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Sex Trafficking: A Resource Guide

Sex Trafficking Conference Accomplishments

From RIPPLE: NC Human Trafficking Task Force Training Manual

Resource Links

• Polaris Project

  Polaris Project's vision is for a world without slavery. Named after the North Star that guided slaves towards freedom along the Underground Railroad, Polaris Project has been providing a comprehensive and community-based approach to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery since 2002.

• International Office of Migration (IOM)

  IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As the leading international organization for migration, IOM acts with its partners in the international community to assist in meeting the growing operational challenges of migration management, advance understanding of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants.

• The Emancipation Network

  T.E.N. CHARITIES: a local & international response to the human rights emergency of human trafficking. The Emancipation Network (T.E.N.) was founded to provide immediate help to survivors, high risk women, & anti-trafficking agencies, & also to be part of creating a critical mass of abolitionists in the US who can participate in efforts to eradicate slavery once and for all.

• Veronica's Voice

  VERONICA'S Voice: Dedicated to human rights ands social change for American victims of commercial sexual exploitation without voices. Our mission is to connect adults used in prostitution and sexually exploited youth to encourage, educate and empower them to make lifestyle changes, which lead to recovery of their mind, body and spirit.

• International Justice Mission

  Sex trafficking will endure as long as it remains a profitable criminal enterprise. By freeing victims and prosecuting their perpetrators, IJM operations increase the risk and decrease the profitability of trafficking.
  
  IJM works to combat sex trafficking in India, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. In the 10 years since the organization's founding, IJM investigations have resulted in freedom for hundreds of children and women held by force in the commercial sex trade.

• Body and Sold

  BODY&SOLD is creating a network of theaters and social agencies, who, acting together, will raise the national consciousness about the intertwined issues of child abuse, runaways, and child prostitution

• Captive Daughters

  Captive Daughters is a non-profit organization committed to ending the exploitative practice of sex trafficking, with a particular focus on girls and women. Our goal is to educate the public about this practice affecting over 800,000-900,000 humans each year, in almost every country. We invite you to learn more about trafficking, what we're doing to help strengthen the anti-trafficking movement and to help in ultimately ending this assault on the basic human rights of women & children.

• Shared Hope

  Shared Hope International exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. We are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.

• Free the Slaves

  Free the Slaves liberates slaves around the world, helps them rebuild their lives and researches real world solutions to eradicate slavery forever. We use world class research and compelling stories from the frontlines of slavery to convince the powerful and the powerless that we can end slavery.
  
  We must end slavery.

• The Protection Project

  The goal of the Protection Project is to research and document the global scope of the problem of trafficking in persons and, through the dissemination of relevant and timely information, to influence policy and practice in the war against trafficking.

• Human Trafficking.org

  The purpose of this Web site is to bring Government and NGOs in the East Asia and Pacific together to cooperate and learn from each other's experiences in their efforts to combat human trafficking. This Web site has country-specific information such as national laws and action plans and contact information on useful governmental agencies. It also has a description of NGO activities in different countries and their contact information.

• UNICEF

  UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We work in 191 countries through country programs and National Committees. We are UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.

• Vital Voices

  Vital Voices is working to raise awareness about trafficking in women and girls to assist victims sold into slavery in the United States, and training women leaders around the world to fight trafficking in their own countries.

• Equality Now

  Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women around the world. Working with national human rights organizations and individual activists, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses. Through its Women's Action Network of concerned groups and individuals around the world, Equality Now:
  
  

  • Distributes information about human rights violations
  • Takes action to protest these violations
  • Brings public attention to human rights violations against women

• Global Fund for Women

  The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice. We advocate for and defend women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.

• Not For Sale Campaign

  Not For Sale is a campaign of individuals, musicians, artists, people of faith, businesses, schools, and sports teams united to stop modern day slavery.

• STOP THE TRAFFIK

  STOP THE TRAFFIK, is a global coalition of organisations working together to fight against people trafficking; by raising awareness on a subject that is little known or understood.

• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

  The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-International (CATW) is a non-governmental organization that promotes women's human rights by working internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms.

• INTERPOL

  INTERPOL aims to end the abuse and exploitation of human beings for financial gain. Women from developing countries and young children all over the world are especially vulnerable to trafficking, smuggling or sexual exploitation.

• HHS Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking

  The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

• United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre

  The aim of the UK Human Trafficking Centre is to increase knowledge and understanding of human trafficking amongst police and partner agencies, as well as raise awareness of the issue and encourage the public to come forward with information.

• The Office for Victims of Crime, United States Department of Justice

  The mission of OVC is to enhance the Nation's capacity to assist crime victims and to provide leadership in changing attitudes, policies, and practices to promote justice and healing for all victims.






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