Criminal Justice: Websites

From the website: "The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."

From the website: "The Vault is our new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office."

From the website: "NTERPOL enables police in our 190 member countries to work together to fight international crime. We provide a range of policing expertise and capabilities, supporting three main crime programmes: Counter-terrorism, Cybercrime, and Organized and emerging crime."

Find out about Catholic Relief Services for human trafficking world wide.

Learn about CRS programs with links to other sites.

"CNN wants to amplify the voices of the victims of modern-day slavery, highlight success stories and help unravel the tangle of criminal enterprises trading in human life."

The Convention has a comprehensive scope of application, encompassing all forms of trafficking and taking in all persons who are victims of trafficking

Find summaries of EU legislation.

The FBI works human trafficking cases under both its Civil Rights program and its Violent Crimes Against Children program.

Find global and individual country information, statistics, definitions, and more.

Describes the types of human trafficking and how Interpol is responding.

"NCMEC works to find missing children and reunite them with their families." "... works closely with more than 270 corporate photo partners who disseminate photos of missing children to millions of homes across the U.S. every day."

Define human trafficking in the UK.

Read about the UK's broad categories of exploitation linked to modern slavery.

From India, "Prajwala emerged as an anti-trafficking organization, which believes in preventing women and children from entering prostitution, which is the worst form of sexual slavery."

"UN.GIFT works with all stakeholders - governments, business, academia, civil society and the media - to support each others work, create new partnerships and develop effective tools to fight human trafficking."

The Human Trafficking Knowledge Portal is an initiative to facilitate the dissemination of information regarding the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and specifically the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.

The UNODC works to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants and is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its protocols on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling.

The Toolkit is designed to assist countries to implement the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

"The Rescue and Restore campaign increases the identification of trafficking victims in the United States and helps those victims receive the benefits and services they need to restore their lives."

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin.

Find the laws used to combat human trafficking

The OVC "has supported the development and enhancement of programs designed to provide a comprehensive array of culturally competent services to victims of human trafficking."

"Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims."

"The President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking is a cabinet-level entity, created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which consists of some 14 departments and agencies across the federal government that are responsible for coordinating U.S. government-wide efforts to combat trafficking in persons.'

The TIP office "partners with foreign governments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector to develop and implement effective strategies for confronting modern slavery."

Includes archives of past efforts to stem trafficking in persons.

"The basic purpose of the Protocol is to prevent and combat trafficking, to protect and assist victims and to promote international cooperation."

Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and works to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world.

CATW is a non-governmental organization that works to end human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children worldwide. CATW is the world’s first organization to fight human trafficking internationally and is the world’s leading abolitionist organization.

The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is a network of non-governmental organisations from all regions of the world, who share a deep concern for the women, children and men whose human rights have been violated by the criminal practice of human trafficking.

Learn the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking in the Q & A page.

From the website: "The Urban Institute helps identify solutions for neighborhoods, cities, states, and national criminal justice systems. We analyze crime trends and evaluate prevention initiatives. A core component of our work is studying how to protect vulnerable people and communities from violence and abuse.

And we take a close look at new and emerging criminal justice technologies. Our work combines quantitative and qualitative methods to provide objective data grounded in the experiences of victims, offenders, and practitioners."

Topics include Corrections and reentry, Courts and sentencing, crime and justice statistics, human trafficking juvenile delinquency and gangs, victims of crimes and more.