Buy Responsibly Campaign International Organization for Migration Ms

Buy Responsibly Campaign International Organization for Migration Ms Anastasia Saglam IOM Turkey

ADDRESSING DEMAND According to the recent studies: • 7. 4 mln. persons worldwide are employed in situation of forced and exploited labour • 1. 1 mln. of this people have been trafficked • Trafficking in persons remains the World’s most profitable criminal activity. • No reason to believe that human trafficking is any less prevalent than it was nearly two decades ago *including 76 global and regional IGOs and NGOs and 17 countries

IOM’s four pillar approach PREVENTIO N ROOT CAUSES RESEARCH, DATA GATHERING & ANALYSIS (DATABASE) AWARENESS RAISING PROTECTION ASSISTANCE EMPOWERING VICTIMS HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRED SOUND MIGRATION POLICIES ADDRESS DEMAND FOR THE LABOR OF TRAFFICKED PERSONS (“BUY RESPONSIBLY”); RETURN & REINTEGRATION PROGRAMS PROSECUTIO N COMBATING PHENOMENA CONNECTED: ORGANISED CRIME PARTNERSHI P INSTITUTION & ability BUILDING of GOVERNMENTS, NGOs, IOs & Civil Society • Private sector

ADDRESSING DEMAND IOM has successfully partnered with such companies as: • MTV- awareness raising in the run-up to the World Cup in Germany 2006 • Saatchi&Saatchi – information campaign in Southern Africa, Europe and South America • In south Asia IOM worked with Tata, Taj hotel Group and Lanco to provide trafficked people with skills training, work opportunities and financial support • IOM is also working directly with private recruitment agencies to establish standards that prevent abuse at all stages of migration

ADDRESSING DEMAND Buy Responsibly Campaign aims : • To change consumer behaviour by urging ask“ What’s behind the things we buy? ” and discover the link between everyday products and the exploitative conditions under which these may have been produced by persons being potentially trafficked. • Indirectly, it seeks to get business understand that it’s in its best interest to salf-regulate supply chain. *including 76 global and regional IGOs and NGOs and 17 countries

ADDRESSING DEMAND The campaign launch: • 1 st launch in Brussels on October 19, 2009 • Geneva- on December 18, 2009 • Then launched by IOM Vienna, Warsaw, London • IOM Helsinki, Oslo, Lisbon and Athens are promoting the campaign • IOM Turkey, Istanbul office plans to launch the campaign by the end of this year *including 76 global and regional IGOs and NGOs and 17 countries

ADDRESSING DEMAND Buy Responsibly Campaign targets: • the ‘demand side’ forced and trafficked labour in ‘destination countries’, where exploitation is more likely to occur. • Conscientious consumers- those people who want their purchases to reflect their human values

BUY RESPONSIBLY We Buy, They Pay • Some of the everyday products that you find at your local shopping centre have been produced by people working in sub-human conditions for little or no pay on farms, fishing boats, textile factories and food processing plants. • Buy Responsibly wants to raise consumers' awareness of the fact that the products that we buy everyday may be made by people who have been trafficked forced and exploited labour. • By asking our retailers for more social guarantees on the goods they merchandise, we, as consumers, have the power to end trafficking in persons! • Buy Responsibly: ask your retailer about the products you buy and eliminate trafficking from your shopping cart!

BUY RESPONSIBLY The campaign pursues a specific mission that is aiming at the following: • Raise consumer awareness on human trafficking for labour exploitation and its link to everyday products. • Empower consumer by providing tools to question retailers on the traceability of products. • Establish powerful partnerships with ethical consumer networks to demand trafficked labour free supply chain. • Establish contacts with private sector companies in order to establish a supply chain monitoring system.

Public-Private Sector Collaboration No universally agreed definition of demand but essentially it takes two forms: • That of the traffickers (particularly the end exploiters) whose greed motivates the victimization of vulnerable individuals; and • The demand of the consumer whose demand determines profitability, including companies that buy products from those further down the supply chain.

Public-Private Sector Collaboration With increased economic pressure migrant workers: • Become most vulnerable category of working population • more likely to be subjected to non-payment of wages • less likely to be unionized • Overrepresented in jobs that are dirty, dangerous and difficult • Females workers are disproportionally affected by all these realities

Public-Private Sector Collaboration The following factors make our goal of eradicating trafficking more difficult : • More limited channels for legal migration • Increased xenophobia • Cost sensitive consumers and business

Public-Private Sector Collaboration Four main key areas of action to limit degree to which traffickers are able to exploit migrants’ vulnerability: • Establishing more legal channels of migration • Addressing the demand side of the problem • Importance of public private sector collaboration • Strengthening protection for all migrants

The EU Strategy towards the Eradications of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012 -2016 PRIORITY B: Stepping up the prevention of trafficking in human beings: • Action 1: Understand Reducing Demand • In 2013 Commission will fund research on reducing the demand for and supply of services and goods by victims of trafficking in human beings • Action 2: Promote the establishment of a Private Sector Platform • A European Business Coalition against trafficking in human beings will be established in 2014 • In 2016 the Commission together with Coalition will develop models and guidelines on reducing the demand for services provided by trafficked victims.

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