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  2. Polaris Project - Wikipedia

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    Polaris Project. Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent ...

  3. Human trafficking - Wikipedia

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    Human trafficking is the trade of ... Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chon founded a non-government organization called the Polaris Project to combat human trafficking ...

  4. Katherine Chon - Wikipedia

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    Katherine Chon is the co-founder of Polaris Project in the United States. [1] She started the organization immediately upon graduation with fellow Brown University student Derek Ellerman in 2002 after learning about the problem of human trafficking during her undergraduate studies. She has testified before Congress concerning the scope of human ...

  5. Sexual abusers have used Uber and Lyft to bring teens to ...

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    The senators cited a 2018 survey by Polaris, which runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline, that found that 9% of victims or traffickers used ride-hailing services such as Uber or Lyft during ...

  6. Human trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Terminology. Human trafficking is a form of slavery, involving the illegal smuggling and trading of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power from a position ...

  7. Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims - Wikipedia

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    It used to be known as "Polaris Project Japan" (ポラリスプロジェクトジャパン). History and purpose. Lighthouse was founded in August 2004 by Shihoko Fujiwara. The following year, Lighthouse established the only nationwide consultation hotline for trafficking victims and those wishing to report possible trafficking activity in Japan.

  8. Child prostitution - Wikipedia

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    The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) was later established by the Polaris Project as a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls from anywhere in the United States, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. The hotline was designed to allow callers to report tips and receive information on human ...

  9. Sex trafficking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Sex trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking which involves reproductive slavery or commercial sexual exploitation as it occurs in the United States. Sex trafficking includes the transportation of persons by means of coercion, deception and/or force into exploitative and slavery-like conditions. [1]