World Day against Trafficking in Persons
July 30th is UN World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Learn more about human trafficking, as well as how to combat it.
Coalition Assisting Trafficked Individuals (CATI)
http://catilondon.ca/Mission
The Coalition Assisting Trafficked Individuals (CATI) includes over 20 different social agencies, non-governmental organizations and individual persons in London and Middlesex County who:
- coordinate the delivery of services to people who have been in situations of human trafficking, and
- seek to prevent further instances of human trafficking by raising awareness of the issue.
- Contact Information:
- , Ontario
- Canada
- Active In: Canada
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Aftercare
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Domestic Servitude, Bonded Labor, Child Labor, Forced Marriage
- Tel: (+1) (519) 439-0844
- Email: annalise@sacl.ca
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