Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of people for labor or sexual services by means of coercion, violence, or deception. According to Native Hope, a non-profit organization, it is roughly a 150 billion dollars global business. Victims are from all genders, ages, and backgrounds. The U.S. Department of Justice states that traffickers can be family members, partners, acquaintances, or strangers.
Key Statistics:
Here are two videos published by the Department of Homeland Security on labor and sex trafficking:
https://www.dhs.gov/medialibrary/assets/video/21847 (5 min)
https://www.dhs.gov/medialibrary/assets/video/21832 (7+min)
Here is the link to a video to help identify and report human trafficking:
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/general-public-indicators-training-course (21+min)
Key Statistics:
- 25% of all victims are children age 17 or younger, representing 10 million girls and boys worldwide
- Nearly 30% of all victims are men and boys; jumping to 46% for victims of forced labor
- Of the 24.9 million victims of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation (2016), nearly 1 of 4 were exploited outside their home country
- For every 1,000 people across the world in 2016, 5.4 were victims of human trafficking
Here are two videos published by the Department of Homeland Security on labor and sex trafficking:
https://www.dhs.gov/medialibrary/assets/video/21847 (5 min)
https://www.dhs.gov/medialibrary/assets/video/21832 (7+min)
Here is the link to a video to help identify and report human trafficking:
https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/general-public-indicators-training-course (21+min)