Designers/Illustrators: Hertfordshire needs you!
The indefatigable talents of STOP THE TRAFFIK supporters have never been in doubt. You’ve performed, you’ve drawn, you’ve sung, you’ve painted, you’ve baked, you’ve filmed, you’ve danced. You’ve even taken to writing poetry lately, with equal aplomb. STOP THE TRAFFIK is working alongside Hertfordshire Anti-Trafficking Board to develop a thorough human trafficking awareness campaign across … Read more
Freedom means escape and an education
I’ve just visited one of the projects your money supports through Freedom Ticket for Life; Children on the Edge’s project in Mae Sot in Thailand on the border with Burma. Burma has been under military rule for many years and different ethnic groups have been under attack ever since (the military is literally trying to … Read more
Bitter Sweet update on Chocolate…
Hey Everyone! Here’s an update on what’s currently happening in Europe around the chocolate industry, thanks to Antoinie, STOP THE TRAFFIK Netherlands: Last week Thursday, Tulane University published their latest report on trafficking and the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa industry of West Africa. The findings were shocking, to say the least. … Read more
Love Running, UK
There was a “Bristol 10K” run that took place on Sunday May 9th, 2010. Remarkably, over 10,000 people ran that day, 500 of who formed a special team called “Love Running”. Love Running (http://www.woodlandschurch.net/love-running) was set up by the Woodland’s Church in Bristol. Their major aim was quite literally seeing love running through their communities … Read more
Deadly weapon-humble bar
Today I’d like to summarise some of a great speech by Thomas Horton of Oasis Academy Immingham. I found it inspirational and hope you do to. Here goes: “Chemical. Nuclear. Biological. These are all weapons that we hear about but today I want to talk to you about one of the world’s deadliest weapons…that many people … Read more
FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM Success!
As part of a Freedom Festival on 17 July 2010, organizers in Worthing held a back garden party, where they laid on some live music, invited friends and neighbours, sold drinks and cakes to raise money, and used STOP THE TRAFFIK materials to raise awareness in their community! 34 adults and 9 children attended the … Read more
Oasis Youth Theatre continue to WOW Audiences & the UN!
All England winners Lord’s Hill OASIS YOUTH THEATRE wowed the audience at their performance of One Million to…STOP THE TRAFFIK in London’s Oasis centre on Monday night in front of UN representative Sandra Kozeschnik and Iman Sidky of the Suzanne Mubarak International Women’s International Peace Movement! Directed by Mark Wheeler, the play profiles the issue of human … Read more
STOP THE TRAFFIK with Liz Fisher: 400 miles- 40 days!
Hi Everybody! I’d like to give a shout out to the lovely Liz Fisher who is cycling/walking to raise money for STOP THE TRAFFIK! Liz’s goals? £400 by doing 400 miles in 40 days! She began on May 31st and hopes to finish in July in time for her birthday! Here is Liz’s Justgiving page … Read more
Take a STAND with the International Orchestra for Freedom
Time to FREE your ears and others with the sound of Tchaikovsky and Beetoven this summer! The International Orchestra for Freedom is a force for International social change. The voice of a generation of talent are using their magic to mobalize people to STOP THE TRAFFIK! Join them for their debut performance at 7:30pm on … Read more
Oasis Youth Theatre Crowned at All England Festival
Based at Oasis Academy Lord’s Hill in Southampton, Oasis Youth Theatre scooped the top prize at the weekend’s All-England Theatre Festival, beating more than 100 productions from around the country. They will go on to represent the nation at the British final in Scotland later this month with their performance of One Million to STOP … Read more
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS in NORWICH causing a scene
Students in Norwich have given a dramatic twist to their campaign to bring a halt to the evil trade of human trafficking. To capture the attention of city centre shoppers, students from the University of East Anglia organised “flash mobs” – sudden, unexpected street dances, which took place in and outside Topshop- they also put … Read more
Celebrating Traffik-Free Chocolate in Spanish
La asociación Esclavitud XXI, con el fin de desarrollar la campaña de Stop the Traffik por un chocolate más justo, ha colgado en su página web (www.esclavitudxxi.org) una serie de recursos en castellano como pueden ser un libro de recetas buenísimas para preparar con chocolate de comercio justo, datos reales sobre la industria del chocolate, … Read more
Massive Thank You
A big big THANK YOU, MERCI, DANK U to Niels who is running the 20k Marathon in Brussels on the 30th May for STOP THE TRAFFIK! The whole STOP THE TRAFFIK team wish you the best of luck, and happy training.
Chocolate Film by STOP THE TRAFFIK Belgium
What better place to talk about chocolate than Belgium? STOP THE TRAFFIK visited schools around the country with the chocolate story and a camera. This film shows how young people responded to our questions: what can I do and what should the government do to stop the traffik? Is er een betere plaats dan België … Read more
Wonderful People
At STOP THE TRAFFIK we’d just like to say a Super Huge Enormous THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who are raising money and helping our campaigns grow. To me, running, jumping, walking, skipping for more than 5 minutes seems impossible; so to all you fantastic and brave people doing these things for STOP THE … Read more
Sam’s START FREEDOM Adventure
Hey all, Well I’m sad to say that today is my last day at STOP THE TRAFFIK, so this will be my last blog post. The experience here in the office; and being actively involved with the Start Freedom campaign has been amazing! I’ve enjoyed so much about the campaign. Helping the schools in Bromley, … Read more
Australia: We love Traffik- Free Dairy Milk
I just bought my first australian cadbury fairtrade chocolate!! It feels very sweet especially after cadbury told me two and a half years ago that our chocolate campaign would go away after a while! So, so nice Paul Mergard STOP THE TRAFFIK Australia
Freeom Week: What’s happening in Kyrgyzstan
If you’ve been following the Freedom Week news, you’ll know we’ve had amazing events happening across 4 continents to celebrate Start Freedom. OASIS Kyrgyzstan let us know the exciting things they’ve been doing to raise awareness where they are. For the occasion of START FREEDOM week, Oasis Kyrgyzstan produced some brand new, great-looking, informative brochures warning … Read more
Freedom Week: What’s Happening Around the World
Premiering tomorrow is the fantastic One Million to STOP THE TRAFFIK play by the Oasis Youth Theatre in Lord’s Hill. You can read more about the play, and an interview with one of the actresses here. This play is exactly what STOP THE TRAFFIK is all about, young people being creative and raising awareness … Read more
Grassroots Greatness
So, because we at STOP THE TRAFFIK love activism and campaigning against trafficking more than almost anything (except perhaps traffik-free Galaxy chocolate), we just had to share news of some fantastic work being done by one of our supporters in Ipswich. Ben has been busy raising awareness about trafficking and getting it on the local … Read more
Eat those Galaxies
Brilliant news everyone!! We’re super excited in the office today as we have just seen our first Rainforest Alliance certified Galaxy bar. A fantastic first step- Mars have kept their promise and brought us Rainforest Alliance Galaxy in 2010 in the UK. Now we just have to make sure they keep their commitment to make … Read more
Global Chocolate Campaign
I’m always surprised to see how many amazing anti-trafficking blogs there are. I try and read as many as I can and connect with activists from all over the world. There are so many interesting things to learn and really exciting campaigns happening to end modern-day slavery in its many forms. At STOP THE TRAFFIK … Read more
Classical Music + Anti-trafficking = An Unbeatable Evening Out
Morning all, just a quick note to brighten up your Thursday with news of a fantastic event being held by one of our supporters in Scotland. Rev. John Carswell has organized a concert to raise awareness and funds for STOP THE TRAFFIK. It’s taking place on Saturday 20th February at 7pm at the Cadzow Parish … Read more
Sam’s START FREEDOM adventure part 4!
Whoop! It’s almost February which means the Bishop Justus Start Freedom event is almost upon us. Unfortunately we have had to delay but all is well as it gives us more time to prepare and make the event better! The national Start Freedom campaign however is all going very well. We have schools adapting their … Read more
Secret Diary writer on the telly!
Good day everybody! It’s been a long time since my last entry in the (not so) Secret Diary of a STOP THE TRAFFIK Worker series. That’s because my rocking intern Georgia is so good at pretty much everything, I have left her largely in charge. A while ago we were phoned by Al Jazeera (who … Read more
SECRET DIARY WRITER: Rapping Nestles knuckles with wrappers
Hi everybody! It’s CHOCOLATE WEEK! We are being encouraged to eat and bath and rub ourselves with chocolate this week. I say, YEEEHA, sounds like fun. Let’s do it but make sure it’s FAIR TRADE. I have an idea though that you should save your fair trade wrappers, write a little note on the back … Read more
Oh the life of an intern
Hello and good afternoon to all of our avid blog readers! I’m a new intern at STOP THE TRAFFIK and here is a conversation I just had with our regular blog poster: Regular blog writer (in slightly demanding voice); “write a blog post” Me; “on what?” Regular blog writer; “whatever” So here you go! I … Read more
SECRET DIARY WRITER shares her writing
I had to write a piece for a girls teen magazine so thought I’d share it with you…. Trading lives How much does it cost to buy a new summer dress? How much do you think it would cost to buy the person making the dress? Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Surely you can’t buy … Read more
Secret diary of a STOP THE TRAFFIK worker
Hello everybody! I have been silent. Not because I am a naturally quiet person, oh no. Rather because I have been busy with our new interns (who I am looking at right now – both of which are fantastic). I had a super weekend basking (like a cat) in the sun. In between slapping on … Read more
Shaking Up Law Students
My name is Claudia and I have just finished a legal internship with STOP THE TRAFFIK. Before I head back to the States, I want to leave you my thoughts… About 7 months ago, I asked myself “What is human trafficking” and the answer was difficult to come by. Was I supposed to be ashamed … Read more
