Around the world, individuals and organizations are raising knowledge about trafficking and slavery, and working to end it. The following are some things both small and large that you can do to help ensure that women and girls live free from violence and slavery.

Learn More

• Find out about sex trafficking in your community, your state, and your country. Do an online search in local and national newspapers and magazines as well as government agencies for articles about sex trafficking and slavery in your area. Use keywords such as trafficking, prostitution, pornography, slavery, sex worker, or pimp; restrict your search to news articles as well as by date to achieve the best results.
  
  
• Talk with area university professors specializing in relevant fields, such as women's studies or criminal justice. Ask them what their latest studies reveal and what research is currently under way.
  
  
• Finally, talk with police officers and social service providers in your area to learn what they are doing to end slavery. Ask what type of training programs are in place and what local resources are available.

Educate Others

• Learn as much as you can and share that information with your friends and family. Create awareness kits using information from this site and hand them out to everyone you know.
  
  
• Hold a meeting in your community. Organize a group of interested people to meet and discuss sex slavery.
  
  
• Reach out. Write editorials, letters to the editor, and informative articles and send them to local, state, and national newspapers and magazines.
  
  
• Contact the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The UNODC has joined forces with partners in more 40 countries to launch a global human trafficking awareness campaign and to produce video spots in versions customized for their intended audience. Find out how to have the videos shown in your community and how to connect with local partners.

Support Groups Working to End Sex Slavery

• Contact Soroptimist. Find out what Soroptimist clubs in your local area are doing to end sex slavery and trafficking.
  
  
• Reach out to other organizations. Volunteer to help other organizations that are working to end sex trafficking and slavery of girls and women.
  
  
• Advocate for Stronger Laws and Enforcement
  Become an advocate for stronger laws and law enforcement in your community, state, and country. It is the obligation of states to protect girls and women and to end trafficking and slavery. Find out what your elected representatives are doing to end slavery and how you can help
  
  
• Use international laws. The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, has been in effect since December 2003 and makes human trafficking a crime. Although 148 countries have ratified the protocol to date few have taken steps to enforce it. Governments that have ratified the protocol must act with good faith to prevent, investigate and punish any violation of rights that have been recognized by these treaties. Find out whether your country has ratified the protocol and if so whether they are enforcing it.
  
  
• Target law enforcement. Police officers are often the first involved when a woman is rescued from trafficking or slavery. Contact your local law enforcement to find out what training they have had and what the protocol is for handling victims of slavery.
  
  
• Report Suspected Incidents of Trafficking
  Report Suspected Incidents of Trafficking. In the United States you can call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center’s 24-hour toll-free hotline number at 888-3737-888. You will receive a number of available services to choose from including crisis intervention, urgent and non-urgent referrals, how to report tips, and a comprehensive list of anti-trafficking resources.
  

Donate

Even the smallest gift makes it possible for Soroptimist to continue to raise awareness about and help end sex trafficking of women and girls. Poverty is one condition rendering women and girls vulnerable to trafficking, so Soroptimist is working to end poverty and to create new opportunities for girls and women throughout the world. To make a donation, click here.

For more information about what you can do to end slavery and sex trafficking of women and girls, please contact program@soroptimist.org.

Additional resources:

Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
www.castla.org

Coalition against Trafficking in Women: www.catwinternational.org

End Child Prostitution and Trafficking/Child Wise: www.ecpat.org

International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol): www.interpol.com

The Protection Project:
www.protectionproject.org

Antislavery International:
www.antislavery.org

Free the Slaves:
www.freetheslaves.net

Shared Hope International
www.sharedhope.org

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