Pillars

SJI implements and supports anti-trafficking strategies through a comprehensive lens that incorporates environmental, immigrant, economic, and racial justice. By recognizing the interconnectedness of these issues, we address how environmental damage, immigrant challenges, economic struggles, and racial inequalities all contribute to trafficking. Our approach focuses on creating policies that protect the environment, support immigrant rights, reduce poverty, and confront systemic racism, with the goal of preventing trafficking and helping those most at risk. 

Our pillars guide our approach, driving the creation of policies that protect the environment, support immigrant rights, reduce poverty, confront systemic racism, and hold government actors accountable, with the goal of preventing trafficking and helping those most at risk

Pillars

1. Racial Justice

Community-informed solutions to historical and systemic racial inequity must be fully integrated into anti-trafficking efforts, with stakeholders that invest resources and political capital in racial justice, including reform to existing immigration and criminal legal systems.

2. Economic Justice

Prevent trafficking in both formal and informal economies to reduce poverty and ensure vulnerable groups have equitable access to resources, support systems, and essential services from which they have been historically excluded.

3. Immigration Justice 

In ten years, the Sunita Jain Anti- Trafficking Initiative will have reduced enforcement policies complicit in trafficking and established legal protections that reflect the lived experience of vulnerable groups. This includes immigration reform to create a legal pathway to citizenship and prevent trafficking.

4. Climate Justice 

Human Trafficking is codified as a critical part of climate change narrative, reflected in locally led resilience efforts, evidence-based research and tangible legal protections.

5. Government Accountability

Anti-trafficking laws, policies, and government practices will be guided by the voices of trafficking survivors, who urge anti-carceral and public health approaches to prevention and demand accountability for government actors and agencies that perpetuate, enable, aid, or abet human trafficking.