LexisNexis raises R130k through Cycle Against Trafficking Challenge

All three NGOs work to combat the scourge of human trafficking, which is a growing reality in South Africa. LexisNexis South Africa publishes its Human Trafficking Awareness Index which shows the prevalence of trafficking forms such as forced labour, sex trafficking and child commercial sexual exploitation (CSEC).

Concluding the Cycle Against Trafficking Challenge in Durban, LexisNexis SA CEO Billy Last said: "This was our way of raising awareness of the heinous crime called human trafficking, and a fitting way of acknowledging the International Organisation for Migration's Human Trafficking Awareness Week from 3 to 10 October. The race finish date also coincided with our annual LN Cares Day, on which our employees volunteer their time and assistance at various anti-trafficking organisations across the country."

LexisNexis South Africa's involvement in the field is anchored by a global commitment to helping to uphold the rule of law. In 2012 the company also released South Africa's first ever Anti-Human Trafficking Legislation Compendium.

About the beneficiaries

Mercy House provides transitional housing for female victims of domestic violence and their children.

The Open Door Crisis Care Centre based in Pinetown, Kwazulu-Natal, is a well-established counselling, training and advisory centre housing an HIV/AIDS clinic, play therapy room for traumatised children, training room, office space and 10 counselling rooms.

Molo Songololo has been working to promote the rights and protection of all children for more than 30 years and in 2,000 released a pioneering report that put the spotlight on trafficking in children in South Africa for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

For more on the fight against trafficking, visit http://www.lexisnexis.co.za/ruleoflaw/.