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  2. Polaris Project - Wikipedia

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    Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent injustices and inequities in our society and our economy.

  3. List of organizations that combat human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Physicians for Human Rights. Polaris, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent modern day slavery and human trafficking. PREDA Foundation, a charitable organization that was founded in Olongapo City, Philippines, in 1974. Prerana, a non-governmental organization ( NGO) that works in the red-light districts of ...

  4. Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000

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    The bill also amended the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to direct the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make a determination, based on credible evidence, that a covered individual (i.e., a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident) has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking.

  5. Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

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    The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation ( WHINSEC ), formerly known as the School of the Americas, [2] is a United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act. The institute was founded in 1946; by 2000, more than 60,000 Latin American ...

  6. Human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. It is distinct from people smuggling, which is characterized by the consent of the person being smuggled.

  7. Human trafficking in Serbia - Wikipedia

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    Serbia is a transit country for victims trafficked from Bosnia, Croatia, and Slovenia and destined for Italy and other countries. Internal sex trafficking of Serbian women and girls continued to increase as of 2007, comprising more than three-fourths of trafficking cases in 2007. Some children continue to be trafficked into forced labor or ...

  8. Human trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Terminology. Human trafficking is a form of slavery, involving the illegal smuggling and trading of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power from a position ...

  9. Sex trafficking - Wikipedia

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    e. Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. It has been called a form of modern slavery because of the way victims are forced into sexual acts non-consensually, in a form of sexual slavery. [1] Perpetrators of the crime are called sex traffickers or pimps —people who manipulate victims to engage in various ...