The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a worker-based human rights organization focusing
on social responsibility in corporate supply chains, human trafficking, gender-based
violence at work and occupational health and safety
The Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) is the first center
in the United States devoted to understanding the links among terrorism, transnational
crime and corruption, and to teach, research, train and help formulate policy on these
critical issues.
ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, was established
in 1962. An integral part of the infrastructure of social science research, ICPSR
maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research
and instruction.
The Equality Model was developed by listening to survivors of the sex trade, who are
the ultimate authorities on their own experiences. At the heart of this model is their
belief that treating prostituted or trafficked persons as victims of a crime, and
not criminals themselves, is a critical first step in the fight for an exploitation-free
world. But we can’t stop there. Advocates for the Equality Model believe that the
provision of much-needed social services, and an embrace of policies that promote
economic justice, are necessary in order to help those who seek to exit the sex trade
stay out of the sex trade.
Through the funding of rigorous research and evaluation, NIJ is committed to assisting
with the detection, measurement, and prevention of human trafficking and with identifying
best practice services for people who are victims of trafficking.
Polaris works to reshape the systems that allow for sex and labor trafficking in North
America and operates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.
The United States Department of Justice, also known as the Justice Department, is
a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement
of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent
to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.
The TIP Office leads the Department’s global efforts to combat human trafficking through
the prosecution of traffickers, the protection of victims, and the prevention of human
trafficking by: objectively analyzing government efforts and identifying global trends,
engaging in and supporting strategic bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, targeting
foreign assistance to build sustainable capacity of governments and civil society,
advancing the coordination of federal anti-trafficking policies across agencies, managing
and leveraging operational resources to achieve strategic priorities, and engaging
and partnering with civil society, the private sector, and the public to advance the
fight against human trafficking.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), Pub. L. No. 106- 386, in 2000,
equipped the U.S. Government with new tools and resources to mount a comprehensive
and coordinated campaign to eliminate modern forms of slavery domestically and internationally.