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Tuesday, 04 December 2007

Amnesty International and Lothian and Borders Police have joined forces to mount a campaign raising awareness about the trafficking of human beings into and around the UK. 

An exhibition describing the lives of those who have been trafficked to work as slaves will be placed at Edinburgh Airport, as points of entry and transport hubs like airports and bus stations have been regularly identified as key areas in the human trafficking process.

Amnesty says that most people trafficked into Scotland are women and children who brought to work in the sex trade or as domestic servants.

Amnesty International campaigner Naomi McAuliffe said:

“It is vitally important that we raise awareness of this trade, we have come across stories of women being bought and sold in the cafes of airport lounges. If frontline workers are aware of the potential of human trafficking and see something suspicious they should raise the alarm. However, awareness raising also needs to be backed up with service provision for those victims of trafficking who are recovered in Scotland. Scotland can take a lead in this as there is some excellent work being done here but provision is currently patchy and under-resourced.

“We need awareness raising not only in this country, but in the countries that people are being taken from. People are tricked, coerced, beaten and intimidated into exploitative work. We also need to address why they are being brought here and why there is a demand for trafficked women and children.”
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