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| Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) | |||||
           
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  AALDEF's Anti-Trafficking Initiative, launched in October 2005, provides free legal representation to trafficked women and youth to ensure survivors' access to human services. Approximately 800,000 victims are trafficked across international borders each year, and between 18,000 to 20,000 are currently trafficked into the U.S. As many as 7,000 individuals — the largest group — are from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Federal law protects and supports survivors of trafficking, which is defined as the recruitment, detention, or receipt of persons through force, fraud, or threats for the purposes of enslavement, forced labor, or exploitation in a forced marriage or commercial industry (such as agriculture, manufacturing, construction, restaurant work, domestic servitude, or commercial sex work). Forced to work for no pay and with restricted access to the outside world, trafficking survivors often live in extreme isolation and fear of coming forward to seek help. AALDEF's Anti-Trafficking Initiative currently has outreach and educational resources available in 12 languages: English, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Punjabi, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. Brochures and quarter-sheet palm cards are available for download below:
For more information about AALDEF's Anti-Trafficking Initiative, please contact Equal Justice Works Fellow Ivy O. Suriyopas at 212.966.5932 x235 or isuriyopas@aaldef.org To make a referral in any of the above languages, please contact Mabel Tso at x224 or mtso@aaldef.org
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