The TTT initiative brings together the public, private, and civil
sectors to harness the potential power of technology to create solutions
to combat modern slavery across the world.
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tech Tackles Trafficking hosted an event to explore media’s
responsibilities towards mainstreaming modern-day slavery as a topic;
that was moderated by The Anti-Slavery Collective co-founders HRH
Princess Eugenie of York and Julia de Boinville. In 2018, the
Anti-Slavery Collective, Scott Prenn, Stop the Traffik and The McCain
Institute partnered with C5 Capital’s not-for-profit foundation arm, the
Cloud Leadership Centre (CLC) to launch TTT, a multi-sector initiative
between the private, public and civil society that is designed to bring
together non-traditional actors to leverage the full spectrum of each
organisations unique capabilities in the fight against the seemingly
intractable problem of human trafficking.
The event gathered together experts from the fields of social media,
television and film, fashion and media to discuss the impact that the
media can have on driving forwards solutions for modern slavery.
Increasingly, the media is playing a vital role in raising advocacy for
fighting modern slavery and the policy challenges involved with
preventing it. There are an estimated 40.3 million people in modern
slavery around the world. This includes an estimated 10 million
children, 24.9 million people in forced labour, 15.4 million people in
forced marriage and 4.8 million in forced sexual exploitation1.
Discussing the event HRH Princess Eugenie of York commented, “We have to
always remember why we’re doing this, for each and every person in
slavery and for every survivor, we must stand up for them and bring
about change.” Julia de Boinville, her co-founder echoed this, “We
believe that in order to fight modern slavery effectively, we must be
united across all sectors.”
Through a series of events and whitepapers, TTT aims to identify
short-term solutions whilst building a vision for strategic improvements
to address the global human trafficking issue. The initiative will also
identify and create new areas of collaboration and improvement by
bringing together experts from a myriad of fields, such as the legal,
financial, government and non-governmental organisations.
Andre Pienaar, Founder of C5 Capital focused on the critical importance
of building partnerships, “Modern slavery is a very real threat –
partnerships that drive innovation offers an unprecedented opportunity
to tackle trafficking in its tracks. The media in particular has a vital
role to play in raising awareness and keeping policymakers and the
public informed.” Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Chairman of CLC, highlighted,
““Driving a unity of effort across all sectors of society with all new
and emerging tech and communicating clearly across multiple media
platforms is vital to raising the public’s awareness of this terrible
scourge to better counter it as we move forward.”
The Anti-Slavery Collective is an independent collective whose
mission is to bring change-makers, from across all industries, together
to raise awareness for modern slavery as a global epidemic.
Cloud Leadership Centre is the philanthropic arm of the global
venture capital firm that aims to leverage the power of technology
for positive change through philanthropy and policy by convening
and connecting experts in technology with business innovators,
NGOs, Non-Profits, Policymakers and Investors.
Scott Prenn is a strategic fundraising partnership that empowers
organisations to make change.
Stop the Traffik is a pioneer in human trafficking prevention.
Working to unite people around the world by inspiring, informing,
equipping and mobilising communities to; know what human trafficking is,
know how to identify it and know how to respond appropriately if they
saw it.
–ENDS–
Twitter: @c5accelerate
@stopthetraffik
Instagram: @the_anti_slavery_collective // @scottprenn // @stopthetraffik
#techtacklestrafficking
Contacts
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Communications Team
For CLC
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