POTENT Issue #2 - The Women's Issue
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services, brothels, strip clubs, pimp<br />
controlled prostitution on the street<br />
and on the Internet.<br />
Use/Request for Fair Trade<br />
products:<br />
Fair Trade products are just that.<br />
Fair. From far-away farms to your<br />
shopping cart, products that bear<br />
the logo “Fair Trade” come from<br />
farmers and workers who are<br />
paid fairly and not in forced labor<br />
with no compensation for their<br />
work. According to Fair Trade<br />
USA, much of the Caribbean is a<br />
part of the 70 developing countries<br />
across the world that provide Fair<br />
Trade Certified products and help<br />
farmers in developing countries<br />
build sustainable businesses<br />
that positively influence their<br />
communities. Search for fair trade<br />
products at your local stores and<br />
you can even request for Fair Trade<br />
products if you do not see them. At<br />
the website www.slaveryfootprint.<br />
com you can also take a quiz and<br />
learn how many slaves work for you<br />
based on your daily habits and the<br />
type of products you use.<br />
Teach, Advocate, Fundraise:<br />
Anyone can be trafficked regardless<br />
of class, age, gender or education<br />
and one of the best ways to help<br />
inform others and urge government<br />
officials to pass better laws to convict<br />
human trafficking felons is to teach<br />
your community about the facts of<br />
human trafficking. Organizations<br />
such as UNICEF and International<br />
Justice Mission provide information<br />
and descriptions of their efforts to stop<br />
human trafficking in the Caribbean<br />
that you can teach family members,<br />
co-workers, and other fellow<br />
Caribbean citizens about.<br />
Change happens when enough people<br />
come together and speak up for social<br />
justice. Awareness and action are the<br />
ways in which we will begin to stop<br />
this silent crime of the Caribbean.<br />
<strong>POTENT</strong> Magazine | TWENTY-SIX