FREEDOM NETWORK USA

Freedom Network USA is the nation’s largest coalition working to ensure that trafficked persons have access to justice, safety, and opportunity through our network of trafficking survivors, legal and service providers, researchers, advocacy organizations, and expert consultants. Our perspective is derived from the geographic scope and diverse expertise our members bring from working with survivors of trafficking in all forms of labor.

Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) works to engage in advocacy work nationwide, provide training and technical assistance, and increase the capacity of our members.

POLARIS PROJECT

Polaris is a leader in the global fight to eradicate modern slavery. Named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the U.S., Polaris systemically disrupts the human trafficking networks that rob human beings of their lives and their freedom. Our comprehensive model puts victims at the center of what we do – helping survivors restore their freedom, preventing more victims, and leveraging data and technology to pursue traffickers wherever they operate.

FREE THE SLAVES

ANTI SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL

IIECL

AFOP

NOT FOR SALE

LOVE146

THORN

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERANTIONAL

ALLIANCE 87

A21

Free The Slaves helps communities chart their own path toward sustainable freedom based on their unique needs and circumstances. They strengthen the capacity of grassroots organizations, government agencies, advocacy coalitions, and the media to take action. They support vulnerable communities through education, mobilization, and increasing access to education, vocational training, and essential services. They also rescue those in slavery and help them rejoin their families and communities. They record and share success stories so the world can see what both slavery and freedom look like. And they systematically assess their work to ensure accountability and continuously improve our programs. Free the Slaves co-implements all community projects with and through locally-based organizations. 

As the oldest human rights organisation in the world, Anti-Slavery International’s work to end slavery is based on over 180 years of experience in successfully combating slavery. Since 1839, they have developed a strong reputation in advancing the political agenda on slavery through cutting-edge research, advocacy, campaigns and work with local communities. They were involved in ending various manifestations of slavery in many corners of the world, including slavery in British colonies, abuses in Belgian Congo, Indian and Chinese ‘coolie’ systems and slavery in Peruvian Amazon.

The International Initiative to End Child Labor (IIECL), is a US-based, not-for-profit organization that conducts and/or provides education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, research, social accountability auditing, resources, program planning and design, and monitoring and evaluation services to public and private sector, non-governmental organizations, and international research and development institutions that seek to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the United States and around the world.

The mission of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) is to improve the quality of life for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families by promoting self-sufficiency through employment and training opportunities, educational attainment, and health and safety. Children in the Fields Campaign (CIFC), one of their many programs, has been dedicated to ensuring that farmworker children are protected and given an opportunity to succeed in life. By educating the public, advocating for educational programs for farmworker children, and supporting fair living wages for all farmworkers.

Not For Sale builds viable, successful companies and bakes into the very DNA of the company their Not For Sale values throughout the whole process — from the sourcing of the goods, to the manufacturing of product, to the way it is sold — and returns the profits back to the community.

Love146 is an international human rights organization working to end child trafficking and exploitation through survivor care and prevention. Love146 is helping grow the movement to end child trafficking while providing effective, thoughtful solutions. They believe in the power of love and its ability to effect sustainable change. Love is the foundation of their motivation.

Co-Founded by Ashton Kutcher, Thorn houses the first engineering and data science team focused solely on developing new technologies to combat online child sexual abuse. They bring together a team with deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise to innovate and deploy new technology solutions at a much faster rate. They are able to quickly assess whether new technologies can be repurposed to protect children from sexual exploitation through one of their three strategic pillars: 1) accelerating victim identification 2) equipping platforms, and 3) empowering the public.

As the principal United Nations office mandated to promote and protect human rights for all, OHCHR leads global human rights efforts speaks out objectively in the face of human rights violations worldwide. We provide a forum for identifying, highlighting and developing responses to today's human rights challenges, and act as the principal focal point of human rights research, education, public information, and advocacy activities in the United Nations system.

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. They are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. They direct their advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure their independence, they refuse government funding and corporate ties. They partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

Defence for Children International is a worldwide movement for children’s rights with National Sections and Associated Members active across the five continents. Each of DCI’s National Sections works on the child rights issues that are the most relevant to their respective national contexts. DCI’s International Secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It plays a crucial role in lobbying and advocating for children’s rights within United Nations human rights mechanisms.

Alliance 8.7 is an inclusive global partnership committed to achieving Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This Target calls for States to: take immediate action and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030 and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.

www.a21.org is one of the largest organizations in the world that is solely fighting human trafficking. At a local, domestic, and international level. All over the world, they are not just responding to trafficking that is already taking place, but they are actively working on the frontlines to prevent it from happening to begin with.