The Anti-slavery international organization has a huge grounding on a local level due to their history, being the first anti-slavery organization in the world. Considering, they have nearly 200 years of experience, they have many other organizations they are aligned with to fight issues of slavery. We are focusing specifically on human trafficking within this foundation, and how they fight this on a global scale. It is important to note these connections with other organizations, because without local perspectives, the organization itself would not be able to function on a global scale. Financially, Anti-slavery international has forty-four major funders. One third of their funding comes from their members, who consist of a lot of faith based organizations.
Out of all of the funding for the organization eight percent is placed directly towards human trafficking, which includes, prostitution, forced labor, domestic servitude, forced marriage, and so much more.
To work on a global scale, they also must be held accountable for the resources used and progress made. In order to do this they publish their projects and evaluations as soon as they are complete. They also have a list of policies in place that are listed on their website, a few examples are the open information policy, equal opportunities policy, and the bribery and corruption policy. The global approach made by the organization is to enable people to leave their traffickers.
According to the Washington Post on the subject of sex trafficking, “Sex trafficking to the United States is estimated to bring 50,000 women and girls to our shores each year, mainly for prostitution.”
Most human trafficking operates cross-borders, but most governments and organizations continue to struggle with cross-border collaborations. If these efforts are achieved, the global safety net for survivors of human trafficking could be strengthened. The main tactics that traffickers use to intrigue or lure in people is the language barriers or the lack of knowledge that the individual has towards their own legal rights.
Many organizations are tackling this issue by attempting to create relationships between countries and regions. This way they are able to exchange information towards statistics they hold on the issue and connections could be established. This new information could potentially help law enforcement pinpoint strategies that the traffickers could be making cross-borders.
In efforts to initiate a conversation about this growing issue, many organizations have created impactful posters and advertisements that display more emotion towards the subject.
That being said, their efforts were more directed towards how the culture that they are attempting to impact. In several countries, sex trafficking has impacted many families that then return back to their own families to recruit some of their own family members. Then the recruitment becomes more of a family endeavor that makes it harder to break the linkage of trust that it establishes.