MiraMed Institute

The MiraMed Institute was founded in 1991 to provide programs of social protection, education, training and self-sufficiency and advocacy for orphans, disadvantaged children and young adults in Russia . They provide direct humanitarian aid, medicine, food and supplies to orphanages in need; educate and advocate for the elimination of sexual trafficking of girls and young women from Russia and the former Republics and assist in their rescue, return and rehabilitation. MiraMed is a non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultation with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. As a social program recognized by the United Nations, MiraMed can serve a valuable role in advising on the nexus between freedom of religion or belief and the status of displaced and orphaned women and girls under Article 18 of the ICCPR and Article V of the 1981 U.N. Declaration on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

MiraMed launched Angel Coalition against trafficking - http://www.angelcoalition.org. The Angel Coalition is a consortium of 43 Russian and CIS NGO's (non-governmental organizations) that was created in 1999 in response to the growing international crisis of trafficking of young CIS women and girls by international criminal groups for purposes of forced prostitution to over 50 countries around the world.