Reports of unethical conditions for workers making Olympic mascots
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CNN’s Freedom Project- Chocolate’s Child Slaves.

CNN’s Chocolate’s Child Slaves debuts tonight at 8pm as part of their Freedom Project.  They are dedicated to continuing to expose trafficking in the chocolate industry. We have been working with them on this, and Antonie from STOP THE TRAFFIK is speaking on the panel as part of the live section of the show so watch it! … Read more

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TRAFFIKED! Sophie Hayes talks to ITV’s This Morning

Today is the day! Sophie Hayes shares her personal story of trafficking live on     ITV’s this morning at 11.30.  Please watch and support her! We think it is amazing and brave that she has decided to tell her story so people know that this can happen to anybody, anywhere. Bex Keer from STOP … Read more

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CNN’s Chocolate’s Child Slaves- Oasis Academy sum it up.

Privileged! Not a word we necessarily associate with trafficking in the Chocolate industry, but for an Oasis Academy student in South London, that’s exactly how she felt when she learned that thousands of children are trafficked into the Ivory Coast and harvest the beans that go into making our chocolate. In just an hour the … Read more

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Keep your New Years Resolution – Give a Freedom Ticket for Life.

Broken your New Year’s resolution yet? Well if you have you’re probably not the only one. Apparently 17th January is officially the day that everybody breaks their New Year’s resolutions. It’s hard to drum up the energy to set off into the cold dark night on a run or go to a sweaty, over-crowded gym… … Read more

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NEW Community Roadshows for 2012!

Last year we kicked off our community roadshows and what a few months we’ve had! We travelled all over the country and delivered 7 roadshows in Sussex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, West Midlands, and London.  Over 500 people came along to find out about human trafficking, how it affects their area and what they can do to … Read more

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‘Trafficked’ Sophie’s personal story of being trafficked from the UK

It was a December, and a normal day in the STOP THE TRAFFIK office. I remember I was sitting next to my colleague and engrossed in some task or other when the phone rang, another distraction! I picked it up and started to talk to the woman on the other end of the phone. She said … Read more

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New Anti-Trafficking Film to be Released!

“Every year, an estimated 2,000,000 children are commercially sexually exploited… … 500,000 of these children are in India” (Freedom Firm). Ben Stamper’s new film, Horse and Rider: Freedom for the Daugthers of India, tells the remarkable true story about about two victims of trafficking in India and their road to freedom and recovery. The film … Read more

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Christmas Chocolate News!

GOOD NEWS just in time for Christmas! Tomorrow the Scottish Parliament will be debating child trafficking in the chocolate industry. The debate is entitled “10 Years on from Harkin-Engel, child trafficking in the chocolate industry” and is to be led by SNP MSP Jim Eadie. You can watch live coverage of the debate here. This … Read more

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Calling all Volunteers in the South of England

Are you in the south of England? Yes? Then listen up… If you’ve missed out on our community roadshows this year then come and seek out STOP THE TRAFFIK at the International Christian Resources Exhibition in Exeter, January 2012, where we are putting on a series of workshops to raise awareness about human trafficking.  Here … Read more

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Volunteer with STOP THE TRAFFIK at the Olympics!

VOLUNTEER AT THE OLYMPICS Olympic fever is officially underway… Up and down the country emails are flooding into inboxes delivering the exciting news: “You have been selected to be a torch-bearer during next year’s Olympic Games!” Excitingly, STOP THE TRAFFIK’s trustee, Duncan Parker, is one of the deserving (and incredibly lucky) 8,000 who will carry … Read more

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