Gear Up! (Get the Truth)
The following websites provide a wealth of knowledge about modern-day slavery and how we can fight it. Abolition!
Not For Sale http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/
The Amazing Change http://www.theamazingchange.com/
Polaris Project www.polarisproject.org/
Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking http://www.iast.net/
Free the Slaves http://www.freetheslaves.net/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=183&srcid=-2
Trafficking in Persons Report (June 2007)
Movies: Amazing Grace ('07), Trade ('07)
Books: Not For Sale by David Batstone, Disposable People by Kevin Bales, The Natashas by Victor Malarek, Be the Change by Zach Hunter, A Crime So Monstrous by E. Benjamin Skinner.
Team Up! (Get Involved)
Organizations Around the World
NightLight http://www.nightlightbangkok.com/
...a ministry in urban Bangkok, which reaches out to women and children working in the bar areas of Nana/Sukhumvit. Located in a neighborhood with a growing sex trade, Nightlight's vision is to share the Light of the world in both word and deed to those who live in darkness. To know more visit their website at
The RugMark Foundation. RugMark is the international nonprofit organization devoted to building schools, programs and opportunities that give children back their childhoods by ending child labor in the handmade carpet industry in South Asia.
Project Rescue http://www.projectrescue.com/
Hagar Project http://www.hagarproject.org/
Childvoice International http://www.childvoiceintl.org/
Domestic Organizations
Center to Restore Trafficked and Exploited Children www.crtec.org
Innocence Atlanta http://www.innocenceatlanta.org/
Organizations focused both Abroad and Stateside
International Justice Mission (IJM) is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems. To read more visit their website at http://www.ijm.org/
Make Way Partners http://www.makewaypartners.org/
SharedHope International http://www.sharedhope.org/