About
Love Justice International (LJI) is an NGO dedicated to fighting human trafficking. Their primary strategy involves a method called transit monitoring, where trained staff identify and assist potential victims at transit hubs like borders and bus stations. By interviewing potential victims in the process of being trafficked, LJI gathers crucial intelligence that aids local police in investigating and arresting perpetrators. This approach allows them to stop trafficking before slavery occurs and to dismantle criminal networks by ensuring arrests and legal cases are pursued effectively.
Challenge
To enhance their preventative efforts, LJI began monitoring web platforms for job advertisements luring individuals into trafficking situations. Initially, this process was entirely manual, with their team searching through web platforms and logging data in spreadsheets. By leveraging Bright Data‘s APIs, LJI successfully automated its data collection, pulling in 1,000 to 2,000 new job advertisements every night into their custom-built web app. This influx of data was instrumental in developing a graph analysis tool that exposes the hidden architecture of trafficking networks. The results were immediate, allowing their team to intercept more than 20 potential victims within just a couple of weeks.
Impact
This new data-driven approach yielded immediate and powerful results. The organization is now building a system using AI and LLMs to score job advertisements based on “red flags” allowing their teams to focus on the most critical cases. The ultimate goal is to scale this operation with teams in multiple countries, and a dedicated digital investigations unit to proactively warn and protect potential victims identified through their analysis.
To read more about Love Justice, please visit: lovejustice.ngo
