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Human Trafficking Fact Sheet

Get Involved

Join NOW-NYC’s Trafficking Action Network. Our network is “tracking the traffickers.” We bring real life examples of how massage parlors on our city streets are actually brothels where trafficking victims may have been funneled to supply the local sex market. Our latest projects have included confronting local newspapers about the advertisment of brothels, as well as sending letters of petition to Senators in order to stress the importance of fully implemementing the Anti-Human Trafficking law. There is a lot more to uncover. Join us to help bring an end to this modern-day slavery. Call 212.627.9895. 

Speak Up  

 Contact your Senator and ask them for funding to implement the Anti-Human Trafficking law

Aimed at ending newspapers and magazines’ reliance on advertisement revenue from illegal massage parlors and brothels, NOW-NYC is  asking local publications to stop doing business with the organized commercial sex industry by signing an anti-trafficking pledge Trafficking Free, NYC! The pledge rewards publications that have made a policy not to advertise brothels. Traffickers supply the local brothel market to meet demand for commercial sex. Turn through the pages of your neighborhood papers and let us know whether or not they are “trafficking free.” Many major publications have already signed on, but there are dozens of local newspapers. We need to increase our reach across the five boroughs and to more ethnic papers. Pick them up, if they have sketchy ads for massage parlors, escort services or classified ads, call them and tell them you won’t read it anymore, better, call an advertiser and call us! 212.627.9895/ contact@nownyc.org.
Ultimately We’re asking publishers to do basic due diligence and use common sense. If someone calls asking for a classified ad that reads ‘Russian Girls, Young, 24/7′ what’s there to think about? Take the contact information and call the NYPD. 

Report a Crime

You can report trafficking crimes or get help by calling the Trafficking in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force Complaint Line at 1-888-428-7581 (voice and TTY). New laws provide options for trafficking victims regardless of immigration status. Operators have access to interpreters and can talk with callers in their own language. The service is offered on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. After these hours, information is available on tape in English, Spanish, Russian, and Mandarin.