Take action for Anti-Slavery Day 2011
How you can help
Support ECPAT UK’s call for guardianship for child victims of trafficking by emailing your MP. Ask him/her to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 513 on guardianship as well as to write to the Minister for Children and Families, Tim Loughton MP, to explain in more detail why the Government should introduce a system of guardianship.
Background to Anti-Slavery Day
In February 2010, the Anti-Slavery Day Bill was introduced in Parliament as a Private Members’ Bill by the then Conservative MP Anthony Steen, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Women and Children (now the APPG on Human Trafficking).
The Bill passed through all its stages in the House of Commons and House of Lords in a matter of weeks and became law (Anti-Slavery Day Act 2010), just before the 2010 General Election.
In July last year, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that Anti-Slavery Day would fall on 18 October every year. This date coincides with the European Union’s Anti-Trafficking Day.
Aim of Anti-Slavery Day
The aim of Anti-Slavery Day is for people in the UK to acknowledge that, despite the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade more than 200 years ago, men, women and children continue to be victims of the modern-day slave trade. The day helps to raise awareness of the dangers of modern-day slavery, including human trafficking and exploitation, and encourages people to be proactive in the fight against it.
ECPAT UK believes that Anti-Slavery Day provides a great opportunity to shine a light on a largely hidden and brutal crime of human trafficking being committed against children in the UK and overseas today.
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