As many of you, my readers, know I have a real heart for those who are making a difference in the world of human trafficking. A few weeks ago I gained a follower on twitter randomly. I always check out my followers and so I clicked and was taken to this twitter page. I was immediately intrigued as I had never heard of Aaron Cohen. But soon began to follow him and his organization The Abolish Slavery Coalition.
Abolish Slavery is a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating human trafficking and restoring dignity to victims. We organize and coordinate investigations and field operations to find, identify, and retrieve men, women, and children from slavery, providing for their safe aftercare and rehabilitation. Our coalition work brings together the top professionals in the movement to combat slavery and human trafficking to better advocate for the rights of victims.
I love that mission statement. Not only do they help free those held but they provide aftercare and rehabilitation.
Aaron Cohen and The Abolish Slavery Coalition are really making a difference to those rescued.
You can read more about Aaron Cohen here. He also has a book coming out in June and you can check it out on Amazon.
You can visit the Abolish Slavery Coalition website here - I highly recommend watching the video on the home page!
And you can follow Aaron on twitter here.
Aaron follows me on Twitter too and I'm intrigued by the work he does. I haven't taken the time to look into his organization specifically yet.
I actually came to law school because of being exposed to the reality of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. It's a much bigger issue than a lot of people realize, but there have been quite a few steps in the right direction recently, especially with the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. The US State Dept. and the Department of Justice each have trafficking and sexual exploitation divisions and their websites have a lot of great information and resources.
Also, in case any of your readers are curious about efforts to combat trafficking in the United States, most regional US Attorneys offices have a trafficking division which may be able to direct people to local resources to help victims of trafficking domestically here in the states. They work with service providers and local law enforcement on prosecuting domestic/international cases of trafficking and finding relief and resources for victims, both foreign nationals and US citizens.
Great idea for a post!
Posted by: Chere | Monday, May 11, 2009 at 01:02 AM