Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 16: Peace Justice and Strong Institutions

According to our most recent user survey, Spotlight is helping find more child victims of human trafficking, faster. Used by officers in all 50 states and Canada, our web-based tool has helped in identifying 17,092 child victims of human trafficking in the past four years. With only a 25% average response rate, we’re confident these numbers represent the low end of our impact.

Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. We cannot end this one person, one survivor at a time. But with your help, we can target the systems that make human trafficking possible.

Human Trafficking Search is the global database that provides information and awareness on human trafficking. HTS covers topics that include forced and bonded labor, sex trafficking, child trafficking, forced marriage, and more. HTS strives to deliver everything you need to know about human trafficking, in one place.

The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative provides partner companies with tools and strategies to aide in the prevention and detection of human trafficking. Our collaborative platform, Project Hades, reduces the security risks to law enforcement, financial institutions, and corporations during investigations of illicit activity such as child exploitation, fraud, and human trafficking.

The company’s flagship tool, Traffic Jam, uses AI like facial recognition to help law enforcement find victims and enable them to take down organized criminal networks. In 2019, Traffic Jam was used to identify an estimated 3,800 victims of sex trafficking. Traffic Jam is used by law enforcement agencies in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

DeliverFund is a private intelligence firm that disrupts human trafficking markets by providing intelligence and delivering specialized analytics about human trafficking activities to law enforcement authorities.

The HTMSE Directory is the first comprehensive directory of the world’s leading specialists working in the counter-human trafficking and modern slavery sector. Our fast, effective and accessible search engine is used by NGOs, charities, businesses, lawyers, medical practitioners and survivors. We connect those affected by trafficking and slavery to the professional support they need.

PAVE is an innovative platform that facilitates best practices and creates a single screening, assessment, and referral process for victims of trafficking. From screening through next steps, PAVE provides the tools to improve identification and response as a collaborative community. We can tailor PAVE to work within the context of each agency’s reporting and referral process.

The STOP APP is a tool which enables anybody who knows, has seen or even heard a situation that they believe to be human trafficking, to talk about it in a safe and secure space. The app is anonymous, confidential and secure – it is available in seven languages and allows you to submit suspicious activity quickly by sending text based messages and uploading photos and videos.

LEADS was designed as a result of years of ongoing research to help law enforcement identify traffickers and see the full scope of the network in order to hold perpetrators accountable. LEADS facilitates an intel-driven approach that decreases emphasis on victim self-identification and cooperation, and provides law enforcement with credible cases that investigators can work on collaboratively.