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Promoting Justice and Peace through education and action for social change.


The Topeka Center for Peace and Justice’s mission is to promote justice and peace through education and action for social change by working with individuals and organizations in the greater Topeka community.

It organizes programs that appeal to a wide audience and that empower people. It networks with other organizations, congregations, and community groups.

You are invited to participate in this work. For more information or to volunteer please contact Jim McCollough at 785-232-4388 or complete our online form.


TCPJ has moved!

Topeka Center for Peace and Justice has moved to a new location in the heart of Topeka.

The new office is located at 2914 SW MacVicar, about one block south of the stoplight at 29th Street and MacVicar.

“We’re excited that our new location is more accessible and that it offers us more office space,” Executive Director Jim McCollough said. “We invite our supporters to drop by and visit us at our new location.”

The Center’s phone number and e-mail will remain the same, Jim said. 

Executive Director Jim McCollough at his desk in the new Center office

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE

This is the second in a series on Human Trafficking developed by Topeka Center for Peace and Justice and Washburn University.

Human Trafficking is a global and regional criminal industry in our country today ….

Did you know?

  •  Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others.
  • As defined under U.S. federal law, victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different forms of “labor or services”.
  • The factors that each of these situations have in common are elements of force, fraud, or coercion that are used to control people.  Every year, traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people around the world, and here in the United States.  Human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world.

 Because human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries, the U.S. government and academic researchers are currently working on an up-to-date estimate of the total number of trafficked persons in the United States annually.  With 100,000 children estimated to be in the sex trade in the United States each year, it is clear that the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.

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