World Day Against Trafficking In Persons, July 30th.

GWENDOLYN DOWNING 7/22/221:47 PM

July 30^th is the “World day against trafficking in persons”, #EndHumanTrafficking. This year the UN’s theme for the day is “Use and abuse of technology”, focusing on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. You can read more about that and the day here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/endht/index.html

While I recognize the work of the UN, as child advocates, it’s important we keep all of that is involved and needed in mind, as we simultaneously work to reach those who need us now and to keep any others from needing us the same way. Before I share some steps for that, let’s focus for a moment on child trafficking.

Examples of what child trafficking can include:

- sex trafficking and child sexual abuse materials

- forced marriage

- illegal adoptions

- forced criminal activities

- forced fighting

- forced labor, commercial and domestic

- removal of organs

- forced begging

- forced illicit activities

- benefit fraud

Things we know:

-Children/youth/young adults who are marginalized, discriminated against, oppressed, so on, are at higher risk; this includes what we are seeing with the environment/climate impact.

- We are accountable to every child/youth/young adult; and whatever we do for/with them is part of us taking care of ourselves.

So, what are some steps we should take?

At the end of this post, I share some free national and international sources for training, technical assistance, information, or/and materials for Child Human Trafficking. Here I want to share two images as an intro about my Connect All initiative and curriculum, that shows how we can address child human trafficking, both from its root and as part of our daily self-care. You can learn more about Connect All here: https://www.connectall.online/

Some free sources of training, technical assistance, information, or/and materials for Child Human Trafficking:

The National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center https://nhttac.acf.hhs.gov/home “Provides free training and technical assistance (TA) to build the capacity of health care, behavioral health, public health, and social services professionals, organizations, and communities that serve individuals who are currently experiencing, are at risk of experiencing, or have experienced human trafficking and their families. Our technical assistance takes a public health approach, focusing on preventing and reducing trafficking.”

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Page for National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month; includes “a list of resources for children, teens, parents and caregivers, educators, child welfare and juvenile justice professionals, and mental health providers.” https://www.nctsn.org/resource...ing-prevention-month

International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children: https://www.icmec.org/

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: https://www.missingkids.org/HOME

Polaris: https://polarisproject.org/

And while not a direct source, the Whitehouse Jan 25, 2022 FACT SHEET: President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...loitive%20conditions

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Frank Sterle Jr.Member

Tragically, it’s as though some people, however precious their souls, can be consciously/subconsciously perceived and treated by a large swath of an otherwise free, democratic and relatively civilized society as though those people are somehow disposable and, by extension, their suffering is somehow less worthy of external concern. Perhaps it’s something similar to how human smugglers perceive their cargo when choosing that most immoral line of business.

Albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, there also is an inhumane devaluation by external-nation [usually of the Western world] attitudes toward the daily civilian lives lost in devastatingly long-drawn-out war zones and famine-stricken nations: the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers. Often enough, those people will eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. ...

Furthermore, through the countless online comments, one sees how often migrants and even refugees are callously criticized with presumptions they’ll become permanent burdens on their new host/home nation. But then that no longer matters when the migrants die in their attempt at achieving sanctuary, be it ‘economic’ or actual life-saving refuge.

Often overlooked by their critics is that many migrants are leaving global-warming-related chronic crop failures in the southern hemisphere widely believed to be related to the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, beginning with the Industrial Revolution. While some global refugee situations may not be climate-change related, many land- and water-based border-guard confrontations increasingly in the news are nonetheless scary — and even unbecoming of Western self-professed Christian nations. (Jesus must be spinning.)

7/26/223:13 PM

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