We all love The Body Shop for their all natural products made from ingredients from all around the world, but do you know they are major players against injustices? Yep, that's right. My favorite part is they do multiple campaigns to combat a number of issues including the war against violence in the home and the sex trade.
The Body Shop goes above and beyond your average store in the mall, to provide us with information and insight into the different ethical issues they are fighting. With downloadable PDF's on their website, not to mention you can easily find their "Values & Campaigns" section - I support them, and of course I think you should too.
Below is an excerpt from the PDF file on their campaign to stop sex trafficking:
An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide for sexual exploitation, including for prostitution or the production of sexually abusive images, as well as to be used as cheap labor.1 Among the total victims of the global trafficking of human beings (which is believed to generate billions of US dollars annually), children count for over 20%.2 To some, this may appear as a phenomenon mostly concerning less developed countries, but the fact is, even if many victims may originate from relatively underprivileged areas, these children are trafficked for sexual exploitation in or through virtually all countries in the world to meet the sexual desires of a large number of exploiters and abusers, and financial gain for traffickers.
The world of trafficking is a spider web, and it is even well woven into America - but by raising awareness, and making small decisions to purchase items from companies like The Body Shop, we could possibly save one more child from exposure.
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