Focus Humanitarian Area served Global Key people Tim Ballard Founded 2013 | Headquarters California Method Rescue Founder Tim Ballard | |
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Type Non-governmental organization, Non-profit organization Parent organization Elizabeth Smart Foundation Similar Fight the New Drug, Shared Hope International, Polaris Project, International Justice Mission, American Center for Law & Ju | ||
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Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) is a non-profit founded by Tim Ballard which assists governments around the world in the rescue of human trafficking and sex trafficking victims with a special focus on children. O.U.R. also aids with planning, prevention, capture and prosecution of offenders, and works with partner organizations for prevention, victim recovery, and strengthened awareness or fundraising efforts. The organization has been documented for their covert operations with jump teams consisting of former CIA agents, U.S. Special Operations Forces Members, and other support volunteers. Operation Underground Railroad's ultimate goal is to eliminate Sex Trafficking world-wide. As of 2016 April, Operation Underground Railroad reports 529 victims rescued, and 182 traffickers arrested.
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History
Tim Ballard served 12 years as a U.S. Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security, on the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force and the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team. He helped infiltrate and dismantle dozens of trafficking organizations that kidnapped children and forced them into the sex slave industry. However, as a U.S. agent, Ballard was not authorized to rescue children if their cases lacked a U.S. nexus or if the case could not be tried in a U.S. court.
Ballard was frustrated with the lack of strategies employed to rescue enslaved children in underdeveloped nations (though reporting positive experience working with U.S. government professionals) and left government employ in October 2013 to found Operation Underground Railroad.
Operations
Operation Underground Railroad works with supporting governments and organizations in one or more of the following activities: prevention, discovery, preparation, rescue, or victim recovery programs. Operations are segments of any coordinated effort, training and/or direct involvement to rescue enslaved children. Operation Underground Railroad does not work independently, or without Government participation and support.
To help raise awareness, support and funding, Gerald R. Molen (producer of Schindler's List), approached Tim Ballard to document preparation and activity relating to a few covert operations. The documentary film was released in early 2016 and titled "The Abolitionists".