Civil Society

Restore the honor and worth of commercial sex industry women appeals Redeemed Ministries from Houston. - Redeemed Ministries is a Christian based non-profit organization with the purpose to restore the honor, worth, and reputation of those who have been used in the commercial sex industry as a result of human trafficking both international and domestic.

Proyecto ESPERANZA, a Spanish NGO under the leadership of the Religious Order of the Sisters Adorers, develops a comprehensive program, offering safe shelter, medical, psychological, social and legal assistance to women who have been victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, domestic labor, marriage, forced labor and other slavery-like conditions.

Globalhood is a network of professionals with a mission to reduce global poverty and inequality through innovative international development projects that bring together people and knowledge from across disciplines and cultures.

 

The Global Alliance Against Traffic in 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.

 

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) founded in 1998 and launched by the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, works to identify and coordinate a global network of organizations fighting child-sexual exploitation and abduction.

 

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-International (CATW) is a non-governmental organization that promotes women's human rights by working internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms.

 

The Anti Trafficking Center (ATC) is a citizens' association with a mission of promoting universal human rights in Serbia and Montenegro and the region.

 

The International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR) is an international non-governmental organisation whose expertise resides in the sharing of knowledge and good practices and in the development of tools and models to inspire implementation of children's rights.

 

The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect's (ISPCAN) mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, street children, child fatalities, child prostitution, children of war, emotional abuse and child labor. ISPCAN is committed to increasing public awareness of all forms of violence against children, developing activities to prevent such violence, and promoting the rights of children in all regions of the world.

The Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation working exclusively against slavery and related abuses. Its main areas of work currently include forced and bonded labour, the worst forms of child labour, trafficking of human beings, and traditional or 'chattel' slavery.

 

Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery is a grass-roots effort that was initiated by Prof. Martin Patt, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts in 2004. It is one of three parallel efforts, the other two being Street Children and Child Prostitution. The three websites provide resources that facilitate inclusion of these topics in school and college curricula.

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.

 

LEFÖ - Counselling, Education and Support for Migrant Women - was founded in 1985 by a group of politically exiled Latin American women living in Vienna. 

 

ECPAT International - A global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes.

 

La Strada International - European Network Against Trafficking in Human Beings

 

 

Hasina Kharbhih - ASHOKA Fellow, Founder and President, Impulse NGO Network

 

 

Safe and Alive is a non-profit humanitarian organization that offers victims of human trafficking protection. It is the primary objective of SAFE AND ALIVE to establish safe houses where victims can get medical, psychological, social and judicial help. SAFE AND ALIVE also offers each victim an individually targeted rehabilitation plan, including education and employment opportunities.