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Mission Statement

RedLight Children is a global human rights nonprofit organization aiming to end the demand for child slavery and exploitation.

In 2002, while traveling in Cambodia, the organization’s founder, Guy Jacobson, was approached by a barrage of young girls as young as five offering themselves for sex. Horrified by this encounter and by the lack of action taken to address the problem, Jacobson initiated the most comprehensive global mass media campaign ever launched on the issue of human trafficking.

RedLight Children’s work has been featured in over 5,000 major media sources throughout the world, including ABC, Fox, CNN, BBC, Showtime, the NY Times, the Washington Post as well as multiple channels on Dutch TV, Israeli TV, German TV, Ecuadorian TV, Brazilian TV and numerous more. It is estimated that over a billion people have been exposed to the issue of child sexual exploitation as a direct result of RedLight Children’s efforts.

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Current Initiatives

EXPOSE IT: Raising Awareness

Despite the large and growing prevalence of the problem, a new survey commissioned by LexisNexis in collaboration with Polaris Project reveals that most Americans are not aware of the nature or extent of human trafficking.  In fact, when asked to identify the best definition of the term ‘human trafficking,’ nearly half of Americans could not do so (48%). Most respondents- nearly nine out of ten (88%)- were unaware that more than 10 million people are living in sexual slavery or some form of forced labor in the world today, while just one in five (22%) knew that human trafficking generates $30 billion or more in profit each year.

RedLight Children’s Awareness campaign is based on the fundamental need to create awareness and dialogue on a global scale.  This mission will be accomplished by… Read More

Fight IT: Research and Advocacy

In accordance to the Rule of Law, one of RedLight Children’s next big steps is to develop a proposed action plan to decrease the demand for child exploitation and slavery.  It is the view of RLC that, in order to effectively decrease and end the demand, countries need proper legislation, enforcement, and access to the appropriate resources dedicated to combating the problem.  With the help of participating NGOs, pro-bono lawyers, law firms, corporate partners and volunteers, RLC plans to research the laws relating to child and sex trafficking and exploitation in specific countries starting with the United States to determine: 1) What laws currently do exist; 2) Whether there are problems with existing laws that may encourage or permit the perpetuation of the problem, and 3) What laws do not exist.  Read More

 
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