C) Actors involved in the fight against human trafficking

Many actors are involved, in one way or another, in the fight against human trafficking. All of them are important and necessary to effectively combat trafficking: identifying, protecting and rehabilitating victims, prosecuting traffickers, raising awareness, and preventing human trafficking.

 

 

  • Governments (Justice, Interior, Health, Labor, etc.) at all levels

  • International (UN) and regional (Council of Europe, ASEAN, etc.) organizations
     in partnership with each other and with governments and civil society

  • Religious organizations and leaders: local actors active with victims and their families and communities through unique, universal and grassroots networks

  • Private sector: financial institutions, technology companies, digital service providers and consumers

  • Civil Society:

  • Humanitarian organizations engaged in the heart of vulnerabilities without always realizing it

  • Human Rights NGOs: trafficking is a massive denial of fundamental rights: life, dignity, family, health, and work

  • Local communities and diasporas: essential for the prevention of trafficking and the reintegration of victims

  • Ecological movements (“integral ecology”): the trade destroys the natural environment (water, forests) by exploiting human beings and starts from the same approach of unlimited exploitation until exhaustion

  • Universities, research and training institutes: documenting facts and rights and training public opinion and committed and potential actors (lawyers, judges, police officers, border control, social and hospital officials, airline cabin crew, etc.)

  • Opinion formers: media, writers, journalists and film makers: to research, document, mobilize (Films: “Whistleblower”, “Trade“, Trafficked”, Invisibles” and Devenirby Geneviève Colas – Secours Catholique describing French victims in France)

  • Victims and survivors: listening to them and enabling them to act
     
    so that they can be rehabilitated and reintegrated into society.