What We Do


The Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking is focused on expanding the understanding of human trafficking and bringing this international human rights crisis to an end.

The initiative aims to create a global effort through building a network of scholars and practitioners, developing best practices, disseminating information, and conducting research. Information will be disseminated through a series of online conferences, scholarly lectures, a fellows program, and student internships.

This initiative will not only educate, but provide connections and information-sharing for anti-trafficking policymakers and future public policy leaders around the world.




What's New:

  • September 24, Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Advisor to the Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking, spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative Fifth Annual Meeting.

    view archived webcast >

  • September 23, 2009: “A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery” by Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner named nonfiction winner of the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

    more on the award >

  • June 18, 2009: Continuing to leverage heightened media awareness following the release of the State Department's TIP report, Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner takes part in a trafficking Q&A with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Cooper's popular AC360° blog.

    go to the blog >

  • June 16, 2009: Responding the TIP Report's release, Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner joins Worldfocus anchor Martin Savidge in this video interview in which Skinner discusses modern slavery and how the current economic crisis is playing into the problem of human trafficking.

    watch the interview >

  • June 16, 2009: U.S. State Department releases the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. Video coverage of remarks by Secretary of State Clinton and Ambassador Luis C. de Baca are also available.

    more >

  • March 24, 2009: White House Press Release: President announces nomination for State Department position to combat trafficking. Luis C. de Baca poised to become Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
    UPDATE: May 18, 2009: Luis C. deBaca is confirmed.

     more >

  • March 18, 2009: Conference on Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and the Sex Sector at American University. Conference summary by Christina Alfirev.

    read her summary >

  • February 25, 2009: Commentary by Swanee Hunt, “A Crime That Should Shame Us All,” appears on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Web site.

    read the commentary >

  • February 19, 2009: Visit Anderson Cooper's Blog. There, the popular CNN reporter and host of AC360, hosts a discusion thread on modern day slavery.

    go to the blog >

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Events on Video:

  • Video coverage of the March 25 panel presentation “Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism - Consequences in a Global Environment” is now on-line!

    go to the event listing >

  • Video coverage of the Siddharth Kara event now on-line!
    See his complete February 5th presentation, “The Economics of Sex Trafficking.”

    go to the event listing >

Archives of Web-Seminars:

  • Complete archive of the November 18 Online Conference “Best Practices to Combat Demand of Sex Trafficking” is now on line.

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  • Complete archive of the April 29 Online Conference “Best Practices to Combat Human Trafficking: Collecting Data from Official Sources” is now on line.

    go to the event listing >

Publications:

  • Journal Article: Carr Center Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner, “The Fight to End Global Slavery,” MIT's World Policy Journal, Volume 26, No 2, Summer 2009.

    read the article>