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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

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