About

UKC Against Human Trafficking is a student led volunteer group (SLVG), open to students and the public at the University of Kent. With the support of our partners, Kent Community against Trafficking (KCAT) and Stop the Traffik, we campaign, raise awareness and fundraise to stop the trafficking of people in our area and help the victims of this crime as part of the global movement  to end modern-day slavery.

The cobbled streets of Canterbury seem an unlikely scene for a grim industry like human trafficking, but men, women, and children are routinely sold on our doorstep.

Our job is to make sure the local community can spot the signs of trafficking and report the incidents which would normally fall under the radar. In the coming months we will be posting about the taxi driver campaign, which aims to let taxi drivers know when they are ferrying victims of trafficking from A to B. Being so close to the Dover ports, many Kentish taxi drivers may have done this at some point in their lives.

On this website you can find our contact information, our regular meetings, our latest events, awareness and fundraising campaigns, as well as thought-provoking articles that as students we write and research ourselves.

You can visit our facebook page here, our twitter page, or our flickr. Or email us at ukcpeopletraffikfree@gmail.com.

 

 Does Human Trafficking really happen in and through Kent?

People trafficking and a wealthy, picturesque english county in South England aren’t two things that you would expect to go together. Afterall, the myth is that human trafficking, the method of transporting and deceiving people into forced labour and sex-work only happens in India, Cambodia, South Africa. The third forgotten world- far away from our own daily lives. Surely it’s far away from our communities…

I thought so too until i saw this article. (click to zoom)

these articles.

and this article .

These are just some of the cases we know about, but Human Trafficking is an extremely hidden crime.  Therefore, there are many more victims that pass silently through Dover and our hometowns. This means that the criminals manipulating them, violating their freedom, and perpetrating the most vile disregard for human dignity, are never brought to justice.

Our aim is to make Kent a hostile area for traffickers, so that we are the gateway to stopping slavery in and out of the UK, instead of providing a safe haven for it to continue. As a community action group, we want to engage students and the wider population in Canterbury, Kent through awareness, fundraising and campaigning that this is a Global problem, with a local solution.

‘trafficking starts in a community and it will be stopped by the community’

  STOP THE TRAFFIK