Degree course to pursue MA in Human Rights

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How do you find jobs in human trafficking? I am very interested in that field as well. I was thinking of going to a local volunteer thing but will see.

I work in IT now. so it is a little different than fighting human trafficking.

I have been reading books on human trafficking and would like to learn more and get more involved.


BTW nations university 84 credits for Masters in Divinity that is insane.  I will be there for 4-5 years with having to do that many credits

First off, I have experience in this and am heavily involved in the anti-sex trafficking community. You can find jobs in human trafficking all over the place, but you really need to decide what you want to be doing and who you want to work with. For example, working with trafficked migrant farm workers is a totally different ballgame than people who have experienced sex trafficking. Within sex-trafficking there are also divisions for domestic, international, adults, or minors. Also, the community tends to be very leery of outsiders in order to protect clients from being re-trafficked. If you get into volunteering don't expect to be hired by the non-profit you are volunteering with as they tend to prefer the free work. However, getting into volunteering can allow you to hear about other job opportunities that may not be advertised. I will say though that if you have not actually experienced trafficking yourself then the positions you might end up working could be farther removed from the clients that what you might want. Organizations know that people who have experienced trafficking often have difficulty finding work, and are great at providing peer support, so there is a heavy preference to hire people with lived experiences in trafficking. The communities most affected by sex trafficking have a well known saying "Nothing about us without us". If you have not actually experienced trafficking I would not expect to be doing any sort of long-term intense work directly with those who are coming out of trafficking experiences. People want to think this only happens with people who are poor and/or uneducated, but that is not the case, and the last thing most of them want is someone who might think of them as being less capable than they truly are... which is why having people with lived experiences actually taking these jobs is so important.

For general jobs in trafficking check Indeed.com and this list:
http://www.endslaverynow.org/act/job-opportunities

Also, an MDiv for the trafficking community would really limit your options for work so I would not suggest that path. People who have experienced sex trafficking are often hesitant about anything associated with religion due to feeling and actually being judged. Plus, the MDiv degrees in trafficking tend to really skim over what trafficking is about and is not especially useful. People coming out of these situations need solid support in getting their lives back together. Unless a person has an MDiv with a degree in counseling that they can give an actual DSM diagnosis which will help them get a diagnosis for PTSD or depression from the trafficking, which in turn can help them access short-term government financial support, then the MDiv is not going to be someone high up on the list of important people to talk to. Generally when people first come out of these experiences they need immediate access to housing, food, medical, legal, peer support and/or counseling, and eventually work opportunities when they are done taking care of themselves in the other ways. 

I will second the MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy as a great option. That would actually be useful in legislative policy work, advocacy work, and in terms of collecting data for grant writing. It's something I had looked at and it transfers into the Harvard Extension Masters in Development Practice.
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/mitx-m...ice-degree

Quick questions!
1) Has anyone done the BALS here and was accepted into an MBA program (Patten, Hodges, or elsewhere)?

Yes, and I am currently doing the Walden MBA but was also accepted at WGU.