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Forced labour and Slavery. Human trafficking in Virginia is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Virginia, and it is widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery. It includes "the recruitment, transportation, transfer ...
List. 8th Day Center for Justice, a Roman Catholic organization based in Chicago, Illinois. A21 Campaign, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to fight human trafficking. ACT Alberta, a Canadian coalition of Government of Alberta representatives, non-governmental organizations, community organisations, and the Royal ...
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women ( CATW) is an international radical feminist non-governmental organization opposing human trafficking, prostitution, and other forms of commercial sex. [1] It has been described as a "neo-abolitionist lobby group" that represents a " carceral feminist anti-trafficking practice," and has been criticized ...
Website. sharedhope .org. Shared Hope International ( SHI) is a non-profit, non-governmental, Christian organization that exists to prevent sex trafficking, and restore and bring justice to women and children who have been victimized through sex trafficking. SHI is part of a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery.
Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking: based in Clearwater, Florida. FCAHT's founder, Anna Rodriguez, had her first experience with a human trafficking case in 1999; U.S. vs. Tecum. Rodriguez served as a victim advocate with the Collier County Sheriff's Office and an outreach coordinator for the Immokalee Shelter for Abused Women in ...
Celia Williamson. Celia Williamson is an American University of Toledo Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Executive Director of the Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute, as well as researcher and community advocate who seeks to combat domestic human trafficking and prostitution. She was named the 26th most influential social ...
Polaris Project. 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 ...
Kathleen Barry. Kathleen Barry (born January 22, 1941) is an American sociologist and feminist. [1] After researching and publishing books on international human sex trafficking, she cofounded the United Nations NGO, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). [2] [3] In 1985 she received the Wonder Woman Foundation Award for her strides ...