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International Awareness - Human Trafficking Facts
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Human Trafficking Facts
Fact #1
According to research conducted by the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, $9.5 billion is generated through human trafficking around the globe.
About $4 billion of that is from sex labor. That makes human trafficking the third most profitable organized criminal activity. The only two criminal industries which pull in more money than that are trafficking in drugs and weapons
Fact #2
Sex trafficking victims are not only bought and sold for sex, but also other forms of physical violence. One study cites a reported 65% of female sex trafficking victims had received serious physical injuries. 24% of those women had head injuries, and more than 10% also had broken bones. Furthermore, the rate of contracting STDs goes up tremendously, and the odds of contracting the HIV virus are ten times as high.
Fact #3
While you may not associate human trafficking with living in the United States, this country takes part in the illegal labor market as well (both buyers and sellers).
The US Department of State reports more than half of the victims of trafficking are under 18. Children who are trafficked are often already the victims of abuse. Having fled their homes in search for safety, they fall into the hands of traffickers, who exploit them further.
Fact #4
The State Department estimates that between 14,500 – 17,500 human beings are brought into the U.S. as slaves every single year.
That means there are a lot of US buyers. It’s enough to make you wonder who they are and whether you yourself have ever met a perpetrator or victim of human trafficking—even living in the sheltered suburbs and affluent areas in Anniston or Oxford. Buyers after all have to have the money to afford human labor. Odds are if you are living in an affluent neighborhood, it is actually more likely and not less that you will stumble across slavery. And you probably will never know it.
Fact #1
According to research conducted by the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, $9.5 billion is generated through human trafficking around the globe.
About $4 billion of that is from sex labor. That makes human trafficking the third most profitable organized criminal activity. The only two criminal industries which pull in more money than that are trafficking in drugs and weapons
Fact #2
Sex trafficking victims are not only bought and sold for sex, but also other forms of physical violence. One study cites a reported 65% of female sex trafficking victims had received serious physical injuries. 24% of those women had head injuries, and more than 10% also had broken bones. Furthermore, the rate of contracting STDs goes up tremendously, and the odds of contracting the HIV virus are ten times as high.
Fact #3
While you may not associate human trafficking with living in the United States, this country takes part in the illegal labor market as well (both buyers and sellers).
The US Department of State reports more than half of the victims of trafficking are under 18. Children who are trafficked are often already the victims of abuse. Having fled their homes in search for safety, they fall into the hands of traffickers, who exploit them further.
Fact #4
The State Department estimates that between 14,500 – 17,500 human beings are brought into the U.S. as slaves every single year.
That means there are a lot of US buyers. It’s enough to make you wonder who they are and whether you yourself have ever met a perpetrator or victim of human trafficking—even living in the sheltered suburbs and affluent areas in Anniston or Oxford. Buyers after all have to have the money to afford human labor. Odds are if you are living in an affluent neighborhood, it is actually more likely and not less that you will stumble across slavery. And you probably will never know it.
Fact #5
Human trafficking victims are denied the experience of an ordinary life, often for many years at a time, if not their entire lifetime.
They are more than likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder. The victims of child labor in particular are unlikely to have a normal perspective on life. These factors make it more likely that past victims of human trafficking will engage in drug use and violent behavior, perpetuating the cycle of crime around the globe and feeding into the same organizations which abused them in the first place.
Human trafficking victims are denied the experience of an ordinary life, often for many years at a time, if not their entire lifetime.
They are more than likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder. The victims of child labor in particular are unlikely to have a normal perspective on life. These factors make it more likely that past victims of human trafficking will engage in drug use and violent behavior, perpetuating the cycle of crime around the globe and feeding into the same organizations which abused them in the first place.