Many products bought and sold in Australia may be produced using forced or child labour. Here's a list of actions you can take this Christmas to help fight labour exploitation.
Send our Christmas coupon to a business
Give
cards to businesses you buy from to let them know you want them to stock more ethical products.
Stock your shelves with ethical goods
In the true spirit of Christmas, serve your guests the finest ethical food and drink. The
Ethical Consumer Guide can help you decide what to buy and where to buy it.
Tag your gifts against trafficking
Add a
gift tag and let your friends and family know their present is helping to combat human trafficking.
Give a gift that keeps on giving
World Vision’s
Gifts catalogue has lots of ideas to bring joy to your friends and family, and help create change in the lives of children, families and communities who are in need.
Seasons Tweetings
Update your facebook status and send your twitter followers a message to ask them:
What’s in your stocking? Find out at
http://bit.ly/dBNdsx #donttradelives #worldvisionaus #humantrafficking
Festive Facebook
Use this
image as your profile picture and spread the word to your friends.
Christmas Fairs
Make the Christmas fairs in your local communities truly fair, by hosting an ethical goods stand. If you need information to display,
let us know.
Seasonal celebrations against slavery
Do a good deed this festive season - make your celebrations ethical! Our how-to guide gives you hints and tips about small changes to your party planning that will make a big difference in the fight to end labour exploitation and trafficking.
Help others to shop ethically
Let other people know where they can buy ethical goods in your neighbourhood. Add details of your favourite ethical retailers to
Fairly Local.
Make a Chainstore Reaction
Do the companies you buy from have policies in place ensuring there is no labour exploitation in their supply chains? Visit
Chainstore Reaction to ask them.
Get your MP involved
Your MP can help influence businesses in your local community to address this issue. Encourage your MP to work with business owners to address labour exploitation in their supply chains. For more information download the
Guidelines for Business.