Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Useful Websites

www.humantrafficking.org
Very useful website with information on trafficking, news articles, and links to anti-trafficking organizations around the world.

UNODC Trafficking in Human Beings:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/trafficking_human_beings.html
Information on the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons and links to useful websites.

U.S. State Department:
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/
Information on the federal law against trafficking, Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and links to the yearly Trafficking in Persons Reports, which document the anti-trafficking efforts of countries worldwide.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
www.catwinternational.org
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is creating real and lasting changes in countries around the world by launching and supporting anti-trafficking projects in areas that few programs address: the links between prostitution and trafficking; challenging the demand for prostitution that promotes sex trafficking; and protecting the women and children who are its victims by working to curb legal acceptance and tolerance of the sex industry.


New York State Anti-Trafficking Organizations:

NY State Anti-Trafficking Coalition:
A group of organizations that have joined forces to advocate for an effective New York State law to criminalize traffickers and to protect and help victims of this abuse.
www.stophumantraffickingny.org

Equality Now:
The Campaign Against Sex Tourism/Trafficking addresses the commercial sexual exploitation of women in its campaign against sex tourism and trafficking.
www.equalitynow.org

Safe Horizon:
Safe Horizon assists survivors of human trafficking within the greater New York City area.
www.safehorizon.org

National Organization of Women – New York City:
NOW-NYC's human trafficking campaign started in the fall of 2006 to: get a state law that recognized trafficking as a crime, increase public education on this modern-day slavery, collect trafficking victims stories, access how state agencies are identifying, tracking and prioritizing this issue, and shed light on how the trafficking industry is a part of the local economy and identify the legitimate businesses that do business with traffickers.
www.nownyc.org/

No comments: