New Website for Stop Traffick! Project

Published: Thursday, April 04, 2013

The Immigrant Council of Ireland's launched a new website for its EC ISEC funded Stop Traffick! Project. http://www.stoptraffick.ie/

STOP Traffick! is a transnational project on reduction in demand for the sexual services of victims of trafficking. This project will explore different attitudes of buyers and potential buyers to human trafficking, its context and impact in order to inform demand reduction awareness raising initiatives, implemented through a partnership of civil society, public and private enterprises. The programme will target employers to pilot the demand reduction strategy as part of their corporate responsibility.

The programme will aim to develop a strategy, leading to the development of a toolkit of products and activities to raise awareness among buyers and potential buyers of services delivered by human trafficking victims in the sex industry, in order to reduce demand for purchase of sexual services. The toolkit and awareness activities will be informed by research on men's attitude to buying sex in some of the participating member states and further informed by case studies documenting the experience of women and girls who are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.