When a lawyer and a diplomat join forces to battle human trafficking, the result—at least in the case of Anahita and Heiko Thoms—is an initiative that has given nonprofits a platform to raise money and to meet other people who are fighting for the same cause.
United Against Modern Slavery began about a year ago in the home of Anahita Thoms, counsel to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and her husband, Heiko Thoms, who has served as deputy permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations. The couple became aware of the growing problem of human trafficking through their work and decided to use their connections and resources to bring together attorneys, leaders of nonprofits and UN organizations and charities who are working to help victims. One of the initiative’s main projects is to encourage collaboration between pro-bono attorneys and non-governmental organizations, known as NGOs.
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