What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude.
Every country is affected by human trafficking, whether they are an origin country where people are trafficked from; a transit country where people are trafficked through; or a destination country where people are trafficked to. Often a country will be all three. Men, women and children are trafficked.
Due to the hidden and illegal nature of human trafficking, gathering statistics on the scale of the problem is difficult. The following statistics may represent an underestimation of trafficking, but are the most credible and frequently quoted.
– Stop The Traffik
Human Trafficking Worldwide Today
People trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for organised crime.
– The UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Human Trafficking is a 32 billion dollar per year industry.
– The United Nations Over 27 million people are enslaved around the world. This is more than double the number of Africans enslaved during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
– Kevin Bales; Free the Slaves
The majority of trafficked victims arguably come from the poorest countries and poorest strata of the national population.
– A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
The trafficking of human beings is tied with arms dealing as the second largest criminal industry in the world and the fastest growing.
– US Department of Health and Human Services
– The UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Human Trafficking is a 32 billion dollar per year industry.
– The United Nations Over 27 million people are enslaved around the world. This is more than double the number of Africans enslaved during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
– Kevin Bales; Free the Slaves
The majority of trafficked victims arguably come from the poorest countries and poorest strata of the national population.
– A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
The trafficking of human beings is tied with arms dealing as the second largest criminal industry in the world and the fastest growing.
– US Department of Health and Human Services
The average age of entry into commercial sex slavery in the United States is 13 years old.
– United States Department of Justice
– United States Department of Justice
600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Approximately 80 per cent are women and girls. Up to 50% are minors.
– US Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2005
– US Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2005