About This Website

Overview About Human Trafficking

As a form of modern-day slavery, human trafficking is an important social issue which we need to raise the awareness of. This crime occurs when a trafficker uses force, fraud or coercion to control another person for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or soliciting labor or services against his/her will. This obviously is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women, and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. However, due to data on human trafficking are often highly sensitive raising a range of privacy and civil liberty concerns, we think many people might not realize how serious human trafficking is in the world.

Our Purpose

We hope to have a more friendly way to present information about human trafficking and raise awareness of it. To achieve our goals, we want to create a storytelling website about human trafficking. By organizing the data and creating interactive elements, we can provide the victims’ origin, the reason for human trafficking, and their destination by connecting the elements in different storylines. The user can get information about this important issue while having fun interacting with the website. We will also provide a clear data visualization for people who only want to view the data.

About Us

We are students from University of Washinton studying Informartics. Seeing the problems about human trafficking, we hope to put in some effort to help more people learn about human trafficking.