Polaris is a nonprofit non-governmental organization that works to combat and prevent sex and labor trafficking in North America.

The organization's 10-year strategy is built around the understanding that human trafficking does not happen in vacuum but rather is the predictable end result of a range of other persistent injustices and inequities in our society and our economy.

[4] Polaris also advocates for stronger state and federal anti-trafficking legislation, and engages community members in local and national grassroots efforts.

Victims, survivors and others can contact the Trafficking Hotline through phone text (233733), web form and online chat, in both English and Spanish.

Reason magazine editor Elizabeth Nolan Brown referred to Polaris as "one of the biggest purveyors of bad statistics dressed up as 'human trafficking awareness'".