Our Policy Agenda:

The Freedom Network (USA) is the only national coalition of anti-trafficking service providers to adopt a rights-based framework which our members apply to their anti-trafficking services, outreach, collaboration, and training.  Based on our members’ longstanding expertise and scope of services working with trafficked people, this coalition relies on these day-to-day evidence-based practices to advocate for policies rooted in supporting the human rights of trafficked persons.  The Freedom Network encourages policies that promote survivor autonomy, avoid bifurcated treatment of trafficked persons, and discourage rogue and vigilante efforts that compromise safety and autonomy in the name of combating human trafficking.  

Our Priorities:

Child Trafficking for Labor in the United States

Labor Trafficking is a Women's Rights Issue
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Human Trafficking and Worker's Rights
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Human Trafficking and Sex Worker's Rights
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Human Trafficking and Immigrant Rights
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Freedom Network USA: A Rights-Based Approach to Combating Human Trafficking
Fact Sheet (September 2010)

Survivors of Domestic Human Trafficking: Developing an Effective Approach
Fact Sheet (March 12, 2010)

Restructuring Program Funding to Better Serve Trafficked People
Fact Sheet (March 12, 2010)

Comprehensive Legal Services for Trafficked People
Fact Sheet (March 12, 2010)

Background Information:

Request for Information for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report
Comments Provided to the U.S. Department of State (March 26, 2010)

A Domestic and International Agenda for a Human Rights and Evidence-Based Laws, Policy and Practices to Combat Human Trafficking
The Freedom Network transitional memo offered to the Obama Administration (April 2, 2009)