Human Trafficking Awareness

Human Trafficking Defined: According to ABC-CLIO, Human Trafficking is "the action of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of: the threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim for the purposes of exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery or similar practices, and the removal of organs." (Bales)   


Types of Forced Labor:

1. Prostitution
2. Domestic Labor
3. Farm Labor
4. Factory Labor
5. Mining
6. Land Clearance
7. Markets

(Bales)

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Trafficking Info-graphic by Nick Koch We Are Chapter One

Statistics

• Human Trafficking has become more popular due to improved transportations and communications, easier access across borders since Cold War and civil conflicts.(Bales)

• "Approximately 70 percent of those trafficked are women and girls and nearly 50 percent are minors"(Human Trafficking).

• New York, California, and Florida are the states with the largest concentration of human trafficking.(Talati)

• "According to U.S. State Department estimates, which are considered condervative, each year somewhere between 600 thousand and 820 thousand men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders"(Human Trafficking).

•  "According to the U.S. Department of Justice, human trafficking has become the second-fastest-growing criminal industry -- just behind drug trafficking -- with children accounting for roughly half of all victims. Of the 2,515 cases under investigation in the U.S. in 2010, more than 1,000 involved children"(Baldas).

• "Human trafficking is a $32-billion industry worldwide"(Baldas).

•   "Eight in 10 human trafficking cases involve the sex industry; the others involve labor trafficking"(Baldas).

Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 U.S. Department of Justice; Free the Slaves

• "Up to 2 million people are trafficked worldwide every year. Of those, 15,000-18,000 are in the U.S."(Baldas).

• "Eighty-three percent of victims in confirmed sex trafficking cases in the U.S. in 2010 were American citizens, though 67% of labor trafficking victims were unlawful immigrants and 28% were legal immigrants" (Baldas).

Citations:


"Human Trafficking." Global Issues in Context Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Global Issues In Context. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.

Baldas, Tresa. "Human Trafficking Growing Almost As Fast As Drug Trade, Officials Say." Detroit Free Press. 22 Jan 2012: A.1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 12 Mar 2012.

Talati, Ronak. Human Trafficking. Mount Sinai Emergency Medical Department,
American Osler Society, AMSA, & Brown Medical School, 2012. Web. 12 Apr.
2012. <http://www.humantraffickingED.com/contact.html>.

Bales, Kevin. "Human Trafficking." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.