National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
11 January 2009
This past Sunday at BayLight we observed National Human Trafficking Awareness Day with a short presentation on the issue. Here again are a some of the resources mentioned in Sunday’s presentation:
Organizations Fighting Slavery
Global:
International Justice Mission – www.ijm.org
The Salvation Army – www.salvationarmyusa.org/trafficking
WorldVision – www.worldvision.org
Regional:
AIM / Rahab’s House in Cambodia – www.aim4asia.org
Generación Institute in Peru – www.notforsalefund.org/projects.html
Hagar International in Southeast Asia – www.hagarproject.org
Regina Pacis in Italy – www.reginapacis.org/en
Transformational Business Network based in London – www.tbnetwork.org
San Francisco:
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach – www.apilegaloutreach.org
Not For Sale Campaign – www.notforsalecampaign.org
Standing Against Global Exploitation – www.sagesf.org
YWAM’s Because Justice Matters – www.becausejusticematters.org
Books on Slavery
Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
David Batstone, Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery