International recruiter Manpower has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Not For Sale Campaign (NFSC) to help fight against human trafficking and forced labour.

Manpower will be lead sponsor of NFSC’s 2010 ’Stop Paying For Slavery’ tour, a series of day events and community outreach programmes in 40 cities across the world, bringing together educators, business leaders, law enforcement agencies, faith communities and the general public in the fight against human trafficking, while visiting business schools to alert the next generation of leaders to the urgency of the human trafficking problem.

David Arkless, Manpower’s president of corporate and government affairs, says: “Raising awareness and collective understanding of the breadth and impact of modern-day slavery is imperative to ending the scourge. The ’Stop Paying for Slavery’ tour has tremendous potential to arm emerging business leaders with the information they need to end human trafficking for good.”