Anti-Human Trafficking Resources

Do you want to know more about the current state of human trafficking around the world today? A great place to begin is Childtrafficking.com whose digital resource library contains an impressive collection of the latest researches, strategies and interventions by various non-governmental organizations around the world, fighting, along with JVI, against trafficking in persons. To get started, consider taking a look at "Demand for Forced Labour and Sexual Exploitation - How and Why it Fuels Human Trafficking" prepared by United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking issued in February 2008.

"On one side is a family of 12 living in a 90-square-foot room—about half the size of an American car-parking space. On the other, eight people share a similar area. Night-sounds suggest they include a man with a painful cough, a colicky baby and an amorous couple. At least they can squeeze inside" according to "A Flourishing Slum" about the urban poverty in India from the year-end issue of The Economist magazine. JVI is putting together plans to construct up to 100 housing in the slums of Chennai, India, under its Slum Dweller Assistance Program, to alleviate this problem.