STUDENTS are to stage a week of campaigning against human trafficking.
Members of the Durham University Stop the Trafficking of People Society will hold the group’s second annual Human Trafficking Awareness Week starting on Monday (February 16).
Professor and author Gary Craig will discuss the recent Modern Day Slavery Bill in room ER153 of the Elvet Riverside building, New Elvet, Durham, on Tuesday (February 17).
A drama titled Asylum Monologues featuring real testimonies from people who were trafficked into the UK will be performed by students on Wednesday (February 18).
Rachel Broughton, from A Way Out, the Stockton-based charity for vulnerable women, will talk on trafficking and prostitution on Thursday (February 19) in the university chemistry building room CG85.
Finally, Xenia Murray, director of Finance Against Trafficking, will discuss eradicating trafficking from supply chains on room ER141 of the Elvet Riverside building on Friday (February 20).
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