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Many people agree that Human Trafficking is a major problem but they don’t know how they can help. There are many organizations that have sites that you can go to. Love146, ECPAT International and HumanTrafficking.org are only three of the billion of organizations that you can go to.

Love146 was started in 2002 by a group of people who traveled to South-East Asia and saw how little girls were being sold at brothels. The girls were on one side of a one side mirror just watching TV while men on the other side were watching them and picking and choosing the girls. Love146 was started to help those girl on the other side of the mirror. This organization helps to abolish child prostitution. They train aftercare workers (workers who work with children that have been rescued), they also have multiple safe houses. On the website love146.org you can watch a short video on how Love146 got started. Also on the website you can donate. (Love146)

ECPAT stands for End Child Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes. ECPAT is mainly focused on Child Prostitution in Asia. When a team researchers went on a tourism consult in Thailand in 1990, they “exposed the degree to which child prostitution was increasing in many Asian countries.” With in three more years ECPAT was started. Over the next 18 years ECPAT held International Consultations and has partnered up with UNICEF and the NGO Group for the Rights of the Child. This organization follows the governments of the 122 countries that adopted the Stockholm Agenda for Action against the commercial sexual exploitation of Children (CSEC) and then publishes the results. On their web site (ecpat.net) you can read more about their history and how you can get involved. (ECPAT International)

HumanTrafficking.org is a little different than the other two web sites. HumanTrafficking.org gives you information about the situations in East Asia and Pacific countries. This web site was started in 2000 after the Asian Regional Initiative Against Trafficking (ARIAT) when, “it was suggested that countries should build regional cooperation networks, including cooperation through the Internet, to combat the issue of human trafficking.” On the web site (HumanTrafficking.org) you can look at the countries situations and what the government is doing to help prevent human trafficking. You can also read about what you can do to help. (Humantrafficking.org0

Although all three of these web sites are different, they are all working toward a common goal: STOPPING HUMAN TRAFFICKING! You might know what human trafficking is but you might not know where and how much it affects the world today and these websites and many other can help you understand more.


ECPAT International. ECPAT International. 17 October 2008.

Humantrafficking.org. 2001-2006. Academy for Education Development. 17 October 2008

Love146. 2008. Love146. 17 October 2008.