Captive
Daughters
Captive Daughters is
the first anti-trafficking group established in California. We focus
solely on ending the sexual bondage of female adolescents and
children. The organization was inspired by the founding director's
stay in Nepal, where she learned firsthand about sex trafficking. Upon
returning to the United States in 1995, she began researching
trafficking and discovered a fragile network of groups struggling to
educate the public on trafficking both here and abroad. In an effort
to strengthen that movement in the United States, she and a committed
group of individuals established Captive Daughters as a non-profit
organization in 1997.
As a founding
principle, Captive Daughters holds that the practice of sex
trafficking is a direct assault on the basic human rights and lives of
female children. While recognizing that sex trafficking is a violation
of fundamental human rights which profoundly effects the lives and
welfare of both women and children, Captive Daughters has chosen to
focus its efforts on combating sex trafficking particularly as it
effects girl children and adolescent females.
Our goal is to
bring public attention to and call for the elimination of the forced
prostitution of girls and adolescent females. We seek to encourage
national and international attention to sex trafficking by informing
the public about the scope and severity of the problem. To accomplish
this, we share information via our website, participate in national
and international forums and media outreach, collaborate with sister
organizations, and encourage the television, film, publishing and
artistic communities to focus on sex-trafficking in their
work.
www.captivedaughters.org
The International
Human Rights Law Institute
In 1990, the International Human Rights Law Institute was established
within the College of Law in response to sweeping global changes that
created new opportunities to advance human rights and strengthen
domestic and international legal institutions. The Institute is
dedicated to developing and promoting international human rights law
and international criminal justice through fieldwork, research and
documentation, publications, advocacy and technical legal assistance
to governments and non-governmental organizations. It also trains new
generations of human rights advocates.
In 1998, the Institute initiated a project on worldwide trafficking in
women and children for purposes of exploitation. Based upon this
initial work, the Institute then joined with the Inter-American
Commission on Women, the Inter-American Commission on Children and the
Organization of American States (along with other collaborators) to
conduct the first regional empirical study of this problem tin the
Americas. Field research was conducted in 8 countries in Central
America and the Caribbean and in Brazil. The results of this study
were published in the end of 2002 and early 2003.
www.law.depaul.edu/ihrli
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