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How to End Human Trafficking:
a Mosaic of Solutions to Produce a Tipping Effect

This grid is a mosaic of solutions to the human trafficking problem (terms of the mosaic are explained below). This mosaic demonstrates that these solutions' collective impact is greater than the sum of their individual parts. Together, the have the potential for pushing society close to a tipping point beyond which the dynamics of human trafficking is fundamentally changed for the better. This mosaic is meant to be used as a tool for making connections, creating synergies, identifying emerging trends and patterns, and finding and filling gaps.



Factors  

 Principles
Low Risk/
High Profits
for Traffickers
High
Demand
Vulnerability
of
High-Risk Populations
Corruption and Inadequate Government Policy Culture
of
Tolerance
Ensuring Law for All Derek Ellerman
USA
Endang Susilowati
Indonesia
Jeanne Devos
India

Salma Ali
Bangladesh

Stella Cardenas
Colombia

Zia Awan
Pakistan

Harendra de Silva
Sri Lanka

Khemoporn Wiroonrapun
Thailand
Creating Value-Driven Communities Montri Sintawichai
Thailand
Parshuram M.L.
India
Shane Petzer
South Africa
Sunitha Krishnan
India
Alexis Ponce
Ecuador
Eliminating Otherness   Sompop Jantraka
Thailand

Priti Pai Patkar
India

Alejandro Martinez
Colombia

Renu Rajbhandari
Nepal

Stella Tamang
Nepal

Jeroo Billimoria
India

Vera Sulistyowati
Indonesia

Surang Janyam
Thailand

Chantawipa Apisuk
Thailand

Tina Suprihatin
Indonesia
Marcelina Bautista
Mexico

This mosaic contains the names of individuals who are leading organizations with exemplary solutions to human trafficking. They are organized in rows by three fundamental principles that have emerged from their work:

  • Ensuring Law for All: allowing marginalized populations to gain equal access to the legal system so that the law serves them.

  • Creating Value-Driven Communities: helping people create and live in healthy communities that successfully set and defend boundaries against human trafficking, and the conditions that support it.

  • Eliminating Otherness: creating inclusive systems that enable full citizenship and opportunity for all.

The solutions in this mosaic also are placed under one of the five primary factors that drive human trafficking:

  • Low Risk / High Profits for Traffickers: Traffickers are driven by these two primary factors that are driving the explosive spread of human trafficking.

  • High Demand: Demand is created by customers who buy products and services, or people for commercial sex, from the trafficking industry.

  • Vulnerability of High-Risk Populations: Victims of trafficking often come from highly vulnerable populations including the poor, migrants, runaways or youth in state custody, minority or oppressed groups, women and children, and victims of violence, war, or natural disasters.

  • Corruption and Inadequate Government Policy: Governments around the world are only beginning to address the problem of human trafficking. Inaction on the part of authorities is compounded by corruption, scarce resources, and low priority for law enforcement.

  • Culture of Tolerance: Human trafficking can flourish only when people tolerate it: for example, when consumers "look the other way" as they purchase goods produced by slave labor; or when parents, tourists, government authorities, and others tolerate the sex industry's predatory practices.

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