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"The Fishing Industry's Cruelest Catch,"
E. Benjamin Skinner, February 20, 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek
Corporate Responsibility in the Seafood Industry: What About People?
Foreign-Chartered Vessels:
The Controversy
Media Response to
Slavery In Your Seafood
Press Coverage of
Slavery at Sea
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Human Trafficking
& Modern-Day
Slavery Project
Human trafficking
& slavery factsheet
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Human trafficking
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Resources for
Counter-Trafficking
Trafficking Hotlines
(La Línea de Crisis)
Global Hotlines List (compiled by the G/TIP)
National Hotlines List for Europe, Scandinavia, United Kingdom (compiled by the European Commission)
Austria: 01-24836-85383
Israel: 580-175-545
Malaysia: 012 335 0512
Philippines: 1343 from Metro Manila, or 02-1343 from the provinces
Sweden: 020-50 50 50
U.A.E.: 800 7283 (available Arabic, English, Urdu, Russian, Filipino and Bengali)
U.S.A
U.S. national hotline (Polaris Project): 1-888-3737-888
U.S. national English & Español hotline to (BSCC):
619-666-2757
U.S. national hotline to the U.S. Department of Justice:
888-428-7581
- Colorado Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-866-455-5075
- Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence: 1-800-669-3176
- Ohio (Central) Rescue and Restore Coalition: 614-285-4357
- Oregon Human Trafficking Hotline: 503-251-2479
- New Mexico: 1-888-428-7581
U.S. Government
Department of Health & Human Services>
Administration for Children & Families>
The Campaign to Rescue & Restore
Victims of Human Trafficking
Department of Homeland Security>
Program: Human Trafficking
Department of Justice>
Bureau of Justice Assistance>
Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Initiative
Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS)
Department of Labor>
Bureau of International Labor Affairs>
Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor,
and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
Department of State>
Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Bureau of Diplomatic Security: Human Smuggling
and Trafficking Center
Links to U.S. federal task forces and government entities
combating human trafficking
U.S. Legislation
- Information about U.S. state and federal laws (Polaris Project)
- Pending state and federal legislation (Polaris Project)
- Polaris Project's Legislative Toolbox
- U.S. federal policy and laws (Polaris Project)
- Polaris Project's map of U.S. states with links to local information and resources
- 2010 U.S. state ratings chart based on key human trafficking provisions based on statutes, 8/18/2010 (Polaris Project data)
U.S. Task Forces, Coalitions, & Projects
- U.S. Task Forces
- Map of Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) / Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC) Human Trafficking Task Forces (42)
- Phoenix, Arizona, Police Department on Trafficking
- Clearwater/Tampa Bay Area, Florida, Task Force
- Northern Iowa Human Trafficking Response Team
- Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force
- Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force
- Michigan State University Human Trafficking Task Force
- New Jersey Human Trafficking Task Force
- American Samoa Territorial Anti-Trafficking Task Force
- Task Force publications
- Coalitions
- California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery
- Human Trafficking North Carolina at UNC: NC Coalition
- The Alliance to End Slavery & Trafficking (ATEST)
Members:- Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), Greater Los Angeles, California
- End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT-USA)
- Free the Slaves
- International Justice Mission (IJM)
- Not for Sale Campaign
- Polaris Project
- Safe Horizon
- Solidarity Center
- Verité
- Vital Voices Global Partnership
- World Vision
- Julia Ormond, founder, ASSET
- Projects
- University of Denver's Human Trafficking Clinic, Colorado
- Northeastern University's Human Trafficking Data Collection & Reporting Project, Massachusetts
- University of Michigan: Human Trafficking Clinical Program
- Rights Work Initiative (A joint project by the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington, D.C., and the KOK network of German anti-trafficking organization)
- The Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
International Government & Country Data
Baltic Sea States, Council of> Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings with focus on adults
Canada>
Department of Justice>
An Overview of Trafficking in Persons and the
Government of Canada's Efforts to respond to
this Crime: 2010-2011
European Union>
European Commission>
Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings
- EU Legislation & Case Law
- International Legislation
- EU Countries & Data Map
- Governmental Organizations, by country
- Independent Experts, by country
- NGOs, by EU country
Mekong Subregion> UNIAP key resources
United Kingdom> SOCA> The U.K. Human Trafficking Centre
UN-GIFT list with links to countries (includes national human trafficking prevention action plans and more)
United Nations
UN Global Compact (supporting Corporate Social Responsibility)
Global Compact Labor Working Group
UN-Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN-GIFT)
UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)
Matthew Friedman, UNIAP, spoke at the Hartford Public Library's Forum on Human Trafficking, July 19, 2011. Friedman is also a co-founder of The Mekong Club.
UN International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO Forced Labor
ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards
ILO Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labor
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)>
UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling
Blue Heart Campaign against human trafficking
Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking
Non-Governmental (NGOs)
Alliance to Stop Slavery & End Trafficking (ASSET)
ATZUM-Justice Works and the Task Force on Human Trafficking in Israel
Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (BSCC en Español)
(working in the American Southwest and Mexico)
Blue BlindFold, an international campaign of the
U.K. Human Trafficking Centre
Boston Initiative to Advance Human Rights (Film, law, advocacy in the fight against sex trafficking)
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
December 18 (an online resource for migrant workers)
Demand Abolition (an organization whose mission is to abolish the illegal commercial sex industry in the United States)
ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Child
Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes
End Human Trafficking Now! (A campaign with
the business community)
European Network Against Trafficking
in Human Beings: La Strada International
Freedom Registry
(A compendium of advocates and advocacy organizations working in the field of counter-trafficking.)
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW),
an alliance of more than a 100 NGOs from around the world
Global Workers Justice Alliance
Human Rights Watch: Trafficking of Women and Girls
ILO SAPFL's links to NGOs and agencies
Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights
International Institute of Connecticut, Inc.'s
Human Trafficking Project
International Labor Rights Forum
KOK (German activist coordination group combating
trafficking and violence against women)
Media Monitoring Africa: Child Protection & Trafficking
The Mekong Club, a coalition of business executives in Hong Kong
Not For Sale Campaign
Oklahomans Against Human Trafficking
Organization for Security and Co-Operation
in Europe (OSCE)
Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator
for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) / Polaris Project
- Polaris Project's list of selected resources
NEXUS Institute (an independent international human rights research and policy center)
People For Children, the Ricky Martin Foundation
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
Rights Work Initiative, a joint project of the Center Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor and the German KOK network
Stop Sex Slavery: Triple S Network
TAMPEP (European Network for HIV/STD Prevention
and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers)
Terre des Hommes International Federation
Terre des Hommes Swiss Foundation has created a digital library with more than 3,200 documents related to child trafficking.
Vital Voices
Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking
Cameroon Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking
Statistics & Databases
Links to labor statistics and databases from the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Human Trafficking Research Database, by subject, developed by teams at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Women's Center.
Terre des Hommes Swiss Foundation's digital database and library, more than 3,200 documents related to child trafficking, searchable.
UNODC Human Trafficking Case Law Database
U.S. Cases of Human Trafficking Database, Human Trafficking Clinic, University of Michigan Human Trafficking.
Publications
(Organized by publishing organization)
U.S. Department of State's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics: Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents Series
- Updated list of products manufactured, mined, or produced by forced or indentured child labor, June 2011
Anti-Slavery International research reports and briefs
Baltic Sea States, (Council of the) - TF-THB publications
ECPAT International publications; ECPAT-USA publications
European Commission, an extensive compilation of research reports, manuals, guidelines, and other publications related to human trafficking, and produced by various institutions and agencies.
Europe, Organization for Security and Co-Operation: reports
"Analyzing the Business Model of Trafficking in Human Beings to Better Prevent the Crime," a research study by the Expert Group Initiative under UN-GIFT and OSCE
European Network Against Trafficking in Human Beings: La Strada International's online documentation center, more than 1,700 documents in a searchable database
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women's publications
ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour publications
ILO SAPFL's links to non-ILO publications, organized by subject and region
Rights Work Initiative, Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor, American University Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington, D.C.: Research and Policy Papers (English, Español, Français); Reports
Terre des Hommes's Digital Library of more than 3,200 documents related to child trafficking, searchable
UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking key resources on trafficking, particularly focused on countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
UN Office on Drugs and Crime: tools and publications
U.S. Task Forces or state publications:
- Human Trafficking in California 10/2007 Final Report
- Human Trafficking in Kentucky Task Force Report 2007
- Ohio Attorney General Report on Human Trafficking
- Human Trafficking in Minnesota Report 2010
- Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force Report 2011
- Setting up a Task Force: OVC Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Strategy and Operations e-Guide
See also selected books and articles
Last page update: October 27, 2012