Demand reduction is key to ending trafficking - and it's not only about sex trafficking. Sandra Morgan, the Director of the Global Center for Women & Justice and Dave Stachowiak, one of the Center's board members, discuss how child labor trafficking and forced labor show up in many of our purchasing decisions, whether we realize it or not. Sandie & Dave also discuss strategies for how to take action to make a difference in a very complex and challenging environment.
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Transcript
Dave: Your listening to the ending human trafficking podcast this is episode 46. This week’s topic is the knowledge of harms and reduction strategy. Welcome to the ending human trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak

Sandie: and my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave: this is the show where we empower you to be a voice and make a difference. Well greetings to you from the global center of women and justice here at Vanguard University. I am pleased to be back here again with Sandie. Our agenda for today’s show is we are going to be responding to a question from a listener about the California transparency law chain audits that we had originally talked about in episode 17 and one of our listeners had asked what I do if I’m outside of California. So were going to take a look at that today to answer that question were going to look at harms models so Sandie will walk us through that and also are hope today is that we get us all thinking outside the box on some demand reduction strategies particularly around labor trafficking in relation to kids. There’s a lot for us to cover today. It’s important for us to understand so that we can begin to get better perspective. You know we talk about sex trafficking a lot, but labor trafficking is just as big an issue and how can we address that too?

Sandie: Well just to kind of frame this a little it first of all when we talk about demand reduction in Human trafficking well immediately go to the buzz about getting men involve in anti-pornography and demand reduction for sex trafficking and that is an important issue and we have addressed it on this podcast before in order to do so in the last podcast where we interviewed Esther and Camille and they talked about the children and the men and the women who are slaves in coal time mines. Which this mineral is used in my electronic equipment what am I going to do about that. And so it began to kind of bubble in my mind thinking about how do we address demand reduction and the California transparency act did a great job here on helping us learn how to use supply chain audits to create social responsibility, social responsible merchants that means that if they are doing business in this state they have to provide us with a report that will show us they are slave free or the level of possible exploitation that might be involved. The products that are on the shelves of big companies like Wal-Mart, Kmart, and these stores they have this available on the website. You’re not in California and the company you want to shop with doesn’t have it available on the website, what are you going to do. So, I wanted to look demand reduction, we learned a long time ago that with spending more of the household income than men because they tend to be the ones who do the shopping. So how does someone who’s doing shopping how do they factor in Demand reduction strategies into everyday choices to end trafficking?

Dave: And this is big for us because we all can influence through our everyday choices that can be important just as important. It changes our habits and what we consume all of us have these choices.