Update: Is Human Trafficking Happening Near You?
Jun 26, 2009
The United States of America is often referred to as the “free world,” but not everyone here has their freedom. In fact, the U.S. is a transit and destination country for trafficking in persons. It is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked to the U.S. annually. Not For Sale, an organization formed to combat trafficking, has created an online tool that will help bring awareness to this harsh reality. Slavery still exists, and it’s happening in our own backyards. Not For Sale created an interactive map that exists to record and display instances of human trafficking not only in the U.S., but across the globe. This interactive map is helping to create awareness around an issue that many Americans believe is non-existent in their country. Is human trafficking happening in your backyard? Go to the Slavery Map and find out.
“Every captive is a person; every survivor has a story. It’s time to show the world that slaves exist among us. Restaurants and fields, construction sites and brothels, suburbs and cities: all are home to victims of trafficking in the United States and abroad. Twenty-seven million slaves in the world, and we want to find them. Slavery Map exists to record and display instances of human trafficking across the globe. Whether you find them hidden in your hometown or covered in The New York Times, report the incidents onto this map for people everywhere to see. If you encounter a current situation of bondage, do not enter the information here. Please immediately call the US national trafficking hotline number so that the proper law enforcement and service providers can be alerted: 1-888-3737-888.”
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Slavery map does indeed spread awareness of the travesty of human trafficking in our own backyards, but it works effectively in other ways too.
It affects public policy. Politicians typically respond to conversations about modern day slavery by saying, “That doesn’t happen in MY district.” With slavery map, we can easily say “Well, actually Rep. Smith, it DOES>”
It was even effective in ending slavery within it’s first six months! In Oregon a group of nuns were planning their annual banquet at an area restaurant. The e-vites went out, and one invitee checked out the restaurant on Slavery Map to find that it had been, not once but twice, indicted for trafficking! He called and told the nun in charge of the banquet, who was horrified.
She, in turn, called the restaurant owner.”We can’t have our banquet there. You are traffickers”, she blustered. To which, the owner said “How did you know?!” The owner contacted the Oregon Not For Sale State Director to find out how he could be removed from slavery map! “Well, Scott said”, first you can stop trafficking! Then you can become a Free2Work company, certified as slave free through transparent hiring practices that we can monitor. The restaurant owner complied.
Word spread throughout the area restaurant owner’s association and soon people were clamoring to be certified as Free2Work establishments!