Industry leaders from hospitality, tourism, law enforcement, and non-profits convened to discuss challenges and solutions for combating human trafficking. Key challenges included verifying supply chains are free of slave labor, profiling traffickers without racial bias, and businesses being afraid to publicly support anti-trafficking efforts. Solutions proposed educating the public, passing stronger legislation, punishing employers who create demand, and ensuring companies verify their labor practices are ethical. The group aims to make the travel industry global leaders in raising awareness and eliminating trafficking.

1. #STOPHUMANTRAFFICKING
WHAT THE HOSPITALITY/TOURISM INDUSTRY CAN DO.
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2. Skål International Atlanta, in partnership with
Georgia Tech's One Voice and its Women's
Resource Center, convened industry leaders
to discuss how to stop human trafficking. What
follows are the challenges, solutions and
potential next steps they discussed at the
Human Trafficking Symposium in Atlanta.
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3. Symposium presenters included representatives from the
Atlanta Police Department, Maritz Travel Company, CNN's
The Freedom Project, International Human Trafficking
Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human
Rights, GSU College of Law, ECPAT-USA, Airline
Ambassadors International, Skål International, One Voice
Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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4. TRAFFICKING IS EXPLOITATION
REGARDLESS OF OUTCOME.
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5. More than 800,000 people are
trafficked across international
borders every year.
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6. More than 2 million people fly
in/out of Atlanta every week.
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7. Human trafficking happens
in the shadows.
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8. Human trafficking is the
scourge of the 21st century.
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9. But many businesses are
afraid to stand up and say
"We are supporters of the
anti-trafficking movement."
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10. CHALLENGES
HURDLES TO #STOPHUMANTRAFFICKING
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11. No one wants slave labor in their
supply chain. But whole industries,
like the chocolate industry, can't
independently verify that they don't.
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12. TSA is against profiling, but you have
to if you want to catch traffickers, who
often travel with cash and women
who aren't allowed to talk to anyone.
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13. Hotels are afraid people will think
they have a problem if they speak
about human trafficking or the
anti-trafficking initiatives they have.
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14. There's no punishment for the
employers creating demand for
human trafficking.
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15. Airline Ambassador program
needs more support from
airlines & local law enforcement.
They can only do so much.
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16. Business community has been
cautious to embrace the
cause, although they don't
want to be around the effects.
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17. THE 3 PILLARS WE NEED
1. Address and eliminate the root
causes.
2. Educate the public and raise
awareness.
3. Legislate and prosecute offenders.
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18. SOLUTIONS
AND NEXT STEPS
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19. Safe Harbor/Rachel’s Law (Georgia
Senate Bill 8 and House Bill 244)
passed May 2015 provides better
protection; tougher punishments.
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20. Anti-Trafficking educational proposals
are in front of Georgia school boards
for grades K-12. We need to insist
local boards approve them.
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21. Educate the parents of
young children about the
threat of human trafficking.
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22. Airline Ambassadors is
creating a 24/7 anti-human
trafficking video library for
on-demand learning.
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23. Seek out the people creating the
market for human trafficking and
punish them. Eliminate the demand.
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24. Bookmark websites with
helpful, actionable advice like
secure.enditmovement.com
and ecpat.net.
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25. Educate yourself about difference
between prostitution and human
trafficking.
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26. Learn how to recognize, report
and prevent human trafficking in
your neighborhoods.
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27. Investigate: Does porn create
demand for sex slaves? Is it a root
cause that needs to be addressed?
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28. Raise awareness on college
campuses, where the
trafficked often are hid.
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29. Find a celebrity spokesperson to
raise global awareness & rally
millennials to the cause.
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30. Ensure the companies we work
for and with commit not to use
trafficked labor in workforce or
supply chains.
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31. Educate our customers and
suppliers on how to eliminate
trafficked labor from workforce
and supply chains.
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32. Ensure HR departments train
all employees to recognize,
report and prevent trafficking.
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33. Create a recognizable logo or seal
socially responsible businesses can
display to prove they don't support
trafficking at any level.
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34. Add anti-trafficking organizations to
the list of nonprofits your company
supports on a global level.
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35. Make our industry leaders the
spokespeople for raising
awareness and eliminating
trafficking from travel, tourism &
hospitality industry.
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36. Run anti-human trafficking ad
campaigns on global travel
websites like Expedia.com.
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37. Download resources from
ecpat.net to use as
conversation starters and join a
local anti-trafficking team via
secure.enditmovement.com.
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38. Talk about it often, with
everyone, to raise awareness.
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39. Support local organizations
helping trafficking victims to start
new lives and learn job skills.
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40. Create an app that people
can use to report trafficking
world-wide to local
authorities.
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41. If you tie your Kroger Plus
card to the Women at the
Well Transition Center
(#24180), they'll receive 2%
every time you shop.
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42. #STOPHUMANTRAFFICKING
TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
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43. ABOUT SKALATLANTA.ORG

44. Skål International is a professional organisation
of tourism leaders around the world, promoting
global tourism and friendship. It is the only
international group uniting all branches of the
travel and tourism industry. Its members, the
industry's managers and executives, meet at
local, national, regional and international levels
to discuss and pursue topics of common
interest. Atlanta is one of its largest chapters.
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