World Day Against Trafficking In Persons 2020

Today on July 30, we honor World Day Against Trafficking In Persons, though our gatherings and events look different this year. Last year we partnered with Ark of Freedom Alliance for SUNFlower (#SeeUsNow) Proclamation and Awareness Rally, see more from that event here. This year, we’ve gathered various virtual events, trainings and livestreams to learn more and get-involved day-of, and have compiled an extensive list of resources so you can advocate and support this issue year-around.

Kristi House’s Project GOLD provides outreach and services to children exploited in sex trafficking to help them escape dangerous lives at the hands of traffickers and predators.

Project GOLD brought the Miami service provider community together around the issue of child sex trafficking in 2007, developed its program, and has been a leader nationally on the issue. The Project GOLD Drop In Center uses a strengths-based, survivor-advised approach to provide health, social and legal services linkages, mental health support and educational enrichment to sexually exploited girls. Kristi House partners with Ark of Freedom Alliance with the help of funding by the U.S. Department of Justice to provide outreach and services to LGBTQ youth overcoming sex trafficking.

Day-of Events: (times in EST)

10 AM – Recognizing Response – Committed to the Cause: Highlighting the Role of Responders to Trafficking (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
NOON – Drugs as Coercion: Responding to Drug-Facilitated Human Trafficking (Ark of Freedom Alliance)

Learn:

CSEC 101 (Kristi House) – Free
An Overview of Child Sex Trafficking (National Human Trafficking Resource Center) – Free
Human Trafficking Awareness of Educators (National Human Trafficking Resource Center) – Free
Preventing, Recognizing, and Responding to Human Trafficking (Monique Burr Foundation) – Free
Child Exploitation – Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Darkness to Light) – $5
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking 101 (Shared Hope) – $40
Gang Trap Interactive Course (Shared Hope) – $50
More Trainings (National Human Trafficking Hotline and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Watch:

I am Jane Doe – I AM JANE DOE chronicles the epic battle that several American mothers are waging on behalf of their middle-school daughters, victims of sex-trafficking on Backpage.com, the adult classifieds site that for years was part of the Village Voice.
Lost Girls – Desperate to find her missing daughter, a mother fights to uncover the truth — and helps expose a string of unsolved murders. Based on a true story.
Rape for Profit – Set against the backdrop of Seattle’s downtown city lights, “Rape For Profit” takes the audience undercover for an up-close look at the true nature of the sex trade. The film unveils a growing problem in major U.S. cities where girls as young as 12 years old are bought and sold as many as 15 times a night to service the desires of men.
Very Young Girls – A 2007 human trafficking documentary following 13- and 14-year-old African-American girls as they are seduced, abused, and sold on New York’s streets by pimps, while being treated as adult criminals by police.

Read:

Lost Girls, by Robert Kolker
Girls Like Us, by Rachel Lloyd
Sex Trafficking, by Siddharth Kara
The Johns, by Victor Malarek

Listen:

Talk for Freedom Podcast – Discussing various topics about human trafficking and shining a light on this crime.
End Human Trafficking Podcast – This biweekly podcast will challenge you to study the issues related to human trafficking, become an educated voice in understanding this global problem, and ultimately make a difference in helping bring it to an end. Sandra Morgan, Director of the Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University of Southern California and Dave Stachowiak, Board Member of the Center, explore issues in each episode that will help educate you to be a helpful voice in ending human trafficking.
Sold in America – Sold in America is an eight-episode journey into the world of selling sex in the United States. Hosted by journalist and activist Noor Tagouri, this deeply personal, deeply reported series takes listeners across the country to meet the human faces of this billion-dollar trade – and uncovers its surprising misconceptions.