Modern Slavery and Human Exploitation
There are an estimated 136,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK. That’s 2.2 people per 1,000.
Together in Sussex works with local communities, Regional Partnerships, and national initiatives to help see those who are trapped in slavery, and support routes to freedom.
Clewer Initiative's upcoming lent resources can be found here
Each week, the course will concentrate on a different form of modern slavery facing women and girls in the UK today.
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Together in Sussex joins with Mothers Union to fight Modern Slavery
Together in Sussex is joining with the Mothers Union to raise awareness of Modern Slavery. The Mothers Union is asking all its members to tell one other person about modern slavery and ask that person to also tell one person.
Victims can be of any age, gender, nationality, and ethnicity. Tricked or threatened into work, they feel unable to leave or report the crime through fear or intimidation. They may not even recognise themselves as a victim.
Modern Slavery is largely invisible unless you know what you are looking for. During October, information, resources and tools can be found on the Together in Sussex website. www.togetherinsussex.org.uk. Working with the Mothers Union we can raise awareness and counter three myths about Modern Slavery:
Modern Slavery: Hidden in Plain Sight. WE SEE YOU, We must continue to SEE YOU. The video speaks for itself unlike the victims of Modern Slavery who have No Voice! Video created by Gareth Roberts for Together in Sussex Modern Slavery awareness campaign.
More than 200 years after the abolition of slavery it is estimated over 45 million men, women, and children are trapped in modern slavery. Archbishop Justin Welby says:
‘William Wilberforce convinced his generation slavery was a sin. That belief has not changed. The sin lies in our ignorance of its existence around us’.
The Clewer Initiative forms part of the Church of England’s approach to eradicating modern slavery. Funded by the Clewer Sisters, an Anglican order of nuns founded in 1852 to help marginalised young women, it provides shelter and teaching a trade.
The Clewer Initiative’s aim is to enable the Church of England dioceses and wider Church networks to develop strategies to detect modern slavery in their communities and provide victim support and care. It works with the Church locally, identifying resources to be utilised, developing partnerships, and creating a wider network of advocates seeking to end modern slavery together.
Nationally, it involves developing a network of practitioners sharing models of best practice and providing evidenced-based data to resource the Church's national engagement with statutory and non-statutory bodies.
The tools to end modern slavery already exist within the local community. The Church, present in all communities and at the heart of many, has a responsibility in leading these efforts. Find out more about Clewer Initiative.
16 days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Day 1
Today is International Day Of Elimination of Violence Against Women
When it comes to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. 71% of victims exploited are women and sadly when it comes to sexual exploitation that figure increases to 99%
This has to stop, we have to do something.
In reading Genesis 1:27, 31 (NLT)
God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God, he created them;
male and female, he created them.
Then God looked over all he had made,
and he saw that it was very good!
We have to care about the issue of violence against women in all its forms because we believe that every single person, whether child or adult, female or male, is made in God’s image and is, therefore, valuable and worthy of dignity. Women are not objects nor commodities. They are precious and valued by God and that is His instruction to each of us to value one another. Our hope through our work with Lichfield and Chichester Diocese Mothers Union and nationally is that we will see women all over the world oppressed, exploited, and abused restored into the fullness of who God created them to be.
Creator God, thank you that we are all made in your image, and equally loved by you. Open our eyes to see your face in those of our sisters and brothers. Amen
If you, your church or community group would like to know more, please contact info@togetherinsussex.org.uk