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Prevention of Online Recruitment: Awareness Raising for NGOs and Civil Society

  • Research: Investigating and preventing trafficking at the recruitment stage
  • Analysis of classified adverts attempt to understand business model and MO of those involved
  • Disruption tactics…
  • Aid intelligence
  • Work with online platforms, provide greater awareness and education in source countries for women…

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Utilizing Technology to Aid Intelligence and Investigation �

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  • General consensus that there has been an explosion in sex trafficking due to technology
  • Seems logical that the solution is technology
    • Timely investigations
    • Machine learning
    • Understanding movement
  • But we need to better examine the nexus between trafficking and technology – uncertainties about how this nexus works
  • Make technology part of the answer

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Research Approach

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Registration Date of Advertisers

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Dissemination and Education

  • Work with NGOs to deliver training for women and provide policy input
  • Better understand the trafficking technology nexus
    • But we must remain critical
  • Work with law enforcement to help fill this intelligence void
  • Educate online platforms around risk and vulnerability
  • Legal obligations for Online Harms in the UK