Considerations and Recommendations on Trauma-Informed Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors

The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence has been providing technical assistance and training on sex and labor trafficking since 2002. This technical assistance brief focuses on issues affecting victims/survivors of sex trafficking who may be adults or minors, foreign nationals or U.S. citizens, and/or trapped by international or domestic trafficking. It highlights survivor-centered considerations and practices for advocates addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking – issues that the field continues to learn about because we have as our teachers the resilience, resistance, strengths, traumas, and powerful expertise of survivors.