By: Ashley Bennett

What is Human Trafficking?

 Human Trafficking is the organized movement of people,
usually women, between countries and within countries for sex
work with the use of physical coercion, deception and bondage
through forced debt
 Where is it happening?
* Human Trafficking is happening all around the
world, in many countries, and has become a
business.
 Why is it happening?
* The main motive for accepting an offer from a
trafficker is to gain better financial opportunities
for family.
* Traffickers initially offer legitimate jobs such as,
catering, hotel industry, modeling contracts, or au
pair work
* Sometimes marriage, threats and kidnapping are
methods.
 Why has it become such a big business?

Unlike drugs or weapons people

can be sold many times
Human Trafficking is theThe Facts
fastest growing criminal industry
in the world

The total annual revenue is between $5billion and

$9billion

Human Trafficking has made over $42.5 billion in the past

decade

The United Nations estimates nearly 2.5 million people

from 127 different countries are being trafficked around the
world.

Trafficking victims typically are recruited using coercion,

deception, fraud, the abuse of power, or outright abduction
 What is being done in the U.S.?
TVPA- Trafficking Victim Protection Act was signed into law in
October 2000. Before this was enacted, no laws existed to
protect victims trafficking or to prosecute traffickers.

The goals of TVPA are to:

*Prevent human trafficking overseas
*Protect victims and help them rebuild their lives in the U.S. with
federal and state support.
*Prosecute Traffickers of person under stiff Federal penalties
 TVPA Provides…
 Protection and assistance for victims or
trafficking under the law include making
housing, educational, health care, job training
and other federally funded social service
programs available to assist victims in
rebuilding their lives.
temporary residence in the U.S. to victims.
Eligibility for Witness Protection Program.
 What else is the U.S. government doing?

In 2006 the United States government spent

28.5 million to advance towards the goal of
eradicating Human Trafficking.

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour

division began developing resources to help
investigators identify potential trafficking
issues.
 What are organizations doing?
There are many organizations who are
against Human Trafficking. Two of
the organizations are Not For Sale
Campaign & Share Hope
International
 NOT FOR SALE CAMPAIGN

*Headquartered in Montara, CA
*Has more than 40 regional chapters across the U.S.
& Canada
*Identifies trafficking rings inside the U.S. and
collaborates with local law enforcement and
community groups to shut them down & provide
support for the victims
 Shared Hope International
* Founded in 1998

* Founder is former Congresswoman Linda

Smith

* Mission is to rescue and restore women and

children who are victims of human trafficking