Companies collaborating with global experts to help eradicate human trafficking using technology
Our Mission
Our mission is to work with civil society, academia, technologists, and leaders with lived experience to advance the use of technology to prevent, disrupt, and reduce human trafficking and to address the misuse of technology to facilitate the crime.
Why Tech Against Trafficking?
49.6M
People in Modern Slavery
Human trafficking and forced labor are complex, thriving crimes that impact every country. There are an estimated 50 million people worldwide living in some form of modern slavery. Given the widespread nature of the abuses and the complexity of tackling them, increased engagement by all stakeholders, especially the private sector, is vital.
Through their expertise, capacity for innovation, and global reach, technology companies can play a major role in preventing and disrupting human trafficking and forced labor and supporting individuals with lived experiences. Digital technologies offer opportunities for a step change in tackling this crime. Tech Against Trafficking works to accelerate the development, scale, and impact of these.
At the same time, traffickers are using technology tools and platforms to recruit victims and improve the efficiency of their operations. Tech Against Trafficking works to address the misuse of online platforms to facilitate human trafficking.
Technological solutions to date include mobile apps that help identify victims of sex trafficking; satellite imagery that tracks down fishing vessels carrying victims of forced labor; and web scraping tools that aggregate child abuse images to help law enforcement track down children in need of help. But there are many more tools out there in need of support. Tech Against Trafficking hopes to accelerate the development, scale, and resulting impact of these tools.
Latest News and Insights
Tech Against Trafficking Summit 2025
The Tech Against Trafficking summit will gather business leaders, anti-slavery experts, policymakers, governments, academia, technologists, and individuals with lived experience to discuss how to harness the power of technology to address modern slavery in its different forms—including forced labor in supply chains, human trafficking, and forced criminality facilitated through online platforms.
Two new Tech Against Trafficking (TAT) reports provide comprehensive insights into how businesses and public sector actors collect data on forced labor risks, and opportunities for greater standardization, based on over a year of research and stakeholder engagement.
A Launchpad for Action: Key Tech and Human Trafficking Priorities in 2025
Following the third annual Tech Against Trafficking Summit, BSR’s Technology and Human Rights teams share six key priorities for business action on leveraging technology to combat modern slavery.
Tech Against Trafficking Summit 2024
Join us at the third global Tech Against Trafficking Summit to discuss some of the most urgent issues at the nexus of human trafficking and technology.