The Polaris Project Was Founded By Derek Ellerman And Katherine Chon

Katherine Chon is currently a Senior Advisor in Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has testified before Congress concerning the scope of human trafficking and has won numerous awards for her work in the field.

Human trafficking has been known to be a tragic and unfortunate crime of the 21st century. Social workers, policy makers, and other human service providers must understand the various policies and forms of legislative involvement that are working towards combatting this issue. For the purposes of this policy analysis, I will be analyzing The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the implications that it has for social workers and those who are invested in working towards abolishing this social issue.

Human trafficking is a serious problem in modern society. In fact, the United Nations has referred to it as “one of the gravest human rights violations of our times” (“Secretary - General Calls Human Trafficking”). It is a fast growing industry that affects millions. No gender, age, or status is spared from the cruelty that is trafficking. To stress this point again, human trafficking is not just a problem of the “world” or “United States”, in general. As previously seen, it strikes very close to home, affecting hundreds of men, women, and children of our own community. In fact, “North Carolina ranked as a top-10 state for human trafficking with Charlotte being the top destination. It is estimated that more than 1,700 girls are trafficked

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Polaris Project fights to do away with slavery of the modern age. They focus on responding to victims efficiently and without delay. They provide communities and stakeholders the resources to address and prevent human trafficking. Doing so, disrupts the criminal enterprises network of human trafficking business. Polaris offers national hotlines, global hotlines, client services, texting hotlines, government relations, advisory services, data analysis, and strategic interventions (Polaris, 2017). Overall, this organization is dedicated to eradicating human trafficking and all avenues in which it operates.

In recent years, the topic of human trafficking – or modern day slavery as many call it – has captured the attention of the American public. Realizing that slavery, a problem thought to have been fixed a century ago, was still growing rampant in the world, Americans became indignant. As a result, countless campaigns, fundraisers and organizations have been formed to try and alleviate the problem. The type of trafficking that scares the population the most would be the sex trafficking of thousands of women and girls each year. However, other forms of human trafficking such as forced labor and trafficking humans for organs, are just as big an issue in America, as well as throughout the entire world.

The impact of human trafficking can be felt all throughout the United States in all 50 state including Washington, D.C. There is no identifiable pattern for human trafficking victims; the victims can be adult and minor from rural, suburban, or urban communities. According to the national human trafficking resource center (NHTRC) the most vulnerable victim of these human trafficking rings are usually runaway and homeless youth. Even individuals who experienced violence and trauma in the past are more susceptible to being primed into human trafficking. Since human trafficking is so diverse the impact is felt across the board and the manipulation of adults and minors no matter their socio-economic background or education they are still being

The International Labor Organizations (ILO) estimates the number of enslaved victims in the world today is at around 21 million. It is estimated that over 4 million people fall prey to trafficking each year, which is considered to be a conservative estimate according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) because not all victims come forward about their situations due to fear of their lives. Traffickers control their victims through physical threats, similar to the abuse chattel slaves endured in American history. According to the Polaris Project, one of the most well-known anti-trafficking organizations, most victims of human trafficking are often mistreated, handcuffed, beaten, and raped if they do not comply with their traffickers demands.

With an estimated 17,500 individuals trafficked into the U.S. annually, 1,000 individuals received certification within six years following the laws that were set up to stop human trafficking.(Wolf-Branigin, 2010, pp. 424-436) .Certification makes victims of trafficking eligible to receive services from federally funded or administered programs. Even after significant funding for services to support victims of trafficking at the federal level, these resources appear insufficient to meet the demand (Wolf-Branigin, 2010, pp.

Polaris, named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the United States (US), targets the human trafficking networks that “rob human beings of their lives and their freedom.” Polaris Project provides training and practices expertise in this matter, anti-trafficking hotlines, accurate data and statistics, and lastly urges governments to change policies that would improve victim protection laws, reduce vulnerability, increase support for victims and expand the human trafficking investigation.

The purpose of the briefing note is to bring to your attention the prevalence and impacts of modern day slavery (i.e. human trafficking) in Ontario and make recommendations to reduce its impact.

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Taken from their website, Polaris project attempts to stop human trafficking by “successfully pushing for stronger federal and state laws, operating the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline (1-888-373-7888), conducting trainings, and providing vital services to victims of trafficking, Polaris Project creates long-term solutions that move our society closer to a world without slavery” (“Sex Trafficking in the U.S.”). Polaris Project has created a national hotline that anyone who is in danger of human trafficking or feels as if they

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many academics, public officials, law enforcement authorities, and the news media believe human trafficking to be among the most tragic and horrendous transnational criminal activities facing us today. Victims are typically transported from