The portal is searchable by keyword, by country and by theme in 14 languages including Spanish, French, German, Italian and Czech. Brief videos produced by UNODC, UNICEF, IADB, WITNESS and others have also been made accessible on the site.

HumanTraffickingSearch.net and its "deep search" engine provide information on such topics as: Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Forced Labor and Sex Slavery.

HumanTraffickingSearch.net has over 16,000 Web entries of information and resources on issues related to human trafficking and modern-day slavery from around the world. It offers a vast amount of information, updated regularly, on over 120 countries through a broad range of:

-- articles

-- research studies

-- congressional testimony

-- case studies

-- an international map

-- a data map on child labor

-- a daily news service, and

-- brief videos

NMCI, a long recognized leader in the diversity field, has created this Web portal to support advocates and service providers working to eradicate human trafficking worldwide. NMCI is also developing training for professionals on how cultural competency facilitates service delivery to victims of human trafficking.

For more information about NMCI, visit http://www.nmci.org.

Contact: Liz Salett of the National Multicultural Institute, 202-483-0700 ext. 224 or Salett@nmci.org

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