First-of-its-Kind Anti-Trafficking Data Hub

The Human Trafficking Data Lab’s research-enabled Data Hub offers an unprecedented window into the complex world of human trafficking, integrating the details of thousands of known cases with AI-native analytics to shed light on the experience of survivors and the tactics perpetrators use to exploit them. 

Focusing on the analysis of demographic details, socio-economic context, social program coverage, geospatial patterns, environmental interconnections, policy changes over time, and enforcement practices, we can support a diverse research program as well as data-driven policymaking to drive effective change.

For example, the Lab has built an ambitious data ecosystem to map global supply chains in key sectors from exporter to trafficking microdata at the commodity producer level, meaningfully improving conventional supply chain due diligence practices. We leverage siloed administrative data streams to connect producers to legal entities, ownership networks, and documented trafficking cases to shed light on the hidden networks behind human rights violations, fostering better governance and social sustainability in the private sector.

Our investment in building an expansive trafficking relevant data repository drives a diverse research portfolio focused on some of the most challenging human rights violations. Our research program emphasizes Brazil, with a special focus on human trafficking in the Brazilian Amazon, but our model has global reach for rigorous, quantitative human trafficking research in many sectors and geographies. 

Location: Brazil (nationwide)

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