We are a global team of lawyers, social workers, community activists and other professionals working in 16 countries to partner with local authorities to protect people in poverty from violence. Our theory of change is based on the importance of the rule of law to protect those who are living in poverty and who are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Our team has spent more than 20 years on the front lines fighting some of the worst forms of violence: land theft, slavery, police abuse of power, and child sexual assault. To date we have supported local authorities to bring over 85,000 people to safety from slavery and oppression. In areas in which we have worked, we have seen that when local justice systems are properly equipped to proactively identify survivors and hold traffickers to account then the prevalence of slavery falls dramatically, in some cases by as much as 86%.
