Learn About Domestic Violence Within Forced Marriages
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Help raise awareness by learning about forced marriage, a form of domestic violence and human trafficking.
Stop Human Trafficking - Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois Network
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History
The Stop Human Trafficking – Eastern Missouri, Southern Illinois Network is a network of service providers, law enforcement, concerned citizens and awareness raising initiatives throughout Eastern Missouri and parts of Southern Illinois that strive to share resources to better protect and provide for victims of human trafficking. We seek to provide resources to frontline service providers, law enforcement and the general community to increase identification of those in need. Additionally, we strive to facilitate quality and speedy service delivery through fostering the communication network of those working to combat trafficking in persons.
Our goal through this project is to provide resources that will
- arm the general community with the knowledge necessary to look beneath the surface and report on suspicions of exploitation,
- link law enforcement and service providers in a victim-centered approach to investigations and prosecutions
- equip service providers with the information necessary to afford appropriate and quality services to victims of trafficking
Mission
To identify victims of trafficking through outreach, training and public awareness; to provide referral services for potential victims
- Contact Information:
- Saint Louis, Missouri 63005
- United States
- Active In: United States
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Forced Labor, Sex Trafficking, Child Labor
- Tel: +1 (0) 314 773-9090
- Email: mohla@iistl.org
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Why You Can’t Take a Picture of Human Trafficking
The reason you can’t take a picture of slavery today is because it is dependent on the narrative. If you don’t know why someone is working, you will not be able to know if they’re enslaved or not.
In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.