What is Athletic Trafficking
This month’s Stop Trafficking Newsletter
focuses on the intersection of sports and human trafficking.
Sport is another cover under which the trafficking of human beings operates.
From aspiring athletes trafficked to pseudo-sports camps in faraway countries, to exploited labor in the construction of the sports stadiums, to underage girls being forced into prostitution at nearby hotels during major sporting events, the link between human trafficking and sports can take many different forms.
Read the February 2022 Stop Trafficking Newsletter
Become Aware…. Slave Labor in Building
Gymnastics and Human Trafficking
Advocate… What Sports Organizations can do
What you can do
Take Action…. Athletes Working Against Human Trafficking
Watch the “Not in Our Game” videos
Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution
Created by Theresa Flores, the S.O.A.P. Project distributes soap bas to hotels housing visitors for major sporting events, conventions, and entertainment extravaganzas across the nation. Soap wrappers contain the hotline number, but also three questions:
- Are you being forced to do anything you do not want to do?
- Have you been threatened if you try to leave?
- Have you witnessed young girls being prostituted?
The SOAP’S Project mission is to end human trafficking by mobilizing communities, provide prevention education and advocacy, and facilitate restorative experiences for survivors. Want to Help?
Click HERE to learn more.
International Justice Mission
A global organization that protects people in poverty from violence against women and children, human trafficking and other forms of abuse against poor people.
Team Freedom, IJM’s team of Pro Athletes has partners in the NFL, MLB, NHL, US Soccer and Olympics. They are committed to using the global power and influence of sport in IJM’s work to protect the poor from human trafficking, slavery and other forms of violence.
Click HERE to learn more.
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