Advocacy is the process of aiming to influence decisions with political, economic and social institutions. In today’s world, advocacy is a complex process of raising awareness of a given social issue whilst empowering those most directly affected by the issue to speak for themselves.
Slavery in the 21st century is one such social issue in need of modern day advocates. Modern slavery occurs when one person has taken away another person’s freedom - their freedom to control their body, their freedom to choose to refuse certain work or to stop working - so that they can be exploited.
Freedom is taken away by threats, violence, coercion, abuse of power and deception.The net result is the person cannot refuse to leave the situation. In this accelerator you will learn what modern slavery looks like through developing a systemic understanding of its occurrence from a supply chain perspective as enabled by wage labour exploitation. Specifically, you will be looking into the issue of human trafficking.
You will be guided through completing one of the following activities as a means of building your skill-sets around modern advocacy.
1. Enable sponsorship of victim owned enterprises and empowerment programs.
2. Fundraise successfully for your preferred charity or local anti-human trafficking organisation partner to help scale their impact
3. Advocate for policy and social change through activism, critical reflection, persuasive writing and raising awareness on issues of injustice using online channels
