Around the world, individuals and organizations are raising awareness about trafficking and slavery, and working to end it forever. Below are some ideas for ensuring that women and girls live free from violence and slavery.

Learn More

Stay Informed. Sign up to receive email alerts about sexual trafficking and slavery worldwide.

Find out about sexual trafficking in your community and country. Search local newspapers, magazines and the Internet for articles about trafficking and slavery in your area. Use keywords like trafficking, prostitution, pornography, slavery, sex worker or pimp. Talk with university professors specializing in relevant fields, such as women's studies or criminal justice. Finally, talk with police officers and social service providers to learn what they are doing to end slavery.

Educate Others

• Create awareness kits using information from this site.
  
  
• Learn as much as you can and share that information with your friends and family. Create kits and hand them out to everyone you know.
  
  
• Hold a meeting. Get a group of interested people together to discuss sexual slavery.
  
  
• Reach out. Write articles, editorials and letters to the editor and send them to local newspapers and magazines.
  
  
• Contact the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The UNODC launched a global human trafficking awareness campaign and has joined forces with partners in more 40 countries to produce customized versions of video spots. Find out about showing them in your community and connecting with local partners.

Support Groups Working to End Sexual Slavery

Contact Soroptimist. Find out more about what Soroptimist clubs in your local area are doing to end sexual slavery.

Reach out to other organizations. Volunteer to help organizations working to end the sexual trafficking of women and girls.

Advocate for Stronger Laws and Enforcement

Advocate for stronger laws and enforcement in your community and country. It is the obligation of states to protect women and to end slavery. Find out what your elected representatives are doing to end slavery.

Use international laws. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, in effect since December 2003, makes human trafficking a crime. Thus far, 148 countries have ratified the protocol but few have taken steps to implement it. Governments that have ratified the protocol are responsible to act with good faith to prevent, investigate and punish any violation of rights recognized by these treaties. Find out if your country has ratified the protocol and if they are enforcing it.

Target law enforcement. Police officers are often the first involved when a woman is rescued. Contact your local law enforcement to find out what the protocol is for dealing with victims of slavery.

Donate

Even the smallest gift makes it possible for Soroptimist to continue to raise awareness about the sexual trafficking of women and girls. Poverty is one condition rendering women and girls vulnerable to trafficking. Soroptimist works to end poverty and create opportunities for women throughout the world. To make a donation, click here.

For more information about what you can do to end the sexual trafficking of women and girls, please contact program@soroptimist.org.

Additional resources:

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
www.castla.org

Coalition against Trafficking in Women: www.catwinternational.org

Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW): www.gaatw.org

End Child Prostitution and Trafficking / Child Wise: www.ecpat.org

International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol): www.interpol.com

The Protection Project:
www.protectionproject.org

Antislavery International:
www.antislavery.org

Free the Slaves:
www.freetheslaves.net

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