Verticals
RACE Lab implements its mandate through programs designed under its three verticals
RESEARCH
The team of anti-human trafficking experts, researchers, and academicians at RACE Lab are dedicated to developing innovative approaches to combat human trafficking and related issues, pioneering a new generation of knowledge and solutions driven by evidence-based actionable research and policy advocacy to help understand human trafficking through intersectional analysis and beyond the lens of gender-based violence while locating anti-trafficking work as part of a globalized movement.
We prioritize the following areas of research:
Intervention-Based Research: To understand the successful models and gaps in the interventionist efforts of CSOs.
Empirical Action-Oriented Research: Through research and study on various aspects of human trafficking, we endeavor to understand the domestic and global situation, with reference to cause and effect, dimensions beyond the conventional definition, the vulnerability and attempts to ameliorate it, the methods used by traffickers to sustain captivity and role of stakeholders in prevention, protection, and prosecution, and other issues including mental health, data analysis.
Research on Extant Legal Framework and Policies in India and across the globe: RACE Lab is a resource center and data bank on existing trends, practices, actions, and domestic and international legislations and policies on human trafficking. Our researchers study the existing gaps between policy and practice to design evidence-based sustainable solutions taking into account the lived experiences of the survivors of human trafficking and the marginalized sections of society.
Advocacy
RACE lab plays a leading role in advocacy with the national and international stakeholders to effect changes in legislation, policies, and action in the field of human trafficking. Through advocacy, we collaborate and coordinate with institutions working on human trafficking locally and globally to share knowledge and experiences and stay updated on the progress attained.
Our endeavor is to expand the global anti-human trafficking community leading to a concerted effort to end human trafficking.
Our advocacy efforts are focused on two areas:
Advocacy with state actors on their legislations, policies, and schemes to provide evidence-based inputs for policies and legislations through consultative processes.
Provide evidence-based empirical data and narratives to inspire and help the civil society, government and non-government players, and the corporate and business houses to fine-tune their anti-human trafficking efforts for enhanced effectiveness and impact.
Strengthen the systemic response to the issue of human Trafficking by extending support in preparing guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), especially for the police.
Capacity Building
We work on the capacity building of stakeholders through continuous engagement to create an effective ecosystem to end human trafficking.
Our endeavor is to work towards creating a violence-free world, ending contemporary forms of slavery and human trafficking, and amplifying the voices of those who have suffered and survived extreme and oppressive abuses by creating an ecosystem for the appropriate intersection between human rights and, national and international laws and policies.
Our capacity-building approach is focused on:
Conceptual Literacy: We spread basic knowledge about human trafficking among the masses by creating awareness on the subject.
Conceptual Clarity: We educate and provide in-depth knowledge about human trafficking to the essential stakeholders who have an important role to play in combating human trafficking.
Skill Set Development: We prepare and equip the essential stakeholders to prevent and respond to human trafficking.