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What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking occurs when a human being is sold, traded, transferred, or otherwise exchanged in some way for
money, sex, labor, or other commodities. (Source: Erase Child Trafficking)

Sex Trafficking
When a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such
acts. (Source: Erase Child Trafficking)

Labor Trafficking
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use
of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
(Source: Erase Child Trafficking)

Who is Trafficked?
Human trafficking reaches every culture and demographic. Traffickers exploit potential victims by seek-
ing individuals with exploitable vulnerabilities. Common risk factors include: youth, poverty, unemployment, home-
lessness, family history of violence and abuse, a need and desire to be loved, immigration status, etc. (Source: Erase
Child Trafficking)

Statistics
• 57% of shelter youth were found to be U.S. Citizen minor sex trafficking victims. (Source: Healing Place Baton
Rouge)
• 72% of girls in substance abuse and probation diversion programs have a history of commercial sex and ALL
identified having a pimp. (Source: West Care Nevada)
• 2,170 is the number is cases of child labor trafficking identified from December 2, 2007 to January 30, 2017.
(Source: National Human Trafficking Hotline)
• In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in the care of social services or foster care
when they ran. (Source: Polaris)
• The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally.
It is estimated that 81% of them are trapped in forced labor, 25% of them are children and 75% are women and
girls. (Source: Polaris)
• The International Labor Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry
worldwide. (Source: Polaris)

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