Trafficking in Persons
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Trafficking in Persons - Related Resources

This section contains examples of nationally recognized agencies and organizations that provide services or information.

Anti-Slavery International (ASI)
ASI promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices and freedom for everyone who is subjected to these practices. Among the abuses that ASI opposes are trafficking of women and forced prostitution. ASI focuses on the rights of people who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation of their labor, notably women, children, migrant workers, and indigenous peoples.

Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition
The Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (BSCC) is an alliance of over 60 government and nonprofit agencies in the United States and Latin America that is convened in and along the U.S.-Mexico Border Region to combat slavery and human trafficking.

Break the Chain Campaign
Break The Chain Campaign seeks to minimize the effects of human trafficking, modern-day slavery, and worker exploitation through comprehensive direct service, research, outreach, advocacy, and training and technical assistance.

Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls—Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Its researchers conduct fact finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.

Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking
An initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Campaign helps identify and assist victims of human trafficking in the United States by ensuring victims receive the benefits and services needed to live safely. The Campaign also maintains the Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline (1-888-373-7888), connecting victims of trafficking to resources in their local area.

Child Centre for Children At Risk in the Baltic Sea Region
The Child Centre is the Web site for a regional effort to raise the level of knowledge and to coordinate activities targeting children at risk in the Baltic Sea region. The center's efforts focus on children who are victimized by sexual exploitation, living on the street, or in institutions, children who commit crimes, and unaccompanied and trafficked children.

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division
CEOS works to combat incidences of child exploitation and the trafficking of women and children. Issues under the CEOS umbrella include child pornography, illegal interstate or international transportation of women and children, international parental abduction, computer-related exploitation of children, and child victimization on Federal and Indian lands.

Child Labor Public Education Project
The Child Labor Public Education Project of the University of Iowa Labor Center and Center for Human Rights, supported by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides educational workshops and materials on a range of issues regarding child labor in the United States and other countries. Workshops and related handouts discuss these issues and efforts to end child labor through advocacy by unions, churches, and community organizations; reform of laws and regulations; and consumer actions.

The DAPHNE Programme
The Daphne Programme (2000–2003) aims to ensure high levels of physical and mental health in women and children by protecting children, young people, and women against violence (including sexual exploitation and abuse), by preventing violence and future exposure to violence, and by providing support for the victims of violence. It further aims to assist and encourage nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other organizations active in this field and, in so doing, to contribute to social well being.

ECPAT International
ECPAT is a network of organizations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography, and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.

Free the Slaves
Free the Slaves, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to ending slavery worldwide. This organization believes that ending slavery worldwide is an ambitious, and realizable, goal that requires a solid commitment to specific guiding principles as well as multiple, holistic approaches. Free the Slaves’ approach is a focused strategy in the context of efforts around the world to enable people to meet their basic needs. Access to economic opportunities, health services, universal education, and strong rule of law would reduce the vulnerability of poor people to enslavement.

Global March Against Child Labour
The Global March seeks to eliminate child labor by questioning, attacking, and changing the very systems that compel children to work at the global, regional, and national levels. What is key therefore, in the fight to end child labor, is the need to advocate for policy changes. The Global March works on a three-pronged strategy. The three key processes affecting the future of the world, in particular our children, are the elimination of child labor, Education For All, and poverty alleviation. Bringing together policy and action for a unified response to child labor, illiteracy, and poverty is a priority for the Global March.

Globalization Research Center Human Slavery Project
The mission of the Human Slavery Project is to provide thoroughly developed research, educational resources, publications, conferences/workshops, films and training materials. In addition, the Human Slavery Project collaborates with relevant entities and institutions in the region to protect the human rights of exploited migrant workers in legitimate labor sectors, as well as underground sectors, alert to the feminization of migration and the specific vulnerabilities experienced by female migrant workers.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch believes that international standards of human rights apply to all people equally, and that sharp vigilance and timely protest can prevent the tragedies of the 20th century from recurring. Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Its researchers conduct fact finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world.

Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, U.S. Department of State
The Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center was established by Section 7202 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The Center will achieve greater integration and overall effectiveness in the U.S. Government's enforcement and other response efforts, and work with other governments to address the separate but related issues of alien smuggling, trafficking in persons, and criminal support of clandestine terrorist travel.

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

International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) Counter-Trafficking Programming
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), working with many organizations, provides counter-trafficking programming in Albania, Croatia, Lebanon, Indonesia, and South Eastern Europe.

The International Justice Mission
The International Justice Mission casework efforts have focused on rescuing girls from commercial sexual exploitation, releasing children from bonded slavery, freeing men and women from illegal detention and torture, protecting street children from abusive authorities, and assisting victims of illegal seizures of land and property.

International Labour Organization (ILO)
The International Labour Organization is the U.N. specialized agency that seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights. The ILO formulates international labor standards in the form of Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights: freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition of forced labor, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work-related issues.

International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The International Organization for Migration's (IOM's) counter-trafficking activities are geared toward the prevention of trafficking in persons, particularly women and children, and the protection of migrants' rights. Activities include carrying out information campaigns, providing counseling services, conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on migrant trafficking, providing safe and dignified return and reintegration assistance to the victims of trafficking, and supporting governments in their efforts to improve their legal systems and technical capacities to counter trafficking.

The International Rescue Committee
Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, postconflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression.

International Save the Children Alliance
Save the Children has shown great tenacity in pursuing its founder's concept of children's rights and ultimately, more than a decade ago, embodying these rights in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. All over the world, Save the Children is a symbol for dedicated and professional work with and for children. Children have the right to be protected from violence and abuse, to be healthy and well educated. Children have the right to speak out, telling us what they want and what they expect from us. Children have the right to join in the decisions made about their own futures. Save the Children sees children and young people as partners who participate in the projects they are to benefit from. Save the Children members are exploring ways to increase the input of children and young people in all aspects of their activities.

International Women's Rights Center "La Strada–Ukraine"
Nongovernmental organizations from Poland and the Czech Republic, along with STV, a foundation against trafficking in women, initiated the La Strada Program. In March 1998, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the International Women's Rights Center, "La Strada-Ukraine." From 1997 to 2002, the center's projects were performed with the financial support from the European Commission; "Vidrodzhennya" Fund; the Open Society Institute; the Fridrich Ebert Fund; Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights; USAID; the Embassies of the United States, Great Britain, Finland, and France in the Ukraine; Anti-Slavery International; the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the government of Austria; and other government and charity organizations.

Interpol–Trafficking in Human Beings
The main aim of Interpol is to promote the widest possible mutual assistance between all criminal police authorities. It provides a structured platform for raising awareness, building competence, and identifying best practices within law enforcement worldwide. Interpol provides a forum for exchanging information on current trends and investigations. Trafficking in human beings is considered one of the top priorities at Interpol, which maintains that only by ascertaining the true character of trafficking can appropriate measures be adapted against it.

Maiti Nepal
Maiti Nepal originated from a crusade to protect Nepali girls and women from crimes such as domestic violence, trafficking for the flesh trade, child prostitution, child labor, and various forms of exploitation and torture. Maiti Nepal was formed in 1993 to fight against all the social evils inflicted upon the female populace, focusing on preventing trafficking for forced prostitution, rescuing flesh trade victims, and rehabilitating them. This social organization also actively works to find justice for victimized girls and women by engaging in criminal investigation and waging legal battles against the criminals. It has highlighted the trafficking issue with its strong advocacy from the local to national and international levels.

The MiraMed Institute
The mission of the MiraMed Institute is to provide programs of social protection, education, training, and self-sufficiency and advocacy for orphans, disadvantaged children, and young adults in Russia; to provide direct humanitarian aid, medicine, food, and supplies to orphanages in need; to educate and advocate for the elimination of sexual trafficking of girls and young women from Russia and the former Republics, and to assist in their rescue, return, and rehabilitation.

Office for Victims of Crime
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) was established by the 1984 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) to oversee diverse programs that benefit victims of crime. OVC provides substantial funding to State victim assistance and compensation programs—the lifeline services that help victims heal. The agency supports trainings designed to educate criminal justice and allied professionals regarding the rights and needs of crime victims. To review a list of trafficking programs funded by OVC, please visit http://www.ovc.gov/help/traffickingmatrix.htm.

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) helps refugees and other special populations (such as adult victims of severe forms of trafficking) obtain economic and social self-sufficiency in the United States. ORR also maintains the trafficking victims verification toll-free number, 1-866-401-5510. This phone number is available for Federal benefit representatives to call for more information about victim certification.

Office of Women in Development (WID), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID's WID program supports the education of girls and fosters economic and political opportunities for women. These programs help create conditions that lessen the vulnerability of women and children to traffickers.

Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), U.S. Department of Justice
OVW (formerly VAWO) provides national and international leadership on legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, including trafficking in persons and worker exploitation. OVW publications on this topic include Information for Victims of Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labor, and chapter 16 of the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women.

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (P.L. 106-386), adopted in October 2000, provides the tools to combat trafficking in persons, both worldwide and domestically. The Act authorized the establishment of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Polaris Project
The Polaris Project combats human trafficking and modern-day slavery by providing survivor support and policy advocacy. The center's mission is to serve as a research and networking center to strengthen and expand the anti-trafficking community by fostering communication, and through shared learning and mutual support for community work.

Project Hope International: USA
Project HOPE International (PHI) is a nonprofit organization based in the greater Washington, DC region dedicated to counter human trafficking. PHI is founded and run entirely by a dynamic core of committed young professionals, activists and university students, all of whom have strong career and academic orientations toward matters of human security. Many members have either lived in, or traveled to, Southeast Asia, providing an invaluable regional knowledge and cultural sensitivity that is unique in the field of anti-trafficking initiatives.

The Protection Project
The Protection Project gathers and disseminates information about worldwide trafficking in persons, focusing on national and international laws, legal cases, and implications of trafficking in other areas of U.S. and international foreign policy. The project is a 5-year research project based at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.

The Salvation Army: Human Trafficking
The Salvation Army (TSA) has been and continues to be a leader on the issue of human trafficking. Examples of its efforts to eradicate trafficking go back to the early chapters of the organization?s history and include The Salvation Army's successful legal reform campaign to help prevent the trafficking of young girls during the 1880?s in the United Kingdom. Moreover, upon seeing the desperate needs of women and children caught up in organized commercial sexual exploitation, The Salvation Army responded by opening homes for women and girls and developing intensive "Rescue Work." Within thirty years Salvation Army rescue homes grew from one to 117.

Shared Hope International 
Shared Hope International exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. They are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness using a three-pronged strategy—prevent, rescue and restore.

Terre des hommes Foundation
Since its creation by Edmond Kaiser in 1960, the Terre des hommes Foundation has acted as an ambassador for children in need, providing them with life-saving assistance. Terre des hommes provides aid and support, not only in times of major catastrophe, but also for lesser-known or already forgotten disasters, with projects and action always coordinated to the needs of the stricken children. Today, Terre des hommes is the largest and most important Swiss organization for children's aid in action outside Switzerland.

Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force, U.S. Department of Justice
The Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force (TPWETF) works to prevent trafficking in persons and worker exploitation throughout the United States and investigates and prosecutes cases when such violations occur. The Task Force also maintains the TPWETF Complaint Line. To report suspected instances of trafficking or worker exploitation, please contact the nearest Federal Bureau of Investigation field office or contact the Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force Complaint Line at 1-888-428-7581.

Trafficking in the Philippines
This Web site is maintained by the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) through a grant from the United States Department of State. Through this initiative, ACILS hopes to achieve facilitation of a multisectoral traffic watch group, with specialized capacity to assist victims, monitor trafficking developments, process inquiries/complaints, and initiate filing of cases involving trafficking. Also, it would like to conduct joint initiatives with national government agencies and local government units to bring about improvements in: (1) prevention of trafficking; (2) protection and assistance to victims and vulnerable groups; and (3) prosecution of traffickers.

United Nations Children's Fund United Kingdom's End Child Exploitation Campaign
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) United Kingdom's campaign to End Child Exploitation involves implementing practical projects to reduce the risk of exploitation, advocating for laws and policies that support a protective environment, and rehabilitating exploited children to set them on a healthy path to adulthood.

United Nations Development Fund for Women
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programs and strategies that promote women's human rights, political participation, and economic security. Within the U.N. system, UNIFEM promotes gender equality and links women's issues and concerns to national, regional, and global agendas by fostering collaboration and providing technical expertise on gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment strategies.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Trafficking Project
As part of its mandate to strengthen research, UNESCO is conducting a literature review and meta-analysis of existing statements on trafficking. UNESCO is tracing the origin of numbers cited by various sources, attempting to ascertain the methodology by which these numbers were calculated and evaluating their validity. The aim is to clarify the bases on which estimates of the numbers of trafficked persons are derived and to separate trafficking myths from trafficking realities.

United Nations Global Programme Against Trafficking in Human Beings
Program efforts to end trafficking in persons include helping policymakers and practitioners collect and assess data; promoting public awareness; training law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges; strengthening victim and witness support; and encouraging national and international collaboration to design effective strategies against trafficking in persons.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The High Commissioner for Human Rights is the official with principal responsibility for United Nations human rights activities. The Commissioner is committed to working with other parts of the United Nations to integrate human rights standards throughout the work of the organization.

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section
The Criminal Section prosecutes cases involving the violent interference with liberties and rights defined in the Constitution or federal law. The rights of both citizens and non-citizens are protected. In general, it is the use of force, threats, or intimidation that characterize a federal criminal violation of an individual's civil rights. Our cases often involve incidents that are invariably of intense public interest. While some violations may most appropriately be pursued by the federal Government, others can be addressed by either the federal Government or by state or local prosecutors. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that acts constituting federal criminal civil rights violations are sufficiently remedied, whether prosecuted federally or by local authorities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Human Trafficking and Human Smuggling
The mission of the ICE Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit is to identify, both domestically and internationally, criminal individuals and organizations involved in human smuggling and trafficking and destroy their ability to operate by using the full range of resources, capabilities, and authorities available to ICE. Disruption of current smuggling activity, seizure of assets and funds, relentless investigation, and prosecution of the individuals involved significantly undermine the capacity of these organizations and groups to conduct their business.

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.
Asian in perspective and local in context, Visayan Forum is a Philippine-based national NGO that seeks to mobilize national efforts by advocating for policies and programs that sustain long-term social changes involving children, communities and other social partners; providing specialized care for migrants at risk, especially invisible working children such as child domestic workers and trafficked children; organizing working children, advocates, and other stakeholders; and modeling community-based integrated programs that deal with the root causes of child labor, trafficking, and migration.

Vital Voices
Vital Voices Global Partnership envisions a world of peace, justice, and economic opportunity for all—where the voice of every woman is heard and respected. Vital Voices is working to raise awareness about trafficking in women and girls, to assist victims sold into slavery in the United States, and to train women leaders around the world to fight trafficking in their own countries.

WomenAid International
Founded more than 10 years ago as a humanitarian aid and development agency, WomenAid's mission is to provide relief and assistance to women and children suffering distress caused by war, disasters, or poverty; to empower women through education, training, and provision of credit; and to campaign against violations of women's human rights.

Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
The Women's Bureau promotes profitable employment opportunities for women and advocates skills development, improvements in working conditions, and equitable employment standards, policies, and programs.

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