POLARIS

A percentage of the proceeds from our Traffick collection will be going to the Polaris Project.

Who they are...

Polaris responds to sex and labor trafficking as they happen. They learn from that response and share that learning. Finally, they use what they learn to pilot big, new ideas for slowly, carefully, finally, dismantling big, old systems that make trafficking possible. Polaris is focused where they think they can make the most change: Systems that trap impoverished migrants in degrading conditions; systems that allow sex traffickers to hide behind screens and systems that, if optimized, would allow the financial services industry to use traffickers’ own money to shut them down.

What they do...

There is still a great deal left to be understood about how widespread human trafficking is and how it works. Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. Internally, they scour the data for patterns and other information that form the underpinning of our pilot programs, policy decisions and long-term strategies. And they make findings from the data set available to others in research, academia and the anti-trafficking movement because the more we all know, the faster we can end it.

 

Read more about their mission and how they are helping HŪMNS change the world for the better.

https://polarisproject.org