Learn How Law Enforcement Agencies Are Fighting Human Trafficking
Police officers, legal advocates, and other law enforcement personnel have a critical role to play in protecting trafficking victims and survivors.
NYC Lawyers Against Human Trafficking
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History
NYC LAHT was founded in 2008 by Natalie Flores Campbell and Stephen De Luca.
Natalie Flores Campbell is an attorney admitted to practice in the state and U.S. District Courts of New York and New Jersey. She is a former legal policy fellow at Polaris Organization, one of the largest anti-human trafficking organizations in the U.S.
Mission
NYC LAHT is a group of lawyers and other legal professionals located in the New York metropolitan area who are dedicated to reducing if not eliminating human trafficking by: raising awareness of the issue within the legal community; working with NGOs, academia, non profit organizations, and all levels of government in issue advocacy and public policy. NYC Lawyers Against Human Trafficking is focused on facilitating multinational coordination between source and destination countries in victim assistance and the development of jurisprudential criteria and analysis that will lead to better enforcement of laws and the prosecution of offenders worldwide. Our website is meant to educate and inform the public about the growing problem of human trafficking. NYC LAHT believes awareness breeds results.
- Contact Information:
- New York, New York 10003
- United States
- Active In: United States
- Forms of Abolition:
- Policy Making, Prosecution
- Forms of Slavery:
- Domestic Servitude, Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Bonded Labor, Child Labor, Forced Marriage
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Human Trafficking Behind Bars and Beyond.
Her trafficker told her to tell the buyers she was 18 if asked. She said she could always tell they were sexually aroused by how young she appeared. When they asked her how old she really was, she replied she was “11 years-old.”