Alika Kinan is a survivor of Human Trafficking by sexual exploitation and an abolitionist activist. She is a researcher of trafficking and exploitation of people to help improve the processes of analysis, formulation, development and application of legislation and public policies on the matter.
She has received recognition for her work in national and international circles, among these: The 2017 Heroes Against Modern Slavery Recognition, awarded by the United States Department of State during the International Encounter Against Trafficking in Persons, held at the Washington Capitol; The 2016 Recognition of Merit, awarded by the Deliberative Council of the city of Ushuaia; The 2015 Outstanding Woman of the Year award, granted by the National Senate of Argentina.
Among her main achievements is having won the first case, where the victim, after having been rescued from 16 years of sexual slavery, becomes a plaintiff to litigate against her pimps and a Municipal State that the Court of Federal Cassation considered an accomplice as a “ruffian and pimp.”
She currently works in the Academic Secretariat of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM) directing the Program of Studies, Research and Training of Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons (PEFITE), of her own authorship and the first to have been created and coordinated by a survivor of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Promoter and reviewer of the first job quota, of state order, for women victims of sexual trafficking in Argentina, at the National University of Tierra del Fuego, being in that province where she was sexually treated and exploited, in which she has sustained work with victims of the crime.
President and CEO of the Alika Kinan Foundation, where legal and psychological assistance is provided for victims of trafficking and exploitation and research and training processes are developed and activities are carried out to make this problem visible. She is a senior member of the U.S. Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum’s Anti-Human Trafficking Subcommittee with the shared mission of combatting the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, human trafficking.
Alika Kinan is the mother of a large family and dedicates herself entirely to her work, activism and family, as she has found it to be the catalist for her process of recovery from the torture she suffered. Love, teach, accompany and help.
