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July 30th is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

July 1, 2022

Updated: July 1, 2025

THEME 2025: “Human Trafficking is Organized Crime — End Exploitation”

“This year’s global campaign for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons highlights the vital role of law enforcement and the criminal justice system in dismantling organized trafficking networks while ensuring a victim-centred approach.” – United Nations – Office on Drugs and Crime 

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024
May 2022 Report Exploitation and Abuse: The Scale and Scope of in Southeastern Europe
May 2022 Report Summary Exploitation and Abuse: The Scale and Scope of in Southeastern Europe
Understanding Child Trafficking
Cooperation is key to countering human trafficking and migrant smuggling: UNODC facilitates training on Mutual Legal Assistance request drafting

Blog: Human Trafficking Policy, Training Opportunities and Events, and learn more about the Anti-Trafficking Field – Freedom Network USA
YouTube video – Leave No One Behind: Combatting Global Human Trafficking (2023) – American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Human Trafficking in Asia: a Hidden Scourge – Generation for Rights Over the World (GROW)
Ukraine Crisis Creates New Trafficking Risks – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
Preventing, Combating and Eradicating Trafficking in Persons – United Nations Network | Migration Network Hub
Human Trafficking – Interpol
Slavery Still Exists – International Justice Mission
Ending Human Trafficking & Sexual Exploitation – Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
Human Trafficking Victims Rescue – Our Underground Railroad
End Sexual Exploitation of Children – ECPAT International
Stop Child Trafficking – Protect All Children from Trafficking (PACT) (formerly ECPAT USA)
Fighting Human Trafficking in Ukraine – The Borgen Project
The 1.5 million children who fled Ukraine are at risk of human trafficking – National Public Radio (NPR)

National Survivor Network
Definitions and Explanations of Terms
Survivor’s Experiences of Sharing Their Trafficking Stories Publicly

CWNY’s list of resources on Human Trafficking awareness and prevention – Center for the Women of New York (CWNY)

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