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Ride for Refuge, a cycling event that raises awareness and funds for displaced persons, [20] including human trafficking victims [21] Run for Courage, a nonprofit organization that combats human trafficking [22] Shared Hope International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis
Nace-DeGonda likes to say that social services for human trafficking survivors have gone from that infancy stage in the early 2000s to more of a toddler. The goal hasn't shifted, though.
Call to Freedom, a non-profit, is focused on bringing awareness to different forms of human trafficking, including labor and sex trafficking, and providing support for survivors, including trauma ...
This month the agency held a roundtable in Wilkes-Barre honoring Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Each year, victims of crime in Pennsylvania receive about $13 million from the Victims ...
The Exodus Road received a $60,000 grant to support their Freedom Home project in Thailand from the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking (UNVTF), managed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UNODC announced that The Exodus Road's Beyond Rescue project was selected for their fifth call for proposals under ...
In 2011 the European Union adopted the legislation Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. [2] It aims to make legislation and penalties more effective, ensuring successful prevention and prosecution on trafficking as well as enhanced protection of, and assistance to, victims. [ 2 ]
2. To assist countries in creating and strengthening support structures for victims of trafficking. The core areas of UN.GIFT's work are: 1. Global and collective advocacy efforts to help raise awareness of human trafficking; 2. Evidence-based knowledge on human trafficking to feed into national, regional and global policy-making; 3.
GOP Rep. Russell Fry of South Carolina led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in introducing a bill on Tuesday to create a federal law that would help survivors of human trafficking expunge their ...