Mission Statement
The New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition is a group of organizations that have joined forces to increase public awareness of human trafficking in our communities, enact anti-trafficking laws, improve law enforcement response and increase social services to help women and girls escape trafficking. New York is a leading entry, transit and destination point for trafficking victims. The New York Anti-Trafficking Coalition helped drive the passage of two momentous laws in New York State: The New York Anti-Trafficking Law and the Safe Harbor for Exploited Youth Act.
Advisory Council
- Gloria Steinem, Chair (Renowned author and feminist )
- Honorable Catherine Abate (Former New York State Senator)
- Honorable Gale Brewer (New York City Council Member)
- Helen Bernstein (Member of Equality Now’s Advisory Council)
- Governor Mario Cuomo (Former Governor of New York)
- Abigail E. Disney (Co-Founder and President of the Daphne Foundation)
- Honorable Betty Weinberg Ellerin (Former Justice of the Appellate Division)
- Eve Ensler (Playwright and Founder of V-Day)
- Linda Fairstein (Former Chief Prosecutor, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Sex Crimes Unit)
- Toby Graff (Vice President of Public Affairs for Lifetime Television)
- Agnes Gund (President emerita of the Museum of Modern Art)
- Natatia Griffith (President of New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women)
- Honorable Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
- Georgette Mosbacher (Businesswoman and Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee’s Finance Committee)
- Deputy Borough President Rose Pierre-Louis (Manhattan)
- Deputy Mayor Carol Robles-Roman
- Lynn Rollins (Senior Advisor for Women’s Issues under Governor George E. Pataki)
- Marla Schaefer (Co-CEO of Claire’s Stores)
- Karenna Gore Schiff (Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children)
- Meryl Streep (Actor and Activist)
- Borough President Scott M. Stringer (Manhattan)
Coalition Members
- A Call to Men
- African Services Committee
- American Association of University Women, NYC Branch
- Asian-American Communications, Inc
- Auburn Theological Seminary
- Beasister2asister
- Center for the Women of New York
- Central American Legal Assistance
- Chinatown Manpower Project
- Church Avenue Merchants Block Association
- Coalition Against Trafficking Women (CATW)
- Coalition for Asian American Children&Families
- College Democrats of NY
- Community Healthcare Network
- Covenant House New York
- Domestic Violence Project of Catholic Charities
- ECPAT
- Empire State Coalition
- Equality NOW
- Farmworker Legal Services of NY, Inc.
- Freedom Week
- Garden of Hope
- Girls Educational & Mentoring Service (GEMS)
- Girls for Gender Equality
- Graham Windham
- Hope’s Door
- inMotion
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, NYC Price of Life Invitational
- Jewish Child Care Association
- Justice Peace Integrity of Creation, Rel. of the Sacred Heart of Mary
- Korean American Family Service Center
- Latin Women in Action
- Legal Information for Families Today
- LifeWay Network
- Man Up Campaign
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Media 4 Humanity
- Men Can Stop Rape
- Mercy Center
- Mercy Center/Met Council
- Met Council
- Mt. Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI)
- My Sisters’ Place
- Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- Natl Council of Jewish Women New York
- Natl Council of Jewish Women Peninsula Section
- Network for Peace
- Not For Sale
- NOW Brooklyn-Queens
- NOW New York City
- NOW NY State
- NOW Rockland County
- NY Asian Women’s Center
- NY State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- NY State Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NYSCASA)
- NYC Urban Project (NYCUP)
- Pace Women’s Justice Center
- Parents for Megan’s Law
- Polaris Project
- Putnam Northern Westchester Women’s Center
- Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, EAP-JPIC, Westchester
- Restore NYC
- Retreat, Inc.
- Rivers in the Desert Advocacy Center
- Sanctuary for Families
- Sparrow’s Hope for Girls
- Sisters of Charity of NY, Office of Justice & Peace
- St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Crime Victims Treatment Center
- STEPS to End Family Violence
- The Children’s Village
- Turning Point
- UJA Foundation
- UNANIMA International
- Violence Intervention Program, Inc.
- Voices of Women Organizing Project
- Women’s City Club of NY (WCCNY)
- Women’s Natl Republican Club
- Workers’ Rights Law Center of New York
- YWCA Brooklyn
- YWCA of White Plains and Central Westchester
- YWCA Orange County
- YWCA Orange County
- Zonta Club of New York, Internatl District 3
Fact Sheet on the Demand Side of Human Trafficking
These statistics provide an overview of the men who choose to purchase sex: who they are, why they do it, their acknowledgement of why women enter prostitution and the harm prostitution inflicts on women and girls.
