
THE FIGHT
OVER 20 MILLION
MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN ARE BEING
HELD CAPTIVE TODAY

WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
There are three officially recognized forms of Human trafficking in the world today.
The first is sexual exploitation which involves a pimp selling an individual (often female between the ages of 12 and 14) to a "date" or "john" for sexual favors, including, but not limited to sexual intercourse. These sorts of arrangements commonly occur at hotels, large events, strip clubs, brothels and massage/nail parlours.
The second is labor trafficking in which an employer or producer of some sort makes a promise of paid employment to someone who either doesn't currently live in the area or is in some form of debt to them. Once the individual gets the position the employer will withold wages because of the debt or isolate the person in less than ideal conditions because they can't survive without them for various reasons (language barriers between the victim and the community are a common issue and the main reason that victims cannot reach out to local law enforcement).
The final form of trafficking is the Illegal Organ Trade. Often individuals are tricked into giving up an organ to make themselves some quick money and are then never paid, however violent attacks resulting in forced organ removal have also occured.
In the end the federal definition of human trafficking is:
"the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery".
Therefore any crime under this definition could be called human trafficking.
THE HARD TRUTH
HUMAN TRAFFICKING MAKES 150 BILLION DOLLARS EVERY YEAR
55% of victims
ARE WOMEN AND GIRLS
26% (over five million) victims
ARE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN
Human trafficking is a worldwide epidemic that affects every gender, sex, age, class, race and ethnicity. This crime occurs in every country, state, county and village in the world and it lands in the top 3 of the most lucrative criminal industries in history (just beneath drugs and just over illegal weaponry). 20.9 million individuals are currently being affected worldwide and the worst part is that the number is likely much higher than that.