We are proud and excited to introduce Catherine Kirkendall, our Hagar USA’s new Executive Director. Some of you will recognize that Catherine is no stranger to Hagar, having worked for Hagar Cambodia in 2012 – 2013 as Relationship Manager, and then serving as a...
At the beginning of June 2019, Hagar International welcomed our new global CEO, Dr. Andrew Catford. Andrew has extensive experience in the international development sector, having lived and worked for over 20 years in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and...
This year’s report “serves as a call to action for governments around the world to embrace the full meaning of the Palermo Protocol and implement their domestic laws in a manner that protects all victims and punishes all traffickers.” The Palermo Protocol defines...
Last year, as the TIP report for 2017 was released, we echoed the sentiments of former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, “The scale of human trafficking is atrocious. The silence that conceals this crime is disgraceful. We have to speak out because the victims are...
Justice after seven years. In February 2009, the Cambodian authorities arrested Erik Leonardus Peeters, a 48-year-old American citizen, on suspicion of sexual contact with children. Peeters had arrived in Cambodia in 2008 and within two months had started to look for...
Hagar Afghanistan’s Combatting Human Trafficking in Afghanistan (CHTA) project is a capacity building project which provides high quality training programs on identifying and preventing human trafficking, for government officials, police, educators, and religious and...
