Sex Trafficking Victim

Sex Trafficking and Prostitution
in the
 United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland


Anti-Trafficking Organizations

For reports see: PUBLICATIONS


Ireland
 

CHASTE
Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe

http://www.chaste.org.uk/index.html

Sanctuary Project
CHASTE is an ecumenically based charity, which is connected through the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the Churches Together in England with over fifty different denominations within the United Kingdom alone.

In Europe CHASTE has been developing its own European network of European Churches responding to the increasing trade in sexploitative labour. Alongside this there is network co-ordinated through the Churches Commission on Migration in Europe of an EU funded project connecting churches and church agencies involved in anti trafficking initiatives and survivor support.

CHASTE has built on this experience of ecumenical co-operation in Europe and is actively developing a network which includes the World Evangelical Alliance through the Asha forum, the Russian Orthodox Church through the Sourozh diocese, Lutheran churches in Scandinavia, the European network of Baptist churches, the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic churches particularly as realised through their Religious Congregations and the historical and new Independent churches of Africa.

Email:  Director@chaste.org.uk

ECPAT Ireland
Network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Established in 1998, lost most committed members in 1999. Attempting to rebuild strong team.

71A Clanbrassil St.
Dundalk, Ireland
Contact: Rosie Toner
P: (353) 42 9329733
F: (353) 42 9351298 
E: yipproject@eircom.net

Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition
Anti-trafficking Coalition - British Isles (also works internationally)
Belfast 
Northern Ireland
Gregory Carlin (Director)
E: info.iatc@ntlworld.com
Ruhama

 
"Ruhama addresses the reality of women who engage in prostitution, by reaching out to help them discover their dignity."

Senior House
All Hallows College
Drumcondra, Dublin 9
T. 353 1 836 0292 
F. 353 1 836 0268 
E: admin@ruhama.ie
http://www.ruhama.ie/


Scotland
 

Base 75

http://www.gvawp.org.uk/InfoWomen/Orgs/Wbase.htm
Mission: To provide a non-judgmental, easily accessible service to women involved in street prostitution. To assist women to exit prostitution.

75 Robertson Street
Glasgow G2 8QD
T:  0141 204 3712
F:  0141 221 3498

 
Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership

http://www.gvawp.org.uk
No direct services to women. Works with agencies to bring about improvements in the services which women use. Small staff team based at the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector

11 Queen's Crescent,
Glasgow
T: 0141 332 2444
 

Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition
Anti-trafficking Coalition - British Isles (also works internationally)
Belfast 
Northern Ireland
Gregory Carlin (Director)
E: info.iatc@ntlworld.com
Routes Out of Prostitution

http://www.gvawp.org.uk/InfoWomen/Orgs/WroutOP.htm
Advice & support for women who want to stop their involvement in prostitution

T:  0141 287 5768

Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation

http://www.gvawp.org.uk/InfoWorkers/SCASE.htm
Works to raise awareness of the harm caused to women through prostitution and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation, including stripping, lap dancing, pornography, sex tourism, mail order brides, and trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
Campaigns for legislative change necessary to reduce the harm caused through prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, remove current gender inequality in the law, challenge the behaviour of men who buy sexual services Oppose efforts to categorise prostitution as 'sex work'. Legislation or legitimising the activity will not remove the harm caused but would simply legitimise that harm. Do not view prostitution as a choice for women, irrespective of age, and believe that it is contradictory to condemn child prostitution whilst condoning or ignoring adult prostitution.

Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation
c/o Women's Support Project
31 Stockwell Street
Glasgow G1 4RZ
T: 0141 552 2221
E: jan@wsproject.demon.co.uk

c/o Rape Crisis Scotland
1st Floor
Central Chambers
Glasgow G2 6LD
T: 0141 248 8848
E: info@rapecrisisscotland.org.uk

 
Scottish Women Against Pornography

http://www.swapcampaign.org
Completely unfunded voluntary organisation run by unpaid volunteers aiming to raise awareness of the harm of pornography, its' links with violence against women and children, rape and child sexual abuse, and to campaign for a change in legislation on pornography based on evidence of harm.

Scottish Women's Coalition
Catherine Harper
PO Box 23097 Brunswick Road
Edinburgh EH7 4YX
E: ffswap18@yahoo.co.uk
T: 07762 298828
P. O. Box 28073
Edinburgh EH17 8YT

News & Media: http://www.swapcampaign.org/news_media.html

Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust
Independent Charity which campaigns for the prevention of male violence against women and children. Established in 1995 and works mainly in the UK and Europe but also has links with organisations throughout the world. The Trust works with a range of agencies to promote innovative policy and best practice that target the root causes of male violence. Zero Tolerance lobbies governments, commissions research and develops educational intervention and training programmes.

25 Rutland St.
Edinburgh EH12AE
T: 44 (0)131 221 9505
    44 (0)131 228 2500
E: zerotolerance@dial.pipex.com

 


United Kingdom
 

CHASTE
Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe

http://www.chaste.org.uk/index.html

Sanctuary Project
CHASTE is an ecumenically based charity, which is connected through the Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and the Churches Together in England with over fifty different denominations within the United Kingdom alone.

In Europe CHASTE has been developing its own European network of European Churches responding to the increasing trade in sexploitative labour. Alongside this there is network co-ordinated through the Churches Commission on Migration in Europe of an EU funded project connecting churches and church agencies involved in anti trafficking initiatives and survivor support.

CHASTE has built on this experience of ecumenical co-operation in Europe and is actively developing a network which includes the World Evangelical Alliance through the Asha forum, the Russian Orthodox Church through the Sourozh diocese, Lutheran churches in Scandinavia, the European network of Baptist churches, the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic churches particularly as realised through their Religious Congregations and the historical and new Independent churches of Africa.

Email:  Director@chaste.org.uk

Eaves Housing for Women 

POPPY Project 

http://www.eaves4women.co.uk/
 

The POPPY Project is the only UK organisation that’s funded solely to provide the accommodation and support services trafficked women need to escape .Pan- London project working around issues of prostitution in London. All includes provision for developing services to women trafficked into prostitution.


2nd Floor, Lincoln House 
Kennington Park 1-3 
Bixton Road London SW9 6DE
T: 0207 735 2062 
F: 0207 840 7139
E: poppy@eaveshousing.co.uk

 
Irish Anti-Trafficking Coalition
Anti-trafficking Coalition - British Isles (also works internationally)
Belfast 
Northern Ireland
Gregory Carlin (Director)
E: info.iatc@ntlworld.com
Kalayaan
Kalayaan recognises all Overseas Domestic Workers as workers with rights. Actively campaigning for basic workers' rights for Overseas Domestic Workers of all nationalities and for an end to their current irregular immigration status. Works closely with Anti-Slavery International and Solidar (Brussels)

St. Francis Center 
Pottery Lane London WI 4NQ
Lucy Rix (European Project Worker)
T:44 171 243 2942 
    44 171 493 2253 
F: 44 171 792 3060
E: kalayaan@compuserve.com

 

International

 
Angel Coalition
MiraMed Institute

http://www.miramedinstitute.org/traffic.htm

Russian Federation's first legally registered international association of anti-trafficking women's organizations. Offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow.  Members include 43 non-governmental organizations from 25 regions of Russia, 7 former Soviet Republics and MiraMed Institute. Regional Safe Houses.  TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ASSISTANCE CENTER, MOSCOW (TVAC)

TRAFFICKING PREVENTION PROGRAM - MOSCOW
Dr. Juliette M. Engel
E: jengel@miramed.org
MIRAMED INSTITUTE - MOSCOW
Robert Aronson
E: raronson@miramed.org
MIRAMED INSTITUTE - SEATTLE
Wilma Angel
E: program@miramed.org

Anti-Slavery International

http://www.antislavery.org

Founded in 1839. World's oldest international human rights organisation. Work at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world. Three teams: Programme, Communication and Information. Goal of a slave-free world.

Thomas Clarkson House
The Stableyard
Broomgrove Road
London, UK SW9 9TL
T:  (0)20 7501 8920
F:  (0)20 7738 4110
E: info@antislavery.org

Business Travellers Against Human Trafficking

http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/campaign

"Every year thousands of young women and children are being trafficked and forced into prostitution and forced labour. Business travellers can be a part of the problem buying sexual services from those held as slaves, or part of the solution reporting suspicious activities and showing hotels and businesses that they will not be associated with those who are complicit in this crime. The campaign “Business Travellers against Human Trafficking” exists to give you the opportunity to help change the situation for good."

Email: mailto:businesstravellers@oasisglobal.org

Online Reporting Tool: http://www.businesstravellers.org/archives/contact-us/
 

Captive Daughters

http://captivedaughters.org/
Captive Daughters is the first anti-trafficking group established in California. We focus solely on ending the sexual bondage of female adolescents and children. The organization was inspired by the founding director's stay in Nepal, where she learned firsthand about sex trafficking. Upon returning to the United States in 1995 she began researching trafficking and discovered a fragile network of groups struggling to educate the public on trafficking both here and abroad. In an effort to strengthen that movement, she and a committed group of individuals established Captive Daughters as a non-profit organization in 1997.

Blog:  The Captive Diaries

CCEM
Comité Contre l'Esclavage Moderne
French-based NGO which fights contemporary forms of slavery in Europe and offers victim support.
Coordinating the Daphne Project (00/017/WC) (see below).

Committee Against Modern Slavery

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/pubvio.htm

Coalition against Trafficking in Women
Publications on Violence against Women and Sexual Exploitation by Professor Donna M. Hughes of Rhode Island University.

316 Eleanor Roosevelt Hall
T: 401-874-2757 
F: 401-874-4527
E: dhughes@uri.edu
Donna M. Hughes

 
Coatnet

http://www.coatnet.org/en/

International network of Christian organisations against trafficking in women. Based on national anti-trafficking networks in these countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Coatnet can mediate contact to organisations that focus their efforts to help trafficked women and fight against trafficking in women.

E: info@coatnet.org

Council of Europe

http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/Trafficking/

The Council was set up to defend human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law, develop continent-wide agreements to standardise member countries' social and legal practices, promote awareness of a European identity based on shared values and cutting across different cultures.

Actions Taken: http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/trafficking/1_Overview/Introduction.asp#TopOfPage

Avenue de l’Europe 67075 Strasbourg Cedex
T: +33 (0)3 88 41 20 00
Information Point:
T: 33 (0)3 88 41 20 33
F: 33 (0)3 88 41 27 45
E:  infopoint@coe.int

 

Daphne Project (00/017/WC)

http://www.esclavagemoderne.org/VOT/UK/daphne.html

Two year project. Objective: to record, analyse, and promote information about the best methods of providing assistance to victims of trafficking in human beings, with the general aims of integration into destination countries or reintegration into the countries of origin.  The notion of trafficking in human beings encompasses exploitation through work or sex. This Internet site is intended for use first and foremost by NGOs working with victims of trafficking in human beings, as well as by law-enforcement agencies and legal authorities. It is also intended to serve as a source of information for politicians, local councillors, researchers, students, and journalists.

The project is co-ordinated by the Comité Contre l'Esclavage Moderne (CCEM) (Committee Against Modern Slavery), based in France: http://www.esclavagemoderne.org/VOT/UK/partenaires.html#ccem

International Organization for Migration: http://www.esclavagemoderne.org/VOT/UK/partenaires.html#oim
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking / Child Wise (ECPAT)

http://www.ecpat.org

Child Wise is an Australian non-for-profit organisation, with a mandate to address childrens rights and the prevention of child sexual abuse globally. Child Wise operates in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, specialising in development and implementation of participatory training programs, capacity building, addressing and preventing child abuse, awareness raising, community education, research and advocacy, law reform and policy development.

Child Wise is the Australian member of ECPAT International, a global network working in 77 countries to prevent sexual exploitation of children. Child Wise is also the Regional Focal Point Against Child Sexual Abuse, Violence and Exploitation for the NGO Group monitoring implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
European Commission (EC)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm

EC four main roles are to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council, to administer and implement Community policies, to enforce Community law (jointly with the Court of Justice) and to negotiate international agreements
European Council on Refugees and Exiles

http://www.ecre.org/research/smuggle.shtml

An overview of proposals addressing migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.
European Law Enforcement Organisation
EUROPOL

http://www.europol.eu.int/

Europol is the European Law Enforcement Organisation which aims at improving the effectiveness and co-operation of the competent authorities in the Member States in preventing and combating terrorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of crime.
European Union

http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/doc_centre/crime/trafficking/wai/
doc_crime_human_trafficking_en.htm

Trafficking in Human Beings:

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/trafficking_human_beings.html

 

Ex Oriente Lux

http://ex-oriente-lux.org/about.html

Activists for various NGOs who try to help the victims of forced prostitution. They collect first hand testimonies of victims and the offenders. (See: collection: http://ex-oriente-lux.org/witness.html) and believe that direct and authentic testimony is an important way to make the problem clear. Their only goal is to collect neutral statements, confessions and interviews, as a source of information for everybody who wants to understand the situation." Their mission is to deal with forced prostitution: with trafficking, dignity deprivation, kidnapping and murder; and regard forced prostitution and prostitution in general as two separate things.  Regarding the prostitution in general they see the "pimp" as the major source of all illegal trouble. "We would welcome prostitution as a business agreement between a sex-worker and a client, without a third party (pimp) being involved."

"Ex Oriente Lux" is a private non-profit charity project of RadioVision.info and is not a part of any NGO or governmental office.  They are anti-trafficking but not anti-prostitution.

Email: info@ex-oriente-lux.org

 
Foundation against Trafficking in Women (STV)

http://www.bayswan.org/FoundTraf.html

FOUNDATION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN (STV)
P.O.Box 1455, 3500 BL UTRECHT, The Netherlands
tel: 31-30-716044 Fax: 31-30-716084
email: fe@stv.vx.xs4all.nl

International contact: Lin Lap-Chew
Free the Slaves

http://www.freetheslaves.net

Founded on the belief that informed Americans would take action to end slavery if they were aware that the practice still existed today.  Mission is to end slavery worldwide. "Our chance for realizing this dream rests on the success of our specific approaches. These approaches—in turn—are informed by our guiding principles."
 
Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW)

http://www.gaatw.net/

The Global Alliance Against Traffic on Women (GAATW) is a network of non-governmental organisations from all regions of the world, who share a deep concern for the women, children and men whose human rights have been violated by the criminal practice of trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political, economic, social and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in persons and other human rights violations in the context of migratory movements for diverse purposes, including security of labour and livelihood.
Hughes, Donna

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/ukraine/auctioneng.htm

Topic areas include: violence, slavery, sexual exploitation, Islamic fundamentalism, and women's organized resistance to violence and exploitation. Frequently consulted by governments and non-governmental organizations on policy related to women's human rights, particularly on trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation. Her research has been supported by the U.S. State Dept, the Nat'l Inst. of Justice, the Nat'l Science Foundation, the Assoc. of American Colleges and Universities, the Norwegian Agency for Dev. Cooperation, the IOM, the COE, the CATW, the RI Board of Gov. for Higher Edu., Univ. of RI Foundation, the Univ. of RH Council for Research, and the Univ. of Bradford, UK.


Professor & Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair
Women's Studies Program University of Rhode Island
 

Donna M. Hughes
316 Eleanor Roosevelt Hall
University of Rhode Island
T: 401-874-2757
F: 401-874-4527
E: dhughes@uri.edu
Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/traffcamp/intro.html

Trafficking in persons — the illegal and highly profitable recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings for the purpose of exploiting their labor — is a slavery-like practice that must be eliminated. The trafficking of women and children into bonded sweatshop labor, forced marriage, forced prostitution, domestic servitude, and other kinds of work is a global phenomenon. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and use of physical force, and/or debt bondage to control their victims. Women are typically recruited with promises of good jobs in other countries or provinces, and, lacking better options at home, agree to migrate. Through agents and brokers who arrange the travel and job placements, women are escorted to their destinations and delivered to the employers. Upon reaching their destinations, some women learn that they have been deceived about the nature of the work they will do; most have been lied to about the financial arrangements and conditions of their employment; and all find themselves in coercive and abusive situations from which escape is both difficult and dangerous.
HumanTrafficking.org

http://www.humantrafficking.org/

The purpose of this Web site is to bring Government and 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.

Why this Web site?
In the Asian Regional Initiative Against Trafficking (ARIAT) meeting in 2000, and in other international initiatives, the participants proposed to promote cooperation and partnership among their governments, NGOs, international organizations, private sector, and civil society organizations in prevention, protection, reintegration and prosecution aspects of trafficking in persons. It was suggested that countries should build regional cooperation networks, including cooperation through the Internet, to combat the issue of human trafficking. As a result of the unanimous recommendation of the ARIAT meeting, this Web site is supported by the United States of America Department of State.

The HumanTrafficking.org project is being implemented by the Academy for Educational Development with funding provided by the U.S. State Department.
 
iabolish - Anti-Slavery Portal

http://www.iabolish.com/

Project of the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), a grass-roots organization founded in 1993 to combat slavery around the world.
International Center for the Prevention of Crime

http://www.crime-prevention-intl.org/

The ICPC is an international forum for national governments, local authorities, public agencies, specialised institutions, and non-government organisations to exchange experience, consider emerging knowledge, and improve policies and programmes in crime prevention and community safety. The ICPC staff monitor developments, provide direct assistance to members, and contribute to public knowledge and understanding in the field. The ICPC's action seeks to:

Enhance awareness of, and access to, its international knowledge base on prevention and human safety policies and intervention.

Promote the implementation of best practices and tools enhancing community safety.

Facilitate rewarding international exchanges between countries and cities, the justice system and civil society associations.

Provide technical assistance and facilitate expert interaction.
INTERPOL

http://www.interpol.int/Public/THB/Women/Default.asp

Interpol exists to help create a safer world. Our aim is to provide a unique range of essential services for the law enforcement community to optimise the international effort to combat crime.

The trafficking of women for sexual exploitation is an international, organized, criminal phenomenon that has grave consequences for the safety, welfare and human rights of its victims.

Trafficking in women is a criminal phenomenon that violates basic human rights, and totally destroying victims' lives. Countries are affected in various ways. Some see their young women being lured to leave their home country and ending up in the sex industry abroad. Other countries act mainly as transit countries, while several other receive foreign women who become victims of sexual exploitation.

It is a global problem in which Interpol actively seeks to increase and improve international law enforcement co-operation in order to help combat this crime.

Interpol derives its actions from such conventions as the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the additional Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons.
They give guidelines for law enforcement action and the following are some examples of those actions:

The protocol urges an increase in the information exchange between states in order to determine

whether individuals crossing or attempting to cross an international border with travel documents belonging to other persons or without travel documents are perpetrators or victims of trafficking in persons,
the types of travel document that individuals have used or attempted to use to cross an international border for the purpose of trafficking in persons, and
the means and methods used by organized criminal groups for the purpose of trafficking in persons, including the recruitment and transportation of victims, routes and links between and among individuals and groups engaged in such trafficking, and possible means for detecting them.
 

International Human Rights Law Group

http://www.hrlawgroup.org/

Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in countries around the world, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change.
We seek justice for victims of human rights abuses.
We work to promote racial and gender equality and help people and communities feel empowered to change their societies.
We work on the ground, over extended periods of time, partnering with local human rights advocates to strengthen their effectiveness in combating abuses in their countries.
We focus on developing the skills of local activists that are essential to addressing human rights concerns and promoting justice such as: documenting and exposing abuses, conducting community education and mobilization, advocating legal and policy reform in countries and internationally, and using the courts to increase access to justice for disadvantaged populations.
We help local activists to engage with the international community, including the United Nations, to further their human rights objectives at home.
International Justice Mission

http://www.ijm.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=405&srcid=178

Christian organization. Helps people suffering injustice and oppression who cannot rely on local authorities for relief. The agency documents and monitors conditions of abuse and oppression, educates the church and public about the abuses, and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims.

http://www.ijm.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=406&srcid=405

PO Box 58147
Washington, DC 20037-8147
703.465.5495
Fax: 703.465.5499
www.ijm.org
International Labour Organization (ILO)

http://www.ilo.org/

Child Trafficking
2002-ILO-IPEC developed a programme to combat the trafficking of children and young people for labour and sexual exploitation in Albania, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. First phase sought to identify strategy for concerted action against trafficking.

International Labour Office Millbank Tower 21-24 Millbank London SW1P 4QP
T: +44 (0)20 7828 6401
F: +44 (0)20 7233 5925
E: London@ilo-london.org.uk

International Organization for Migration

http://www.iom.ch

Leading international organization for migration

17, Route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 19 - Switzerland
T: 41/22/717 9111 
F: 41/22/798 6150
E: info@iom.int

International Rescue Committee Anti-Trafficking Action Coalition (ATAC)

http://www.theirc.org/trafficking/

 

IRC Anti-trafficking
122 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10168
T: 212 551 3000
E: info@theirc.org
W: IRC Media Center

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

http://www.osce.org/activities/13029.html

"The ultimate goal of all our anti-trafficking work, measures and activities must ba a clear reduction of this horrendous crime and human rights violation. Anti-trafficking initiatives must offer real prospects of escaping the cycle of poverty, abuse and exploitation."
Helga Konrad, Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
 
Polaris Project

http://www.polarisproject.org/polarisproject/

Polaris Project is a multicultural grassroots organization combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Based in the United States and Japan, we bring together community members, survivors, and professionals to fight trafficking and slavery in the spirit of a modern-day Underground Railroad.

Multicultural grassroots non-profit agency, based in the US and Japan, combating sex trafficking and modern-day slavery. They work with women in the sex industry who have endured violence from their traffickers, including psychological abuse, beatings, death threats, and sexual assault. Identify victims, provide services, conduct advocacy and technical trainings.

Co-Executive Directors
Katherine Chon
E:  KChon@PolarisProject.org
Derek Ellerman
E:  DEllerman@PolarisProject.org

 

Prostitution Research & Education 

http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/

The purpose of Prostitution Research & Education is to abolish the institution of prostitution while at the same time advocating for alternatives to prostitution - including emotional and physical healthcare for women in prostitution. A purpose of PRE is to give voice to those who are among the world's most disenfranchised groups: prostituted/trafficked women and children. The project's goal is to empower this constituency by documenting their perspectives through research, public education, and arts projects.

Melissa Farley, PhD

Trafficking: http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-trafficking.html

Services for those escaping prostitution: http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-escaping-prostitution.html
Protection Project

http://www.protectionproject.org/

Legal human rights research institute based at  Johns Hopkins University. Documents and disseminates information about the scope of the trafficking problem. Focus on national and international laws, legal cases and the implications of trafficking in other areas of US and international foreign policy.

Establishing An International Framework For The Elimination Of Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women and Children.

The goal of the Protection Project is to research and document the global scope of the problem of trafficking in persons and, through the dissemination of relevant and timely information, to influence policy and practice in the war against trafficking.

Rescue and Restore Campaign

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking

Public outreach campaign to boost awareness of assistance available to victims. Designed to increase the number of identified trafficking victims and to help those victims receive the benefits and services needed to live safely in the U.S. A critical component of the Rescue & Restore campaign is the creation of the Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline, 1.888.3737.888, which connects victims of trafficking to Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) who can help victims in their local area.

US Dept of Health & Human Services

See Rights

http://www.seerights.org/


South East European Regional Initiative against Human Trafficking

South Eastern Europe

   
Stop Demand Foundation

http://www.stopdemand.org/wawcs016272/home.html

Mission:
To promote a world free of all forms of sexual violence against, and sexual exploitation of, children with a particular focus on challenging the demand for sex with children

P.O Box 41-400,
St Lukes Auckland 1030
New Zealand
T: 64 9 846 4693
F: 64 9 846 7614
E: action@stopdemand.org
Denise Ritchie

 
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

http://www.unifem.org/

Promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

http://www.unhcr.ch/

Mandated to lead and coordinate international action for the worldwide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT)

http://www.unhabitat.org

 

http://www.unhabitat.org/hd/hdv9n2/10.asp

United Nations International Child Development Centre (UNICEF)

http://www.unicef.org/

Advocate for children's rights and to help meet the needs of children worldwide.

The End Child Exploitation Campaign  
UNICEF UK,
Unit 1 Rignals Lane,
Galleywood, Chelmsford CM2 8TU
T: 0870 606 3377
F: 01245 477394
E: helpdesk@unicef.org.uk

(See: http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/other_stories/sextraffic.asp and http://www.endchildexploitation.org.uk/issue_child_trafficking.asp)

 

United States State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

http://www.state.gov/g/tip

Trafficking in Persons Reports
The most comprehensive report on human trafficking around the world and what governments are doing to end it. The 2004 report includes analysis of 140 countries' efforts to combat trafficking, best practices worldwide, a summary of U.S. action to fight human trafficking at home, and new data on the scope of this tragic phenomenon.

The Trafficking in Persons Report serves as the primary diplomatic tool through which the U.S. Government encourages partnership and increased determination in the fight against forced labor and sexual exploitation

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Ambassador John R. Miller
Main address:
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
T: 202-647-4000

 
World Health Organization (WHO)

http://www.who.int/home-page/

Trafficking of women

Trafficking of women and girls is becoming an increasingly lucrative business, particularly in countries of south-eastern Europe, and war torn zones of the Region. Girls and women from the poorest countries are at particular risk of being abused. Apart from the psychological effects and humiliation most of the women are at high risk of sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and unwanted pregnancies.

The reproductive health and research programme is working closely with the regional and global women's health programmes to develop strategies to prevent trafficking and to protect the victims in particular through working with health service providers in high risk areas such as Kosovo, to recognize the signs of trafficking and to provide help as needed.   
World Vision

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With backing from the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), World Vision is launching a child sex tourism prevention program in Cambodia, Thailand, Costa Rica, and the United States. In partnership with ICE, World Vision will train and alert its local staff in these countries to assist law enforcement in identifying American sex tourists and providing information that could assist in their prosecution.

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