Anti-Trafficking

There are many organizations and efforts working to end human trafficking (anti-trafficking). Some of these efforts include:

  • Increasing awareness and education about human trafficking, so that people can recognize the signs and take action to prevent it.
  • Enacting and enforcing strong laws against human trafficking, to hold traffickers accountable for their crimes and to provide protections for victims.
  • Providing support and services for victims of human trafficking, including medical care, counseling, legal assistance, and safe housing.
  • Working with law enforcement agencies and governments to investigate and prosecute traffickers and to rescue and protect victims.
  • Partnering with businesses and organizations to create ethical supply chains and to prevent trafficking in their operations.
  • Engaging with communities and grassroots organizations to address the root causes of trafficking and to empower people to take action to prevent it.

Overall, the efforts to end human trafficking involve a combination of legal, social, and economic approaches, and require the participation and cooperation of governments, civil society, and the private sector.

Multiple stories: Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation, Without Sex Buyers…, Online Grooming Training, more
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Multiple stories: Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation, Without Sex Buyers…, Online Grooming Training, more

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation Six adolescents in Iowa and Nebraska are safe following a recent human trafficking investigation. Federal, state and local police in Iowa and Nebraska freed the children as part of a nationwide law enforcement campaign dubbed “Operation Cross Country,” according to a statement from the FBI’s…

Misperceptions about labor trafficking in Colorado: Antonio's experience – 9News
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Misperceptions about labor trafficking in Colorado: Antonio's experience – 9News

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Labor trafficking is a widespread problem occurring in many different industries. Human traffickers often seem legitimate, but lure in workers.  COLORADO, USA — PAID FOR BY the Colorado Human Trafficking Council Antonio was pursuing a job opportunity in the United States in the restaurant industry. Instead, he was trafficked. Labor traffickers are operating in Colorado and…

Jamaican farmworkers in Canada organize against “systemic slavery”
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Jamaican farmworkers in Canada organize against “systemic slavery”

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Jamaican nationals temporarily working in Canada under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) have exposed their experiences of “systemic slavery” at the hands of exploitative employers. Workers raise issues with Jamaica’s Labor Minister Jamaica’s Labor Minister, Karl Samuda, has been touring farms in Canada where Jamaicans are working. In a letter to Samuda, a group…

U.K. anti-slavery tsar post remains unfilled
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U.K. anti-slavery tsar post remains unfilled

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The U.K. Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s post has been vacant for four months sparking concerns that the Home Office is intentionally failing to find a replacement to avoid scrutiny on key pieces of modern slavery legislation. A “critical time” Dame Sara Thornton who previously filled the role has called on the government to urgently find her…

Trafficking victims could be sent to Rwanda because of flawed screening process
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Trafficking victims could be sent to Rwanda because of flawed screening process

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Lawyers have raised the alarm over the possibility of trafficking victims being sent to Rwanda by the U.K. government to have their asylum claims processed, thanks to an “inherently flawed” screening process. Trafficking victims caught up in inhumane plan The government has come under intense criticism for its plan to send people attempting to cross…

Why Work for Love Justice International?
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Why Work for Love Justice International?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: PBJ Learning is non-denominational. This material is meant to provide a look at the culture of the movement. Certified as one of the Best Christian Workplaces in 2021 and 2022, Love Justice International (LJI) is a Christian nonprofit organization whose mission is sharing the love of Jesus Christ by fighting the world’s greatest…

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Human trafficking syndicate: Victims narrate ordeal – The Citizen

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Like elsewhere in the world, scores of women and girls in Tanzania live in the shadow of human trafficking, whether lured and ensnared or fraud, but they generally live in limbo, fear and pain. Human trafficking is a heinous crime that shatters lives, families and dreams as the country’s…

Radical Empathy raising funds to put their interactive anti-trafficking education experience in a web browser
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Radical Empathy raising funds to put their interactive anti-trafficking education experience in a web browser

ByBilly Joe Cain

For my 55th birthday, I hope you’ll consider contributing as a way to celebrate with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGhddZm0_h0 Hey everybody!! I want to jump right into this, tell you why I care about human trafficking, and explain why I need your help now more than ever. Children are innocent and vulnerable to being tricked. Adults take…