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Formation
2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Founders
Derek Ellerman Katherine Chon
Type
NGO
Purpose
Combat and prevent human trafficking
Headquarters
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Location
United States
CEO
Catherine Chen [1]
Main organ
Board of Directors[2]
Website
Official website
Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America. The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent injustices and inequities in our society and our economy. Knowing that, and leveraging data available from more than a dozen years operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, Polaris is focused on three major areas of work: building power for migrant workers who are at risk of trafficking in U.S. agricultural and other industries; leveraging the reach and expertise of financial systems to disrupt trafficking, creating accountability for perpetrators of violence against people in the sex trade and expanding services and supports to vulnerable people to prevent trafficking before it happens.
Polaris operates the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline,[3] which connects victims and survivors to supports and services around the country and takes tips and calls from people about suspected situations of human trafficking. From that work, the organization has built out one of the largest data sets on human trafficking in the United States. The data set is publicly available for use by researchers through the Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative, launched by Polaris and UN International Organization for Migration.[4] Polaris also advocates for stronger state and federal anti-trafficking legislation, and engages community members in local and national grassroots efforts. Critics of Polaris state that the organization fails to distinguish between consensual sex work and coercion, and that the policies Polaris lobbies for harm sex workers.
^"Catherine Chen". Polaris. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 2022-07-28.
^"Leadership | Polaris".
^"Grants". 28 September 2020.
^"UN Migration Agency, Polaris to Launch Global Data Repository on Human Trafficking". International Organization for Migration. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
that the policies Polaris lobbies for harm sex workers. Polaris - originally PolarisProject - was founded in 2002, by Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chon...
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to the Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims (formerly PolarisProject Japan). On April 19, 2011, Adelstein filed a lawsuit against National...
Human Trafficking Resource Center | PolarisProject | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery". PolarisProject. Retrieved September 28, 2013. Clark...
Work | PolarisProject | Combating Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery. (n.d.). Retrieved April 24, 2014, from "Domestic Work | PolarisProject | Combating...
prostitution since the nineteenth century. In 2019 it was reported that the PolarisProject estimated there were around 9,000 massage parlors in the US providing...
Katherine Chon is the co-founder of PolarisProject in the United States. She started the organization immediately upon graduation with fellow Brown University...
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