Learn About Domestic Violence Within Forced Marriages
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Help raise awareness by learning about forced marriage, a form of domestic violence and human trafficking.
United Against Human Trafficking (UAHT)
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Mission
To prevent and confront modern-day slavery by educating the public, training professionals and empowering the community to take action for the purpose of identifying, rescuing and restoring trafficking victims to freedom
Vision
We aspire for all people to experience freedom and to live beyond bondage to others. We envision a world made up of communities, businesses, faith-based organizations and governments who are intolerant of consumers and purveyors of human trafficking and who actively support the victims until they are restored to freedom.
- Contact Information:
- P.O. Box 541184
- Houston, Texas 77254
- United States
- Active In: United States
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Forced Labor, Sex Trafficking
- Tel: +1 (0) 713 874-0290
- Email: contact@uaht.org
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