Human trafficking occurs when a person is forced into a service against their will—usually forced work or prostitution. Often one person controls another by exploiting a vulnerability. The control can be physical, financial, or psychological.
Magnitude of Problem
40.3 million people in forced labor, sexual exploitation, and forced marriage worldwide
$150 billion annually in profits
World's fastest-growing criminal industry
$150 billion annually in profits
World's fastest-growing criminal industry
Trafficking Tiers
Tier 3 governments are doing the least to eliminate trafficking.
Root of the Problem
Economics. Trafficking is cost-effective—meeting consumers’ demand for low priced goods and services. It’s profitable. Exploiters earn up to 1000x profit on a sex worker.
This leads to recruiting and coercing low-cost laborers or slaves to produce goods (clothing, coffee, fish) and offer services (paid sex, domestic help) at lower prices and higher volume. This labor is performed by the most economically desperate, who are at high risk of exploitation.
This leads to recruiting and coercing low-cost laborers or slaves to produce goods (clothing, coffee, fish) and offer services (paid sex, domestic help) at lower prices and higher volume. This labor is performed by the most economically desperate, who are at high risk of exploitation.
Types of Trafficking
Non-Sexual Forced Labor (50%): Work done under the threat of a penalty such as violence or harm to family. People are often further controlled by debt bondage.
Sexual Forced Labor (12%): Controlled by violence, threats, substance abuse, deception, or grooming, with extreme physical or psychological domination.
Domestic Servitude or Forced Marriage (38%): Forced to provide services with the obligation to live on or in a property without the possibility of changing those circumstances.
Sexual Forced Labor (12%): Controlled by violence, threats, substance abuse, deception, or grooming, with extreme physical or psychological domination.
Domestic Servitude or Forced Marriage (38%): Forced to provide services with the obligation to live on or in a property without the possibility of changing those circumstances.
