Brenda Myers-Powell

Deconstructing The Demand for Prostitution: Preliminary
Insights From Interviews With Chicago Men Who Purchase


Sex  Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls

The Cook County Commission
on Women’s Issues
The Realities of
Human Trafficking in Cook County:
Strategies for Ending the
Research on Prostitution and
Human Trafficking
Want to learn more about human trafficking, sexual
exploitation, and prostitution and how you can help???


LOVE146
www.love146.org
ABOLITION & RESTORATION! Love 146 combats child sex slavery &
exploitation with the unexpected and restores survivors with excellence.

PROSTITUTION RESEARCH
www.prostitutionresearch.com
Prostitution research and education is a non-profit organization that provides facts
and information on prostitution.

THE WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

www.youarepriceless.org/
The Young Women’s Empowerment Project is a community based youth lead
project that was founded in 2001 by a radical feminist and harm reduction based
collective of women and girls involved in the sex trade and street economy and
our allies.

CHICAGO ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

www.caase.org
CAASE believes in stopping sexual exploitation by directly addressing the culture,
institutions, and individuals that perpetrate, profit from, or tacitly support, sexually
exploitive acts against people.

THE COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN-INTERNATIONAL

www.catwinternational.org
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-International (CATW) is a non-
governmental organization that promotes women's human rights by working
internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

www.humantrafficking.org
The purpose of this Web site is to bring Government and NGOs in the East Asia
and Pacific together to cooperate and learn from each other’s experiences in their
efforts to combat human trafficking. This Web site has country-specific
information such as national laws and action plans and contact information on
useful governmental agencies. It also has a description of NGO activities in
different countries and their contact information.

POLARIS PROJECT
www.polarisproject.org
Polaris Project's vision is for a world without slavery. Named after the North Star
that guided slaves towards freedom along the Underground Railroad, Polaris
Project has been providing a comprehensive approach to combating human
trafficking and modern-day slavery since 2002.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
www.missingkids.com
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
"For me,
forgiveness and
compassion are
always linked:
how do we hold
people
accountable for
wrongdoing and
yet at the same
time remain in
touch with their
humanity enough
to believe in their
capacity to be
transformed?"
  
bell hooks