SETTING STANDARDS
Through the creation and implementation of ethical codes with high standards and in the company and its supply chain, the private sector can ensure that their activities do not directly or indirectly encourage or perpetuate trafficking. Compliance with the ethical code should be regularly monitored and continually address the shortcomings found through monitoring. Companies' operations and those of their supply chains should be submitted to third party or second party audits against a reputable standard, such as SA8000. Companies should ask their highest risk suppliers to become certified against such reputable standards or at the very least, agree to be audited against companies' code of conduct.
ETHICAL TRADING INITIATIVES
By forming an alliance of companies, NGOs, and trade unions, efforts can be undertaken to ensure that codes of labor practice are implemented across the supply chain, and good practices are identified and promoted globally.
TRAINING
The private sector has a crucial role to play in training its employees and counterparts on how to identify and approach traffickers and their victims.
RAISING AWARENESS
The tourist sector, for example, can inform policy-makers and the public about trafficking through public-service announcements, in-flight videos, etc. They can inform trafficking victims of their alternatives, human rights, and the judicial process. |
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FUNDRAISING, MARKETING, AND COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT
The entertainment sector and sports sector can assist by raising funds for counter-trafficking initiatives, victim support, and long-term poverty alleviation.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
By donating software or providing technical support, the telecommunications sector can assist law enforcement in tracking victims and traffickers.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
The private sector can play a role in eradicating crime syndicates. For example, the transport sector can adopt special screening mechanisms to detect illegal transport of human beings.
SOCIAL REINTEGRATION
The private sector can train or employ former trafficking victims and provide skills, mentoring, and internship programs.
LONG-TERM PREVENTION
Through microcredit schemes, poverty-alleviation, and economic-empowerment initiatives, the private sector can provide social protection to vulnerable groups and direct attention and funding to the underlying causes of trafficking.
WATCHDOG
The media can play a central role in monitoring the activities of national governments to ensure that their activities conform to their international obligations. |
