The Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking is a consortium of Members of Parliament and Congress, government leaders, and lived-experience experts committed to educating lawmakers about one of the greatest humanitarian crises in the world today, human trafficking.
The Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking (ITHT) is the first platform of its kind to convene the primary anti-trafficking legislators, decision-makers and lived-experience experts from around the world with the single mission of stopping human trafficking through parliamentary education. Trafficking is a transnational crime which requires multilateral solutions. Legislation is one of the most neglected yet necessary forms of international diplomacy. We aim to institutionalize abolition and change the course of history at a time when interconnected global and local markets depend even more on the trafficking of children, men, and women.
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world and is a significant source of funding for every nation and movement threatening the stability and security of our world today. It is unique among human rights abuses because regional escalation not only exploits and enslaves millions of people in sex trafficking, labor trafficking, organ harvesting, forced marriage and other forms of modern day slavery, but it also funds and exacerbates global violence, including terrorism, armed conflicts, gender apartheid, and environmental degradation.
Our goals are to:
We bring legislators and lived-experience experts together to learn from one another and build cross-border coalitions against trafficking.
Focused groups, such as the Working Group on Orphanage Trafficking, develop expertise and model policy on specific dimensions of trafficking.
Coordinated advocacy efforts raise awareness and drive legislative action on the issues that matter most in the fight against trafficking.
Our members serve in parliaments, congresses and institutions across 32 countries and territories. Click a highlighted country on the map to meet the members who serve there.
Meet the 62 legislators, government leaders, staff, and lived-experience experts who make up the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking.
Legislators, government leaders, and lived-experience experts educating lawmakers on anti-trafficking policy. 47 members
The staff who run the Taskforce day to day. 3 members
The governing board that guides the organization. 4 members
A focused group advancing policy and awareness on orphanage trafficking. 23 members
If you are a legislator interested in joining the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, we invite you to read our mission and become part of a global coalition working to end trafficking through policy.
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