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TAT in the News

Stay informed about the ways TAT’s programs, partnerships, activities and advocacy are making a tangible difference in the fight against human trafficking.

Publications

Follow the growth and vitality of our organization’s journey by exploring our publications. Our monthly newsletters chronicle TAT’s activities throughout North America with members of key industries and agencies as we work to fulfill our mission, while quarterly reports spotlight TAT champions we work with and how their efforts multiply impact and make a difference in their various spheres of influence. TAT’s annual reports are rich in detail and numbers, communicating our yearly impact and milestones.

Annual Reports
Quarterly Reports
Monthly Newsletters

Media Resources

TAT is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to raising up a defensive force of transportation professionals across North America to assist law enforcement in the recognition and reporting of human trafficking in order to aid in the recovery of victims and the arrest of perpetrators.

For media inquiries, please email info@tatnonprofit.org. For an overview of TAT, please reference the TAT fact sheet, which includes up-to-date training numbers, awards and partnership information.

For additional information, navigate to the following pages:

Who We Are

Awards TAT has received

Financials

About TAT

TAT's Brand Assets

Please email info@tatnonprofit.org if you need additional file types of our logo or need our full document with TAT’s brand guidelines.

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The logos provided here are the property of TAT and are made available for authorized use only. By downloading or using these logos,  you agree to adhere to our branding guidelines and use them exclusively for purposes that accurately represent our organization. Unauthorized alteration, distortion, or misuse of the logos is strictly prohibited. For clarification or permission for specific use cases, please contact TAT at info@tatnonprofit.org.

Terminology

TAT is strategic about the language it chooses when discussing human trafficking and utilizes a methodology and philosophy vetted by respected people within the anti-trafficking movement, including a number of survivor advocates. We prefer this language be used whenever speaking/writing about those who have been trafficked:

Please do not use the words:

Please do use the words:

Prostitute

Prostituted person, Survivor, Overcomer, Victim

John

Buyer

Rescue

Recover

Unless speaking about a specific victim/survivor, where you know the gender, age, etc., please keep the language gender neutral, ageless and indicative that something was done to the victim…they aren’t what has been done to them. They aren’t prostitutes. They have been prostituted.

Note: There is NO such thing as a “child prostitute” or a “teen prostitute.” In the U.S., anyone under the age of 18 being sold for commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking, as specified by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Sex work is not legal in Canada, and it is illegal to purchase sex. Sellers are immune from prosecution but that doesn’t change the fact that the prostitution transaction is illegal. It is also illegal to manage or make a profit from someone selling their own sexual services.

Imagery

TAT has a social media guide with sample graphics available to download and post to your social media channels. If you would like to request the guide, please email info@tatnonprofit.org. If you will be utilizing imagery or graphics for your website, news article or other outlet, or creating your own graphics for social media, here are some best practices in selecting images:

Avoid:

Images that sensationalize and/or misrepresent the issue: a pair of hands in handcuffs, scantily dressed women tied up with rope or barbed wire

Use:

Images that portray trafficking as it occurs in your industry and/or community and that portray the diversity of victims and traffickers

“If someone is looking for victims with handcuffs, they will miss the individuals that are being trafficked in plain sight through other types of control or coercion.”

– The Irina Project