffik are delighted to announce that only one month into their ‘March on Mars’ campaign, Mars has already committed to ‘certifying its entire cocoa supply by 2020’. [more»]
  • Cherie Blair joins panel of high profile experts
    Cherie Blair and representatives from the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking(UN GIFT) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) came together at a press conference in London yesterday with the founder and CEO of global movement STOP THE TRAFFIK to raise public awareness of people trafficking, the fastest growing crime in the world today.

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  • STOP THE TRAFFIK - A book by Steve Chalke, featuring a chapter by Cherie Blair
    An eye-opening account of the vast scale and cost in human suffering of people trafficking – with practical suggestions about how we can make a positive difference [more»]
  • Cadbury goes Traffik Free!
    STOP THE TRAFFIK campaigners around the world are waking up to the news that in summer 2009 Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bars can be part of their diet. [more»]
  • Hundreds gather for inaugural International People's Lecture on Human Trafficking
    Cherie Booth QC and Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, address special event organised by STOP THE TRAFFIK … [more»]
  • STOP THE TRAFFIK use ban on Oxford street advertising to highlight issue of human traffiking
    The shocking issue of human trafficking is being brought to the attention of Londoners with a dramatic stunt on Oxford Street by the charity STOP THE TRAFFIK … [more»]
  • 20% increase in fair-trade chocolate worldwide
    Royal Verkade, a Dutch subsidiary of United Biscuits, announced last Thursday that they will be using 100% Fair Trade cocoa & sugar in their products from this Autumn onwards … [more»]
  • Clothes, then chickens but what about chocolate?
    Primark and Tesco have suddenly become aware that the public are bothered about who makes their clothes and who picks their food … [more»]
  • 20th February - Chair of STOP THE TRAFFIK Appointed as United Nations Special Advisor
    Following the delivery of the STOP THE TRAFFIK Global Declaration, signed and endorsed by more than 1.5 million people, to the opening session of the United Nations GIFT (Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking) conference in Vienna last week, Steve Chalke MBE has been appointed as the UN.GIFT Special Advisor on Community Action against Human Trafficking … [more>>]
  • 13th February - STOP THE TRAFFIK delivers over 1.5 million declarations to the UN
    Your text message, your signed postcard, your freedom wall, your facebook sign up, your web sign up, your hand raised and commitment ALL COUNT … [more»]
  • 13th February - STOP THE TRAFFIK demands for traffik free chocolate
    STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global coalition of over 1000 member organisations and active in over 50 countries and who delivered over 1.5 million declarations to the UN to call for change on February 13th 2008 … [more»]
  • 21st November - STOP THE TRAFFIK Turns Job Fair Visitors Into Red Light District Prostitutes
    Every year, thousands of young women are tricked into prostitution through the false promise of a better job abroad … [more»]
  • 27th July - Conference calls for urgent action to address link between witchcraft and child trafficking
    A two day conference organised by AFRUCA—Africans Unite Against Child Abuse has ended in London with a call for urgent action to explore the link between the branding of children as witches, child abandonment and the risks of child trafficking with a view to devising better safeguarding mechanisms for vulnerable children … [more»]
  • 24th July - STOP THE TRAFFIK wins new media award
    Winner: Advocacy Award, New Stateman New Media Awards 2007. STOP THE TRAFFIK was recognised for its innovative use of new media at the New Stateman's New Media Awards 2007, held in Westminster Abbey College Gardens on 24th July … [more»]
  • 4th July - STOP THE TRAFFIK features on BBC1's Newsnight
    Anti-Slavery campaigners STOP THE TRAFFIK (STT) have started a nationwide schools campaign to educate children that nearly half of the chocolate in their tuck shop comes from cocoa plantations that use slave labour … [more»]
  • 24th March - 24-7 Prayer supports STOP THE TRAFFIK
    24-7 Prayer (24-7) is partnering STOP THE TRAFFIK (STT) and is committed to encouraging and inspiring people around the world to pray against human trafficking … [more»]
  • 28th February - Cocoa industry can't guarantee Easter without slavery
    Children turned their back on Easter eggs to launch a campaign against child slavery at chocolate manufacturer Nestle's Headquarters … [more»]
  • 28th February - School children demonstrate outside Nestle Headquarters against slave trade chocolate
    Pupils from London schools and youth clubs will be protesting outside Nestle Headquarters to stop the sale of slave trade chocolate … [more»]
  • February 2007 - 'William Wilberforce Freedom Ale' launched by Westerham Brewery Co. to mark the 200th anniversary of Abolition of Slave Trade in England
    The Westerham Brewery is pleased to announce the launch of one of the only Fairtrade beers available on draught … [more>>]
  • 23rd January 2007 - Blair to Sign Convention
    STOP THE TRAFFIK welcomes the formal announcement by Prime Minister Tony Blair that the UK will sign the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings … [more»]
  • 6th November 2006 - STOP THE TRAFFIK Tour
    A multi-media media presentation of the plight of women and children who are victims of human trafficking … [more»]
  • 1st October 2006 - UK Conservative Party Endorses STOP THE TRAFFIK
    Shadow Foreign Secretary and former leader of the Conservative Party, William Hague MP endorsed the Stop the Traffik campaign at a fringe event of the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth … [more»]
  • 26th August 2006 - STOP THE TRAFFIK and Greenbelt
    Tonight on main stage at Greenbelt, Daniel Bedingfield performed an array of his songs including ‘James Dean’, ‘If You're Not The One’ and ‘I'm Never Gonna Leave Your Side’ … [more»]
  • 22nd May 2006 - STOP THE TRAFFIK at the World Cup
    You can help us make a real difference to the lives of up to 40,000 women who could be trafficked to Germany for sex with punters during the World Cup this summer … [more»]
  • 21st March 2006 - Daniel Bedingfield Launches Global Coalition
    Human trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are forced into slavery and is the third largest source of income for organised crime, exceeded only by drugs and arms trafficking ... [more»]