Kids: For Sale Now on a Corner Near You

Known as much for their pioneering of human rights and environmental issues as their beauty products, The Body Shop’s latest campaign aims to help stop the sex trafficking of children and young people. Every year an estimated 1.8 million child victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation or cheap labor. I only recently learned of this shocking fact at a documentary screening hosted by the Body Shop of Playground. 

A pervasive epidemic worldwide, the commercial child sex industry is thriving— human trafficking is the third largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world (after drugs and guns) but with awareness and support, this horrific trade can be stopped. The Body Shop will donate 60% of your purchase of Soft Hands Kind Heart Hand Cream to ECPAT to help stop sex trafficking of children and young people around the world.

For further information on this issue and how you can help, visit TheBodyShop.com/Stop. We hope you'll get involved in this worthy cause— the future of the future is in your well moisturized hands.

— Claire

Comments

[Huguette E.]

Thanks is so shocking and awful!! Good for The Body shop for making people aware and giving back!

[Valerie]

Thank you for the link. Not only as a mom, but, as a human being I'm horrified by what these criminals do. I'm adding this cause to the ones I'm involved with!

[Julie]

I am so sickened and saddened by human trafficking. The people who do this, I just do not understand...Thank you for posting about this and the link to The Body shop. I've always been impressed by how the Body Shop helps people.