Read an April 10, 2013, Religion News Service story about a report on trafficking released by the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

NightLight International works to prevent commercial sexual exploitation and help its victims escape from it by providing alternative employment and other assistance. CEO Annie Dieselberg founded the organization in 2005 after years of missionary work in Thailand with her husband, an evangelical pastor. In Bangkok, NightLight operates as a business and as a nonprofit; in the […]

Read a Jan. 3, 2014, Religion News Service story about efforts to end the sex trade in Thailand and how American evangelicals in particular are working to help women break free of it.

Nancy K. Kaufman is chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. She has written about the group’s work, with others, in combating human trafficking in the U.S. since the early 1900s. Contact through the council’s New York headquarters.

Read a Feb. 5, 2014, essay by Nancy K. Kaufman, chief executive officer of the National Council of Jewish Women. Her organization and others have worked since the early 1900s to protect immigrants and other vulnerable people from traffickers, she says, and the effort continues.

The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women is an international network of nongovernmental organizations. Its website includes FAQs on trafficking and on victim assistance and prevention, as well as numerous reports and working papers on the issue. The alliance’s secretariat is based in Bangkok. Email through the website.

Kate Mogulescu is the founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. The project has won praise from the American Bar Association, and Mogulescu has trained public defenders and prosecutors throughout the nation, as well as locally, on how to identify victims of sex trafficking […]

Read a Jan. 31, 2014, op-ed in The New York Times by Kate Mogulescu, founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society. Mogulescu objects to what she calls the annual “Super Bowl sex-trafficking hype,” saying that it typically results in few if any prosecutions of traffickers and harms year-round efforts […]

Betty Ann Boeving is founder and executive director of the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking Coalition. Email her through the organization’s website.