Google.org will be funding the creation of this $1.8 million unified initiative in the United States, as one of three multi-year global collaborative partnerships it will fund to implement aggressive, metrics-oriented programs to fight modern-day slavery in the United States and overseas.
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A coalition of 53 organizations and individuals, including Polaris Project, have written an open letter to Village Voice Media asking them to protect women and girls from commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking by immediately and permanently shutting down the entire Adult section of their Backpage.com website..
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Polaris Project, the Department of Health and Human Services and a number of other organizations from around the country have produced online trainings that cover a variety of subjects in the anti-human trafficking field.
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Critical bipartisan legislation to fight human trafficking is moving forward in the Pennsylvania State legislature today.

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Although, Hawaii has several criminal statutes addressing labor and sex trafficking, until recently there has been a lack of focus on public awareness or providing services for victims. In the past year, Hawaiian legislators have introduced 6 new bills that would help identify, protect, and offer assistance to victims of human trafficking but we need your help to ensure that these essential bills get made into law!

Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries, and it happens in South Carolina, but you can do something about it. Make your voice count by calling on your representative to support this bill.

Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing tens of thousands of people here in the United States. In 2011 alone, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received more than 19,400 calls. Victims of human trafficking face a horrific life in which they are threatened, beaten, raped, starved, locked up, or psychologically manipulated - all for the financial profit of human traffickers. West Virginia is one of two states with no law against human trafficking, but you can help change that.

As of Monday, January 30, 2012, Indiana has passed anti-sex trafficking bill SB 4 into law, just in time for the Super Bowl. The bill passed unanimously through the State Senate and House of Representatives and was signed by Governor Mitch Daniels on Monday.