Human trafficking is modern day slavery. It is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to provide labor or sex against their will, and is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world. An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Common age of of those sold into sexual slavery is 14-16, and some are as young as six years old. If you are a victim of this horrible crime or suspect someone who is, there is help available.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center
The NHTRC is a Dept. of Health & Human Services funded program that works to help improve the national response to protect victims of human trafficking in the U.S. by providing callers with crisis intervention, urgent and non-urgent referrals, tip reporting, and comprehensive anti-trafficking resources and technical assistance for the anti-trafficking field.
1-888-3737-8888 (24/7)
http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/national-human-trafficking-hotline/the-nhtrc/overview
The NHTRC is a Dept. of Health & Human Services funded program that works to help improve the national response to protect victims of human trafficking in the U.S. by providing callers with crisis intervention, urgent and non-urgent referrals, tip reporting, and comprehensive anti-trafficking resources and technical assistance for the anti-trafficking field.
1-888-3737-8888 (24/7)
http://www.polarisproject.org/what-we-do/national-human-trafficking-hotline/the-nhtrc/overview
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Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking
Concerned people in Northern Ohio advocating for the prevention and abolition of human trafficking. 440-356-2254 collaboriative_initiative@yahoo.com Ohio Human Trafficking Commission Commission minutes - statistics - data publications - annual report - resources www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/humantrafficking |
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Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force
Anti-Trafficking Updates - Awareness Campaign - Data & Reports - Funding - Laws - Ohio Coalitions - Ohio's Response - Request a Speaker - Victim Services
http://www.publicsafety.ohio.gov/ht/
Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road
Document of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/20451.php?index=20451&po_date=19.06.2007&lang=ge
Help for Victims of Trafficking Brochure
The FBI has someone who can help victims of crime and answer their questions. Victim Specialists are specially trained professionals working hand in hand with the FBI case agent during an investigation. They assist victims by providing support, information, and referrals to resources in the community.
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/victim_assistance/brochures-handouts/human-trafficking-english
Columbus Dispatch Report Shows Human Trafficking on the Rise in Ohio, Nationally
Human trafficking for sex and labor are on the rise in Ohio and the U.S., according to the annual report from the Polaris Project a nonprofit that tracks trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170131/report-shows-human-trafficking-on-rise-in-ohio-nationally
Ohio Ranks Fourth in the Country for Human Trafficking Cases
Why? "We have a lot of, five major highways, connected to Ohio. We also have a demand for services here in Ohio, unfortunately. We have a lot of strip clubs in communities. We have a need for, even for labor trafficking, with having a lot of farmland here in Ohio. The demand is just here for certain type of things,"
http://www.cleveland19.com/story/37287986/ohio-ranks-fourth-in-the-country-for-human-trafficking-cases
Share Hope International
Shared Hope International is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that exists to prevent sex trafficking and restore and bring justice to women and children who have been victimized through sex trafficking. SHI is part of a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery. The organization leads awareness and training, prevention strategies, restorative care, research, and policy initiatives to mobilize a national network of protection for victims.
https://sharedhope.org/
The Daughter Project
This NW Ohio group of Christians inspired to love and serve children and women rescued from human traffickers.
http://www.thedaughterproject.org
To Whom It May Concern
This trafficking awareness video has been created by Franciscans International, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and Artfully Unforgotten as part of FI's "Hear It First Hand" campaign
http://vimeo.com/21090820
Twenty-First Century Slavery
The Human Rights Dimension to Trafficking in Human Beings John Paul II
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/2002/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_20020515_tauran_en.html
The United States Response to Human Trafficking:
Achievements and Challenges
http://www.usccb.org/upload/US-Response-Human-Trafficking-Achievements-and-Challenges-2011.pdf