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Upcoming Literature
Efforts to Prevent Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery in the United States
FAIR Fund’s research associates Dana Cumo and Sara Feinberg are currently preparing a 10 state report detailing efforts to prevent human trafficking in largely immigrant communities. The report will detail current efforts and identify positive steps to preventing trafficking.
Women’s Access to Funding for Political Participation
FAIR Fund research associates, Kristen Zimmerman and Melina De la Garza are currently preparing a nine country report exploring funding opportunities available to women pursuing political office in Southeastern Europe. Research will focus on current party funding structures, perceptions of women politicians of the candidate process and identifying funding sources for women and minority candidates.
Domestic Violence: A Cross Comparative Legal Study
FAIR Fund's publication on domestic violence will give a legal overview on the struggle to implement domestic violence laws in fifteen of its working countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. The study will look at current cases, international treaties, and the impact of these laws on women's everyday lives.
Trafficking: A Cross Comparative Trafficking Study
FAIR Fund's publication on trafficking will give a legal overview on the struggle to implement laws prosecuting traffickers and protecting their victims in fifteen of its working countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. The study will look at current cases, international treaties, and the impact of these laws on women's everyday lives.
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FAIR Fund Programs:
In the past 3 years, FAIR Fund has supported programs for over 10,000 young women that are geared toward ending violence against women. Program initiatives and projects are conceptualized and managed by local partners, thus ensuring beneficial long-term civic involvement and interest. Youth, in particular younger women, are program leaders and managers in each of FAIR Fund’s programs. Our programs are based on the concept of “evidence-based activism,” whereby FAIR Fund conducts in-depth baseline assessments and field research on the needs of youth in a particular community, the historical context of gender-based violence and human trafficking in the region, and the current gaps in programmatic and advocacy support to protect youth from all forms of gender-based violence. This research is often coupled with direct surveys and interviews with youth themselves to determine their own experiences and attitudes toward their situation and ambitions in becoming civically active to address gender-based violence.
Program Overview
In 2006, FAIR Fund focused on five specific programs: preventing youth trafficking in the greater Washington, DC area, building an international student movement against trafficking in persons, reducing orphan youth’s risks toward sexual and labor exploitation in select Eastern European countries, and educating African street girls about how to protect themselves from sexual violence. FAIR Fund is a member of the Washington, D.C. Anti Trafficking Task Force and co-leads the Youth Service Committee. As well, FAIR Fund is a member of and the Committee Chair of the International Committee for the Freedom Network USA, a collaborative network of anti-trafficking organizations across the United States. FAIR Fund staff have trained over 400 Washington area youth service providers and law enforcement officials about best ways to identify and assist youth at risk of commercial sexual exploitation, a form of human trafficking. In 2007, FAIR Fund will continue to serve the needs of youth by working with them and their communities to create a world where women and youth are free from a life of gender-based violence.
 
FAIR Fund Programs At a Glance
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