Human+Trafficking

= **NEW 2/28/10: Slavery in LosAngeles** = "As many as 17,000 human slaves are trafficked into the United States every year. Los Angeles is a prime destination. With the city's diverse culture, people from foreign countries blend in. They blend in in agriculture, in sweatshops, and they blend in as the domestic slave next door."
 * The links below can get you started researching human trafficking issues around the world. Each link includes information from the site's "about" page. Most pages below include links to other sites. Make sure to evaluate the credibility of any site you use! **

=NEW 2/28/10: MSNBC Child Slavery Reports=

A listing of links to past reports on child slavery, around the world and in the U.S.
"The purpose of this Web site is to bring Government and Non-Government Organizations (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." Not For Sale ** ===="The Not For Sale Campaign equips and mobilizes Smart Activists to deploy innovative solutions to re-abolish slavery in their own backyards and across the globe. Together, we can end slavery in our lifetime."==== Child Trafficking ** "Each day, more children are trafficked into prostitution, forced labour, child marriage and other slavery-like conditions. Each day sees the growth of skills and experience of traffickers and those who purchase trafficked persons. Each day, the challenges grow greater for those who seek to prevent child trafficking and provide care for children who have been trafficked. We can effectively fight trafficking only if our knowledge, our experience and our skills surpass those of the traffickers. Over the last 20 years, anti-trafficking organizations and individuals in all corners of the world have clarified issues, conducted research, developed strategies and carried out interventions. Today, to be more effective in the war against trafficking, we need to share our accumulated knowledge, skills and experience on a global platform. This is the mission of this website. "
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Organizations working to stop human trafficking - A List
"The organizations and websites listed on this page offer information about their advocacy work and programs to stop the practice of human trafficking and details on how to contact the organizations. This list was compiled only as a resource and inclusion does not indicate an endorsement of any particular organization, website, or program by Amnesty International USA."

**MTV EXIT: End Exploitation and Trafficking** "MTV EXIT is a campaign about freedom -- about our rights as human beings to choose where we live, where we work, who our friends are, and who we love. Most of us take these freedoms for granted, but hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world have had these basic human rights taken away. They are victims of trafficking - modern-day slaves -- and criminals have forced, defrauded, or coerced them into various forms of labor, or prostitution. MTV EXIT aims to increase awareness and prevention of human trafficking through television programs, online content, live events, and partnerships with anti-trafficking organizations."

**The Human Trafficking Project Blog** "The Human Trafficking Project is a New York-based non-profit organization that utilizes art and technology to raise awareness of modern day slavery, connect those working to combat the issue and support trafficking survivors. Art has always been a powerful means of conveying a message and moving people to action. Combined with the technology to connect people, provide timely information and channel resources to support victims, the HTP's goal is to blend art, information and technology to create awareness of modern day slavery and take action to stop it. "

Strategies Against Human Trafficking
Divided into three parts, this book examines first some key thematic areas, including trafficking and corruption, links with organised crime, and the overlap with other forms of migration. It then focuses on key security sector actors, analysing their roles and providing policy recommendations for police, prosecutors and judges, peacekeepers, and migration management actors, among others. Finally, it explores the key issue of counter-trafficking cooperation and draws policy-relevant conclusions about how such cooperation can be improved.

Ghana Fishing Children
A report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

International Justice Mission

 * International Justice Mission** is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
"The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opened in August 2004 on the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Our purpose is to tell the story of the struggle for freedom in the United States through exhibits and programs that focus on America's battle to rid itself of the ugly scourge of slavery and treat all its citizens with respect and dignity." Check out the "Slavery Today" link.