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Advocacy and Awareness Raising Working Group

SDG 8.7

The mandate of the Advocacy and Awareness Raising Working Group is to:

 

  • Facilitate member engagement with and participation at global and regional levels, including the UN human rights mechanisms and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)

 

  • Draw attention to national issues identified by members in international and regional fora

 

  • Identify and Implement priority activities for the Network to hold governments accountable for their international obligations to address contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and human trafficking

 

  • Prioritise and ensure inclusion of survivor voices in advocacy to eradicate contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and human trafficking

Current members of the working group: 

Sally Irwin

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Founder and Managing Director

The Freedom Hub, Australia

Francisca Awah Mbuli

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Founder and CEO 

Survivors' Network Cameroon

Edwin Mugambila

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CEO

Tanzania Relief Initiatives

Michael Luseni

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Executive Director

Economic Empowerment and Human Rights, Sierra Leone

Elizabeth Speller

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Advocacy Director

Its a Penalty, United Kingdom

Jamils Richard Achunji

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Founder/Director

Global Welfare Association, Cameroon

S M Shaikat

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Executive Director

SERAC, Bangladesh

Afasi Komla

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Director of Special Projects

Engage Now Africa, Ghana

Abdul Kemokai

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Executive Director

Defence for Children International, Sierra Leone

Ikape James Ikape

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Program Manager

MeCAHT, Nigeria

Ephraim Chimwaza

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Executive Director

Centre for Social Concern and Development, Malawi 

Erfaan Hussein Babak

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Director

The Awakening, Pakistan

Happy Umurungi

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Project Officer

Hope Iwacu Initiative, Rwanda

Godfrey Mpandikizi

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Executive Director

Tanzania Anti Human Trafficking and Legal Initiatives, Tanzania

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