The Human Trafficking Vulnerability (HTV) Project is a research project based at the University of California, Berkeley and York University (Canada). The study employs experimental methods to study the impact of high-quality awareness campaigns (radio, community meetings, posters, and graphic novels) created with the aim of reducing vulnerability to human trafficking. Thus far, data has been collected in Nepal and Hong Kong.
With funding from Humanity United, USAID, US Department of Labor, Stanford University, Terres des Hommes, and Vanderbilt University, the HTV Project has tested the efficacy of these campaigns on the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices of populations that are either vulnerable to trafficking and labor exploitation or responsible for mitigating it. This includes the general public, law enforcement agents, employers, and migrant domestic workers.
Click the links below to access materials related to the survey.
Publications
Click on the reports below to read more about HTV’s methodological approach and findings.
Designing an Effective Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign: Lessons from Nepal (June 2018)
Reducing Vulnerability to Human Trafficking: An Experimental Intervention using Anti-Trafficking Campaigns to Change Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices in Nepal (August 2016 – corrected March 26, 2018)
Reducing Vulnerability to Human Trafficking: Research on awareness campaigns in Nepal (2016)
Awareness Campaigns
The research team at UC Berkeley, York University and Empathetic Media generated awareness campaigns used in the HTV Project. These campaigns were designed specifically to test how variations in format (graphic novel, radio, video, and poster), and message content (fact-based, fear-based and empowerment-based) shape efficacy. The fear-based campaigns consistently emphasize negative, “danger signs” throughout each story. These stories raise awareness using fear. In contrast, the empowerment-based version of the campaigns use positive, agency-based plot points. These stories use empowerment to raise awareness. Each format of the campaign covers a range of trafficking types including domestic and cross-border human trafficking as well as sex trafficking, child trafficking, and labor trafficking. It examines the trafficking of women, girls, men and boys.
The links below take you to each format of the campaign where you can view, download, and share all the different versions.
Nepal
Graphic Novel , Radio , Video , Poster
Hong Kong
Nepal
Graphic Novel
Tricked, Sold and Shunned: Stories of Human Trafficking in Nepal (English)
Cover (English)
Fear-based version
Empowerment-based version
Tricked, Sold and Shunned: Stories of Human Trafficking in Nepal (Nepali)
Empowerment-based version – contents
Fear-based version – contents
Radio
Feeling Trapped in a Cabin Restaurant (empowerment-based, adult female domestic sex trafficking)
Feeling Trapped in a Cabin Restaurant (fear-based, adult female domestic sex trafficking)
The Cheated Migrant (empowerment-based, adult male cross-border labor trafficking)
The Cheated Migrant (fear-based, adult male cross-border labor trafficking)
False Dreams of a Better Future in India (empowerment-based, adult female cross-border trafficking)
False Dreams of a Better Future in India (fear-based, adult female cross-border trafficking)
Child Worker Abuse at the Sari Factory (empowerment-based, male child domestic labor trafficking)
Child Worker Abuse at the Sari Factory (fear-based, male child domestic labor trafficking)
Domestic Servitude in the Gulf (empowerment-based, adult female cross-border labor trafficking)
Domestic Servitude in the Gulf (fear-based, adult female cross-border labor trafficking)
From Hardship in the Brick Kilns to Hardship in the Streets (empowerment-based, male child domestic sex trafficking)
From Hardship in the Brick Kilns to Hardship in the Streets (fear-based, male child domestic sex trafficking)
Video
(click on the titles to view the videos in a separate pop-up window)
Feeling Trapped in a Cabin Restaurant (adult female domestic sex trafficking)
The Cheated Migrant (adult male cross-border labor trafficking)
False Dreams of a Better Future in India (adult female cross-border trafficking)
Child Worker Abuse at the Sari Factory (male child domestic labor trafficking)
Domestic Servitude in the Gulf (adult female cross-border labor trafficking)
From Hardship in the Brick Kilns to Hardship in the Streets (male child domestic sex trafficking)
Manoj’s Story (adult male organ trafficking)
Sangita’s Story (female child domestic servitude)
Poster
General Population Study (English)
General Population Study (Nepali)
Law Enforcement Study (Nepali)
Hong Kong
Videos
Posters
English
Cantonese
Tagalog
Bahasa
Nepali