Racha Haffar

Racha Haffar is a Tunisian-American award-winning gender justice and anti-human trafficking activist. At the age of 24, Haffar decided to dedicate her life to combating human trafficking and modern slavery after realizing she almost got trafficked while looking for jobs abroad to support her education. Since then, she has founded Not 4 Trade Organization, Youth Against Slavery Movement, and the Anti Slavery Collective for Generation Equality Forum to prevent other youth from becoming victims and to ensure everyone learns about these crimes.

Haffar held consultative and leadership positions in different organizations namely African Youth Networks Movement founded by Graca Mandella, Global Africans Against Slavery and UN Women´s Gender Innovation Agora and Generation Equality Youth Task Force. She is also a Fulbright Alumna at the University of Kentucky, a journalist and a university professor of public speaking and professional communication. She received her double masters’ degrees in International Relations and International Development and Cooperation from the Universities of Tunis and Palermo. Haffar is also an internationally CPD-certified trainer on Human Trafficking and related issues from Safe Coalition for Human Rights.

She is extremely passionate about fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery. She was honored three times and received the Women’s Rights Award from the United Nations Association, the Leadership Award from the University of Kentucky, and an award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She published her research on “The Developments of Trafficking in Women in Post-Revolution Tunisia” on Slavery Today Journal. Haffar also gave a TEDx talk on “The Art of Befriending Your Fears.”