Women and girls are objectified, dehumanized, exploited, bought and sold as sex slaves around the world. From suburbia to websites, women are being violated and victimized by the buyers and the sellers. It is a lucrative business for individual pimps, gangs, small providers and large corporations. Large corporations may make as much as $1,000,000,000 dollars in one year from products sold to users and viewers. The following organizations need your help to stop this war against women.

Black and Missing

Black and Missing Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring awareness to missing persons of color.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)

CATW’s worldwide network engages in ongoing projects and campaigns that combat human trafficking by focusing on prevention, education, gender equality, legislation, direct services for victims and ending the demand that fuels sex trafficking. Their projects and campaigns are centered on survivors’ human rights and advocate for the protection of victims and the punishment of the perpetrators of sexual exploitation.

Demand Abolition

Demand Abolition’s CEASE Network (Cities Empowered Against Sexual Exploitation) is a collaboration of pioneering cities committed to ending exploitation caused by prostitution and sex trafficking. Stop the demand for paid sex. In crease accountability for buyers. The network works with survivor leaders, criminal justice professionals, researchers, policy makers, the media and more.

Ecpat USA

Ecpat USA mission is to protect every child’s human right to grow up free from the threat of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Global Centurian

Global Centurion Foundation is a non-profit organization fighting human trafficking by focusing on the demand side of the equation the perpetrators, exploiters, buyers, and end-users of human beings who fuel the market for forced labor and commercial sex. In this way, they seek to prevent modern slavery at its source, since it is the buyers who create and fuel the market for sex and labor trafficking.

In Our Backyard (IOB)

In Our Backyard (IOB) links arms across America in the fight against human trafficking through education, partnership, and mobilization.

MISSING KIDS

Missing Kids is a national clearinghouse and comprehensive reporting center for all issues related to the prevention and recovery from child victimization. The organization works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public to assist with preventing child abduction, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat sexual exploitation.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

As the nation's clearinghouse and comprehensive reporting center for all issues related to the prevention of and recovery from child victimization, NCMEC leads the fight against abduction, abuse, and exploitation - because every child deserves a safe childhood.

National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is the leading national organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health crisis of pornography.

National Human Trafficking Hotline

The National Human Trafficking Hotline connects victims and survivors of sex and labor trafficking with services and supports to get help and stay safe. The National Hotline also receives tips about potential situations of sex and labor trafficking and facilitates reporting that information to the appropriate authorities in certain cases.

New Friends New Life

New Friends New Life restores and empowers formerly trafficked teen girls and sexually exploited women and their children. By providing access to education, job training, interim financial assistance, mental health and spiritual support, New Friends New Life helps women and their children overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, poverty and limited opportunities.

Organization for Prostitute Survivors (Ops)

OPS provides psychosocial accompaniment to survivors of prostitution, co-creating and sustaining efforts to heal from and end this practice of gender-based violence.

PolariS

Polaris serves survivors of human trafficking through the 24/7 National Human Trafficking Hotline. It uses data-driven strategies to prevent and disrupt human trafficking, coordinates with referral partners nationwide, enlists law enforcement and others to support survivors, prevent and disrupt trafficking, a $150 billion industry that robs 25 million people around the world of their freedom.

Rights4Girls

Rights4Girls is a human rights organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence against young women and girls in the U.S. They work to change the narrative as well as policies that allow girls to be criminalized when they are victimized; and advocate for approaches that provide girls and young women with safety and support.

Saving Innocence

Saving Innocence helps children escape trafficking. The organization works when law enforcement intervenes, advocates for the child, transports the child to the hospital, gives the child support through the justice system. Saving Innocence serves, empowers, prevents and advocates for child victims of sex trafficking.

Slavery No More

The mission of Slavery No More is toresource a diversity of the most effective organizations working to combat and abolish modern-day slavery and human trafficking, and to create awareness and a diversity of opportunities for meaningful personal engagement.

Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA)

The Texas Association Against Sexual Assault is committed to ending sexual violence in Texas through education, prevention and advocacy. The organization supports survivors on their paths to hope, healing and justice. TAASA is the voice of the sexual assault movement in Texas that is the unifying force bringing together parties involved in and affected by sexual assault as a catalyst for change.

Thorn

Thorn is a full-time team of nearly 40 staff and contractors, working from 12 different states to unleash the power of technology on behalf of vulnerable children. The organization works to eliminate child sexual abuse from the internet and child sex trafficking.

Trafficking Matters

Trafficking Matters provides a resource portal, news, trending cases and articles by experts in the anti-trafficking field. It is a project of the Human Trafficking Institute. Their goal is to bring human traffickers to justice.

Vday.org

V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women. It uses the power of art to transform and inspire people to act to stop the violence toward women.

World Without Exploitation

World Without Exploitation is a movement to end human trafficking ad exploitation. This organization is committed to eradicating the market for coerced or unpaid labor that drives the multi-billion dollar trade in trafficking.

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Sex trafficking is big business and it is happening in your city. It is everyone’s business to stop it.