Edwards says: "It can be challenging for frontline workers regarding the difference between highly sexualised behaviour and sexual exploitation – we run awareness-raising session for health services, school nurses, police and children's centre staff".
The letter also contends that Facebook's rules would prevent EU institutions from running awareness campaigns about the elections on Facebook.
There are also questions over whether the steps outlined by businesses as proof of their efforts to combat slavery – such as running awareness workshops and doing factory audits – are actually achieving anything in practice.
In spring 2015, I was volunteering at a high-altitude rescue post in the Gokyo Valley in the Himalayas, running awareness talks on altitude sickness and providing medical assistance to trekkers and porters.
Last year, several police forces in areas where there is a large Asian community, such as Leicester and Slough, ran awareness campaigns after a spate of opportunistic robberies – there have been several reports of women who have had their gold jewellery snatched in the street – and burglaries.
Pharmaceutical companies and women's health groups across Tanzania are running awareness campaigns to equip Tanzanian pharmacies with misoprostol for PPH.
