HEAL Trafficking
A united group of over 2,500 survivors and multidisciplinary professionals in 18 countries dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting its survivors, from a public health perspective.
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A united group of over 2,500 survivors and multidisciplinary professionals in 18 countries dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting its survivors, from a public health perspective.
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We create a bridge between trafficking survivors and highly skilled pro bono legal representation. Together we work to hold traffickers accountable for their crimes through civil litigation and criminal restitution. HT Legal gains compensation for survivors so that they can reclaim their lives. We are a non-profit organization, monitoring the federal government and working to improve federal policy to benefit trafficking survivors.
Committed to creating a collaborative community of abolitionists determined to end slavery in our lifetime.
In the USA, Hope for Justice focuses on partnership working to deliver prevention sessions, best practice for restorative care and training for professionals. They are developing a model of investigation and rescue that complements the work of law enforcement and other agencies and supports the prosecution of perpetrators.
Founded by Ben Affleck, Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) is an advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on working with and for the people of eastern Congo. They envision an eastern Congo vibrant with abundant opportunities for economic and social development, where a robust civil society can flourish. ECI believes that local, community-based approaches are essential to creating a sustainable and successful society in eastern Congo.
Water.org brings water and sanitation to the world. They want to make it safe, accessible and cost-effective because they believe that water is the way to empowering a better life that we can all share in, worldwide. Water.org is an international nonprofit organization that has positively transformed more than four million lives around the world through access to safe water and sanitation. Founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, they have been pioneering innovative, sustainable solutions to the global water crisis for 25 years, giving women hope, children health and communities a future.
The Anti-Trafficking Review promotes a human rights-based approach to anti-trafficking. It explores trafficking in its broader context including gender analyses and intersections with labour and migrant rights.
Heifer International empowers families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity – but their approach is more than just giving them a handout. Heifer links communities and helps bring sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with a long history of poverty. Their animals provide partners with both food and reliable income, as agricultural products such as milk, eggs and honey can be traded or sold at market. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings and funding small businesses.
The mission of the Human Trafficking Investigations & Training Institute (HTITI) is to combat human trafficking locally, nationally, and internationally by establishing awareness and investigative training programs empowering law enforcement agencies, first responders, other government entities, and civic-minded professionals, with the knowledge and expertise to work cohesively toward recognizing community human trafficking issues, free victims of human trafficking, and bring traffickers to justice.
Pacific Links Foundation (“Vòng Tay Thái Bình” in Vietnamese) (PALS) is a 501(c)(3) public charity that seeks to encourage sustainable development in Vietnamese communities through community building and knowledge transfer…
The preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.”
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…
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.
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
The only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
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.
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.
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.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
Verité’s mission is to ensure that people around the world work under safe, fair, and legal conditions.
The Solidarity Center’s mission is to help build a global labor movement by strengthening the economic and political power of workers around the world through effective, independent and democratic unions.
Safe Horizon is the nation’s leading victim assistance organization and touches the lives of more than 250,000 affected by crime and abuse each year. Whether they are responding to child abuse, domestic violence, or other violent crimes, they help victims and their families heal and rebuild their lives.
Established in 1998 in the wake of the El Monte sweatshop case where 72 Thai garment workers were kept for eight years in slavery and debt bondage. Upon their release and under the leadership of CAST’s founder Dr. Kathryn MacMahon, a group of concerned community activists realized something needed to be done to address the re-emergence of slavery in our own backyards.
A worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of corporate social responsibility, community organizing, and sustainable food. The CIW is also a leader in the growing movement to end human trafficking due to its groundbreaking work to combat modern-day slavery and other labor abuses common in agriculture.
Truckers Against Trafficking recognizes that members of the trucking industry and individual truckers are invaluable in the fight against this heinous crime. As the eyes and ears of our nation’s highways, truckers are in a unique position to make a difference and close loopholes to traffickers who seek to exploit the transportation system for their personal gain. This site has been created to inform truckers and other travelers of the basic issues involved in human trafficking and a summary of ways they can help.
ECPAT International is a global network of organisations working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.
MAITI Nepal was born out of a crusade to protect Nepali girls and women from crimes like domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labor and various forms of exploitation and torture. A group of socially committed professionals like teachers, journalists and social workers together formed Maiti Nepal in 1993 to fight against all the social evils inflicted upon our female populace. Most of all, its special focus has always been on preventing trafficking for forced prostitution, rescuing flesh trade victims and rehabilitating them.
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to secure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to ensure that public justice systems – police, courts and laws – effectively protect the poor.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.
Slavery is still one of the darkest stories on our planet. But for Love146, the hope of abolition is a reality. Love146 believes in helping grow the movement of abolition while providing effective, thoughtful solutions. They believe in the power of Love and its ability to affect sustainable change. Love is the foundation of their motivation.
Made by Survivors is an international nonprofit organization which employs and educates survivors of slavery and other human rights abuses, including women and children living in extreme poverty. Their programs create jobs in highly respected professions, with high wages, that develop business and leadership skills.
A Washington, DC-based nonprofit working to end modern slavery by developing a comprehensive platform for growing and advancing the anti-slavery movement. ESN’s tools integrate resources to allow members of the movement to efficiently coordinate their respective efforts to combat slavery, and allow information to be shared with, and resources directed toward, partners and other stakeholders.
A coalition of U.S.-based human rights organizations working to end modern-day slavery and human trafficking in the United States and around the world, advocating for lasting solutions to prevent labor and sex trafficking, hold perpetrators accountable, ensure justice for victims and empower survivors with tools for recovery.
Polaris Project is committed to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery, and to strengthening the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach.
There are many groups around the world working on the front line against slavery. Walk Free aims to amplify and extend their efforts by gathering a global membership, using social networks and new technologies, and organising campaigns and communities online and on the ground, making the fight against slavery a real priority across the world.
Anti-Slavery International works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world.
Humanity United is a foundation committed to building peace and advancing human freedom. We lead, support, and collaborate with a broad network of efforts, ideas, and organizations that share our vision of a world free of conflict and injustice.
Dedicated to ending slavery work-wide. They believe it’s an ambitious – and realizable – goal. Everyone has a role to play: governments,businesses, international aid organizations, consumers, and you.