Human Rights Watch: Stop Child Trafficking in West Africa: Contact legislators

Contact your elected representatives and urge them to condemn all forms of child trafficking. Call on them to increase bilateral aid to programs targeted at abolishing child trafficking and protecting trafficked children.
Contact your country’s embassies in Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Gabon and urge them to increase their support for targeted anti-trafficking initiatives. (http://www.helplinedatabase.com/embassy-database/)
Contact Togo’s president and Minister of Public Health, Promotion of Women and Child Protection. Urge them to make the prevention and prosecution of child trafficking, as well as the protection of trafficked children, a greater priority. Address your correspondence to:

Contact national and international lending agencies and urge them increase financial support for targeted antitrafficking initiatives in West Africa. Call on them to monitor these initiatives to ensure that they meet international human rights standards. Click here for information on contacting international lending agencies.

Urge multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, the International Labor organization and the Economic Community of West African States to strengthen their efforts to combat child trafficking in West Africa. Address your correspondence to:

Read the Human Rights Watch report Borderline Slavery: Child Trafficking in Togo”
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper, condemning child trafficking and urging your government to support antitrafficking efforts
Contact Human Rights Watch for further details about child trafficking
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