This poster is bold and clear, the ear tag resembling the tag on the ear of cattle. The song lyrics are in the background in darker red and in a few languages to show this is is a world issue that we should all be aware of and talking about.
317 ( IV ) Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
Human traffcking in this poster is compared to modern sale advertisement, since that what it is to buyers. It tries to show that people are treated as products.
Human’s life shouldn’t have a price tag. This poster emphasise confinement of a fee that some people are forced to be.
Nowadays internet is a place where most illegal transactions take place. This poster wants to emphasise the electronic means in dealings with human trafficking.
The poster seeks to addresses the main reasons why human trafficking occurs. The people being trafficked become a commodity and thus fall into the background as mere objects, whereas the reasons they are trafficked become more important thus come to the foreground, similar to shopping list, fulfilling ‘customers” desires. This transaction is devoid of feeling, remorse and humanity. It is as cold and calculated as a visit to the supermarket.
In my poster I wanted to represent the hide side of human traffic, by putting the font in the shape of the shadow of the men.
In the foreground you can see a man, naked and striate of shadows, like some part of his body was missing, inspired by the sentence “You can see a mans face but never his heart”
Behind, the words “stop human traffic”, mould the shape of the man’s shadow, to remind people that it is something hidden in the dark and at the same time a sad reality.
Some ridges are placed all over the poster, they are in the shape of the ones on the man’s body and they represent furrows of blood and pain.
The idea is to show the sad situation of those women and girls that for the purpose of of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation are trafficked.This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation.
Human beings are not commodities, and human trafficking is resisted.