REACH: A UNIAP Human
Trafficking Research Initiative

UNIAP’s REACH Initiative aims to build a stronger global community that directly addresses the issue of human trafficking, particularly human trafficking from Asia to other parts of the world. From communities and campuses around the world, students, academics and other activists can contribute directly to the global counter-trafficking movement and address the urgent issue of human trafficking from Asia. The REACH initiative links university student teams directly with counter-trafficking responders and arms them with the knowledge and contacts they need to be seeds of change, advocacy, and action against trafficking and slavery in their communities. It also taps these teams as critical sources of information on human trafficking for the UN’s Asia-based counter-trafficking responders, who benefit greatly from being linked with local human trafficking news and reporting from these destination countries, particularly news translated from local languages.

REACH links volunteer researcher/student/activist teams in destination countries with UN counter-trafficking responders in Asia so that we can all better understand the realities of human trafficking from Asia to other parts of the world, and so that we can begin targeting and helping more people being victimized and enslaved in these crimes.