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Combating Trafficking in Persons We work with service providers, immigrant, labor and women's rights organizations and governments to ensure that all local, regional and international responses to the trafficking of human beings into forced labor, slavery and servitude are based upon internationally-recognized human rights standards.
Mission
The International Human Rights Law Group is a non-profit organization engaged in advocacy, strategic human rights lawyering and training around the world. Our mission is to empower local advocates to expand the scope of human rights protections and to promote broad participation in building human rights standards and procedures at the national, regional and international levels.
- Contact Information:
- 1200 18th Street Northwest, Suite 602
- Washington, DC 20036
- United States
- Active In: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, United States, Yemen
- Forms of Abolition:
- Policy Making
- Forms of Slavery:
- Domestic Servitude, Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Bonded Labor, Child Labor
- Email: info@ hrlawgroup.org
- Additional Locations:
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- House No. 200, 3rd Ansari Street Shahr-e-Now
- Kabul,
- Afghanistan
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- Medunarodna pravna grupa za ljudska prava Marsala Tita 8/2
- Sarajevo,
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Groupe Juridique International des Droits Humains Arnolac III
- Bujumbura,
- Burundi
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- Galerie du Centenaire Boulevard du 30 Juin
- Kinshasa,
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- 55 Avenue de Maniema
- Bukavu,
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- 98-E Abdara Road University Town
- Peshawar,
- Pakistan
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- 17-B Mississippi Street Maitama District
- Abuja,
- Nigeria
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How Armenia Became a Tier 1 Country
Starting as a Tier 3 country in the early 2000s, the government of Armenia worked hard to improve their record, and succeeded. Check out how they improved their human trafficking/modern-day slavery record!