HumanTrafficking.org | United States of America International Organization: American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center)

A web resource for combating human trafficking

United States of America

American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center)

Address

America Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center), AFL-CIO
888 16th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20006

Contact Information

If calling from United States of America:

Tel: 1 202 974 8337
Fax: 1 202 974 8384

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +1 202 974 8337
Fax: +1 202 974 8384

Website

http://www.solidaritycenter.org

Email

nmisra@solidaritycenter.org

Activities

Trafficking in persons is the worst form of labor exploitation. The Solidarity Center is using its expertise in securing worker rights to attack the nightmare of trafficking head-on. Since its founding, the Solidarity Center has worked around the world to eliminate all forms of worker exploitation and to build support for worker rights. The Center’s partnerships with workers, trade unions, governments, NGOs, and other civil society groups and coalitions uniquely position the Center to create community- and workplace-based counter trafficking strategies that emphasize prevention, prosecution, and protection. Programs assist migrant workers, at-risk women workers, displaced persons, and child laborers.

Sample programs include:

Educating intending migrant workers about labor laws and workplace rights in their own and foreign countries
Helping to draft and pass improved anti-trafficking and safe migration legislation
Training teachers to run school-based awareness programs
Promoting union-run legal aid, counseling, and information centers
Researching local, regional, and national trafficking trends and demographics
Supporting common counter-trafficking initiatives between stakeholders in sending and receiving countries
Creating standardized reporting forms for use in police stations

For more information on Solidarity Center trafficking in persons programs and to download materials, visit:
http://www.solidaritycenter.org/content.asp?contentid=410. This link also has information about Solidarity Center counter trafficking programs in Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Romania, and Kenya.

To download the Solidarity Center and ICMC's publication Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia, visit:
http://www.solidaritycenter.org/content.asp?contentid=502

The Solidarity Center also supports websites in Indonesia (Stop Trafiking www.stoptrafiking.or.id) and the Philippines (NO to Trafficking www.trafficking.org.ph/).

NEW PUBLICATION: When They Were Sold: Trafficking of Women and Girls in 15 Provinces of Indonesia