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Trafficking in human beings our responsibility
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Introduction

• Trafficking in human beings is the responsibility
  of all of us
• Three meanings of responsibility
• Four levels of social change
• Root causes of trafficking
• Responsibilities and actions to prevent and
  combat trafficking

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Definition of trafficking

• Palermo Protocol (2000) first agreed definition
  obligation to implement nationally
• Three elements
• Recruitment, transfer, harbouring, or receipt
• Threat or use of force, other forms of coercion,
  abduction, fraud, deception, the abuse of power
  or of vulnerability, giving or receiving payments
  or benefits to achieve consent
• Having control over another person for the
  purpose of exploitation, including at a minimum
  sexual exploitation, forced labour or services,
  slavery or similar practices, servitude or the
  removal of organs

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Trafficking for forced labour

• Cases in UK and all across Europe as well as
  worldwide
• Exploitation due to demand for cheap labour while
  restricting permits
• Restrictive and complex migration regimes
• Large list of industries and nationalities

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Responsibility and social change

• E1 It wasnt me (who harmed or trafficked human
  beings)
• E2 It happens over there (it is nothing to do
  with people like me)
• E3 I cant do anything to stop it (I have no
  impact on these events)
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Types of responsibility

• R1 Responsibility as guilt direct causation
  through actively harming
• R2 Responsibility as beneficiary contributing to
  harmful practice
• R3 Responsibility as fellow human beings having
  the means to create change

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Correlated duties

• D1 Stop, accept punishment, contribute to
  compensation, apologise
• D2 Stop benefiting personally stop the practice
  assist the harmed
• D3 Create alternative practices, systems,
  institutions

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Forms of social change

• Smiling at your neighbour
• Mopping up the spills of an unjust social
  practice
• Changing laws
• Working for transformation of society

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Root causes of trafficking

• Discrimination in countries of origin
• Unfavourable circumstances in countries of origin
• Discrimination and unfavourable circumstances in
  country to destination

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Discrimination in country of origin

• Racism and ethnic discrimination
• Sexism/patriarchy
• Discrimination of single mothers
• Discrimination of young people and children

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Unfavourable circumstances in home country

• Conflict and peace keeping missions
• Poverty/unequal opportunity

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Discrimination and unfavourable circumstances in
destination country

• Restrictive and complex migration regimes
• Restrictive and complex labour regimes

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Taking responsibility

• Being friendly to migrants and their families
• Mopping up the spills of the migration system
• Campaigning to change the law
• Transformation of society

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Conclusions

• To combat trafficking we all need to take
  responsibility for what we do to harm others,
  what we accept in our daily lives while others
  are exploited, and where we can help to prevent
  harm.
• Trafficking is not an isolated practice by
  distant scrupulous bad people it is caused by
  the inequality in the world and restrictive and
  complex migration and labour regimes.
• There are different levels of changing the world.
  All have the chance to do something on a level
  that make sense in our circumstances.
• This may be giving priority to fair trade
  shopping, organising our church to support local
  migrants and their families, campaigning for more
  emphasis on human rights or reflecting on the
  meaning of hospitality and borders of
  nation-states.