Shared Hope International strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women and children. They envision a world passionately opposed to sex trafficking and a committed community restoring survivors to lives of purpose, value and choice – one life at a time.
Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) to inject “new potency in the Thirteenth Amendment’s guarantee of freedom: whether on farms or sweatshops, in domestic service or forced prostitution.” Federal criminal law has long recognized forced labor under threat of criminal sanction as a form of involuntary servitude. In 2003 Congress added a powerful enforcement mechanism: a private right of action permitting victims to hold their traffickers accountable.
For over 20 years a charity that returns childhood to forgotten children. They bring hope, life, colour and fun into the lives of children, living on the edge of their societies in countries across the globe
The great pandemic of 2020 has pushed the human rights regime into a brand-new dominion. The challenges for state leaders and activists alike will be, for the foreseeable future, continually linked to activities of other countries; their ability to suppress infection rates, and successful mechanisms for protecting populations from illness or death.
The handmade carpet industry exploits nearly 250,000 children. GoodWeave is helping to combat this problem and transform the rug industry by certifying child-labor-free rugs and by providing education and opportunities to rescued and at-risk children.
Modern slavery is often ‘hidden in plain sight’. These heinous crimes are present across a range of industries in Australia and in the global supply chains of businesses and organisations operating here. Latest estimates suggest that over 40 million people around the world, and 4 300 in Australia, are victims of some form of modern slavery, which includes human trafficking, slavery, debt bondage, forced labour and other slavery-like practices.
Believes that changing the world takes everyone. They are a network of individuals, groups, and businesses working together to disrupt slavery and make freedom go viral. They produce innovative campaigns, on the ground projects, consumer engagement tools, and business solutions designed to get slavery out of the system.
From Dame Sara Thornton – Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner: The Modern Slavery Act (2015) sets out my role to encourage good practice across the UK and in my strategic plan which was laid before parliament in October 2019 I set out how I planned to do that. This report is structured around the four priorities in the strategic plan and details my activities, and those of my small team, over eleven months from my appointment in May 2019.
The leading nonprofit organization in the U.S. working with law enforcement, families and the professionals who serve them on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children. As part of its Congressional authorization, NCMEC has created a unique public and private partnership to build a coordinated, national response to the problem of missing and sexually exploited children, establish a missing children hotline and serve as the national clearinghouse for information related to these issues.
Due to COVID-19 and subsequent shelter-in-place guidelines, working from home is the new routine for many professionals. That being said, homeworking has been the norm for millions of people in global supply chains for many years. This article provides a brief overview of homeworking and its role in the global economy, describes some its most salient risks of modern slavery, and outlines the impact of COVID-19 on this population.
Established in 2002 as a result of a groundswell of opinion urging the chocolate industry to ensure child and forced labour were not used in the production of their products. ICI’s mission is to “oversee and sustain efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour and forced labour in the growing and processing of cocoa beans and their derivative products.”
Tomoya Obokata was appointed as Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, by the Human Rights Council in March 2020. He assumed his functions on 1 May 2020. The present report is his first report to the Council. The present report contains reflections on and analysis of the impact that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had on contemporary forms of slavery and slavery-like practices, and recommendations on how various stakeholders could mitigate the impact of the pandemic. It also contains an overview of the methods of work that the new Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, intends to implement and promote during his tenure.
A non-profit, government recognized and registered NGO working for rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation of victims for human trafficking from different parts of India, Nepal & Bangladesh and sold for forced…
In 2018-2019, the International Secretariat of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW- IS), in collaboration with eleven organisations across nine countries in Asia carried out a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) focusing on ‘Safe and Fair Migration: A feminist perspective on women’s rights to mobility and work’. In our study, FPAR is used as a framework and approach to capturing women migrants’ complex realities and perspectives on labor and migration. What distinguishes FPAR from conventional research is that it is deliberately women-centered and participant driven, the knowledge comes from the women (community) and owned by them, and based on their lived experiences, the research participants propose solutions so the research results become a tool to collectively organize advocacy actions.
Mission is to end sex trafficking in New York and restore the well-being and independence of foreign-national survivors. Working to this end, they deliver complete care, addressing physical, emotional and spiritual needs; provide community and safe, long-term housing; empower survivors when they cooperate with law enforcement; increase awareness and understanding in the greater community, and, advocate for effective policies and legislation.
The COVID-19 pandemic intensifies inequality in the world affecting the most vulnerable individuals in our populations. Even before the pandemic human trafficking victims faced isolation, lack of freedom of movement and of access to assistance and information. The spread of COVID-19 and the following crisis made them even more invisible to the world in a time when they need more help than ever.
Child Wise is dedicated to protecting children from abuse and exploitation in Australia and overseas by providing direct counselling, advice and support; raising awareness and educating individuals and communities through education campaigns and trainings; building the capacity of individuals and communities to protect children; researching and responding to new risks to children eg. the Internet; and reducing the impact of child abuse and exploitation through counselling and other recovery program
A practical guide to: highlight particular modern slavery risks prevalent in the property and construction sector; provide tips for the property and construction sector on leading practice and a rights-based approach to managing modern slavery risk; and, foster transparent modern slavery reporting for the benefit of business, government and the people at risk of harm.
The only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
Workers at a potato processing plant in Texas face abuse by their employers but choose to stay silent out of fear of losing their H-2A visas. Most are unaware they’re even victims of forced labor, or that the fees they’re required to pay to their supervisors for a visa are illegal. They don’t trust the authorities either, and fear retaliation for speaking out. It’s a reality faced by some 36,000 people a year in this border state.
Through its various projects, WIF aims to bring about mainstreaming and self reliance among vulnerable women and children who are under-privileged and are victims of social injustice and sexual exploitation.
The global impact of COVID-19 means people are spending more time online. This includes both children and adults. Adults working remotely are less able to spend time with their children, who are allowed greater unsupervised internet access. As a result, children are: more exposed to offenders through online gaming, the use of chat groups in apps, phishing attempts via email, unsolicited contact in social media and through less secure online educational applications; more inclined towards making explicit material to exchange with peers, eventually reaching child sex offenders; in some cases, becoming lonely and isolated, which offenders try to benefit from, connecting with them to produce explicit material or to arrange a meeting in real life.
Mission is to increase choices for at-risk girls and women in order to ensure access to their rights, and to deter the purchase of sex through policy and social change.
This report aims to better understand how Albania’s child protection system works as it relates to potential victims of child trafficking. It is based on the detailed data from 45 cases reported by the Child Protection Units from eleven municipalities across Albania. The cases were selected from those collected by the State Agency for the Rights and Protection of the Child in the framework of the support provided by the OSCE Presence in Albania because they demonstrate strong evidence of child trafficking.
ASSET’s advocacy reaches out to and collaboratively convenes the communities that fuel and monitor demand, and educates all stakeholders on the realities and solutions of enslavement today.
