Campaigning on real issues through major sporting events - Birmingham 2022 In June 2022, Geoff Thompson MBE DL, Deputy Chair of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, launched It’s a Penalty’s Birmingham 2022 Campaign with a keynote address. Here he shares his reflections on the successful completion

Modern Slavery: A Commonwealth-Wide and Global Crisis With the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games’ taking place earlier this Summer, and as our Birmingham Campaign coming to close, we are taking the time to reflect on the work that needs to be done in order to address human trafficking

How does exploitation relate to missing? It’s a Penalty and Missing People are honoured to partner during It’s a Penalty’s Birmingham Campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking and people who have gone missing in the West Midlands and therefore may be at risk of exploitation.  How

Birmingham 2022: The multiplex reasons behind running a campaign during a Major Sporting Event As the 2022 Commonwealth Games kicks off in Birmingham, at It’s a Penalty, we’ve also launched our latest human trafficking prevention campaign! Our awareness-raising campaigns run in the lead-up-to and during major sporting

CHOGM 2022: Working Together to Protect Children from Violence This week, from 19 to 25 June, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. Heads of State from across the Commonwealth are gathering to reaffirm their common values and agree on actions to improve the

The Power of Sporting Events in the Fight Against Human Trafficking Traffickers often see sporting events as an opportunity. We need to educate people on how to recognise the signs of exploitation and what to do when they see them.Human trafficking is defined as the exploitation of people through forced

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Reality of Human Trafficking & Exploitation in Japan “As reported over the past five years, human traffickers subject Japanese and foreign men and women to forced labor and sex trafficking, and they subject Japanese children to sex trafficking”- U.S. Department of State, Trafficking In Persons

The Importance of Working with Major Sporting Events to Prevent Human Trafficking THE LINK BETWEEN MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKINGIn recent years, enormous amounts of media attention have been directed at the link between major sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, the Olympic & Paralympic Games and the

A Survivor’s Story: Sam At It’s a Penalty, we believe in the importance of listening to and learning from the stories of human trafficking survivors in order to inform our response and efforts to bring this evil industry to an end. During our live expert panel at the end of

Commonwealth-Wide Acknowledgement of the Pandemic’s Impact on Child Safety It’s a Penalty welcomes the recent statement from the Commonwealth regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its global consequences. We are encouraged that the Commonwealth acknowledges the significant impact that the pandemic will have on the lives of children throughout the Commonwealth