Wear Blue for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
On Jan. 11th, 2019 the Blue Campaign is asking everyone to wear blue in order to show solidarity with human trafficking survivors as well as raise awareness of modern day enslavement.
Men Against the Trafficking of Others (MATTOO)
http://www.mattoo.orgVolunteer Opportunities: Yes
History
MATTOO (pronounced |matˈtoō|), established in 2010, is an international organization that uses the empowerment of boys and men to stop the threat of sex trafficking by showing the direct correlation between the demand in the sex trade industry and the supply of humans through trafficking.
MATTOO is the first of its kind nonprofit (501c3) that exists to exclusively decrease the demand of sex trafficking.
Mission
"Through the use of media and an educational distribution strategy directed at males, MATTOO exposes the reality of sex trafficking, starting with the sex trade industry.”
- Contact Information:
- PO Box 1655
- Maple Grove, Minnesota 55311
- United States
- Active In: United States, Romania
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking
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Related Blog Posts:
The Secret Victims of Sex Trafficking
What are the provisions for male victims? More importantly, what can be done to make their circumstances and needs known in the anti-trafficking field?
The Myth of Abduction
The stereotype has been influenced by the movie Taken, which brought awareness to the issue of sex trafficking but also left people thinking that trafficking is white women bring kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder.