WHAT CAN I DO?

Learn the red flags of human trafficking an report any suspicious activity to
the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888
Be a conscientious consumer. Slaveryfootprint.org [[74 slaves for me]]
Donate $$
Inform yourself and others
Organize awareness events- Jan 11
Protect by prevention
o Traffickers could be classmates. Traffickers use kids to lure in other
kids. Traffickers pose as teens on social media sites. Look for red flags,
avg entry age is 12-13 so girls with older boyfriend-look out. Modeling
agencies or talent scouts.
Pray
o spiritual battle in need of spiritual combatting
Learn more
o Terrify No More- Gary Haugen and Gregg Hunter
o Good News About Injustice and Just Courage- Gary Haugen
o Escaping the Devils Bedroom- Dawn H. Jewell
o Renting Lacey- Linda Smith
o Disposable People- Kevin Bales
o Not For Sale- David Batstone
o Priceless- Tom Davis
o Nefarious
o Trade of Innocents



FACTS:
o After drug dealing, human trafficking (both sex and forced labor trafficking)
is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second largest criminal industry
in the world today, and it is the number one fasting growing criminal
industry( U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
o 27 million adults and 13 million around the world who are victims of human
trafficking
o Worldwide, there are nearly two million children in the commercial sex trade
(UNICEF)
o Approximately 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls and up
to 50% are minors
o The total market value of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in excess
of $32 billion
o Pimp has become a glamorized term.
o 1 in every 5 pornographic videos/images contains a trafficking incident
o DEFINITION of human SEX trafficking- the act of recruiting, harboring,
transporting or obtaining a person for a commercial sex act through the use
of force, fraud or coercion.
o 98% of all sexual trafficking victims are women and girls
o As many as 2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global
commercial sex trade
o At least 15,000 people are trafficking INTO the Us annually
o Governments estimate that there are any where from 27-30 million slaves
today, however this is a behind closed doors industry so there could very
well be more.
o Sexual exploitation makes up 79% of identified forms of human trafficking,
including prostitution, forced stripping, massage services and pornography
o Men are often trafficked into hard labor jobs, while children are trafficked
into labor positions in textile, agriculture and fishing industries. Women and
girls are typically trafficked into the commercial sex industry
o Not all slaves are trafficked, but all trafficking victims are victims of slavery.
Human trafficking is a particularly cruel form of slavery because it involves
removing the victim from all that is familiar to them and redering them to
complete isolation, and often in an environment where they are unable to
communicate due to a language barrier between fellow captives and/or their
captor
o Some sex trafficking is highly visible, such as street prostition. However
many victims remain unseen, operating out of unmarked brothels. Sex
traffickers will operate out of both public and private locations: massage
parlors, cantinas, spas, strip clubs, and even private homes/apartments
o 49% of all trafficking profits come from industrialized economies (U.s)
o In 1850, the cost of a slave (in todays dollars) was $40,000. In modern
slavery, the price of a slave in $30.
o Babies from Nigeria: $6,400
o Babies in China: $7,800
o Babies in Indonesia: $160 to $250
o Babies in Malaysia: $6,588
o Baby in North Caucasus, Russia: $17,500
o Boy in China: $14,473
o Cambodia and Thailand Victims: $45,000
in Revenue
o Children in Ghana: $50 to parent, then
$300 to trafficker
o Children in India: $45, versus $350 for
buffalo
o Children in Iraq: Between $300 to $5,500
o Children in Mali: $600 for child soldier
o Children in Thailand: $25 typical price to
"rent" a child beggar
o Children in Thailand - Pattaya: $300 for
Cambodian Children
o Children in the United Kingdom: $25,000
o Girls from Romania: $3,000 to $6,000
o Girls in Bangladesh: $250
o Girls in Kenya: $600 for Girls between the
age of 10 to 15
o Grils from Mozambique: $2
o Haiti Immigrants in Chile: $1,000
o People from Yemen: $1,000 to Egypt
o Person in Canada: $4,879 paid by pimp to
trafficker
o Teenage girls in Iraq: $5,000 for Virgins,
$2.500 for Non-Virigns
o Teenage girls in Ontario, Canada: $5,989
for a girl from Quebec
o Woman in Pakistan: $342
o Women from Myanmar: $7,300 as brides
to China
o Women from Nepal: $975 in Mumbai
o Women from Nigeria: $40,000 to $78,000
to pimp to be released in Italy
o Women from North Korea (by age): $1,066
(20s), $761 (30s), $457 (40s)
o Women from Vietnam to China: $5,700 to
purchase wife
o Women from Vietnam to Malaysia: $6,174
to purchase wife
o Women in Mali: Less than $1,000 for bride
o Certain cantinas in the U.S. and around the world, a male can pay $15-20 for a
beer and a woman comes complimentarily with the drink
o Greatest sources of trafficking victims: Thailand, Nigeria, China, Albania,
Bulgaria, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
o Common Destination Countries for trafficking victims: United States,
Germany, Italy, Thailand, Japan, and Israel
o WHY DONT THEY RUN AWAY?
o Corrupt police and government officials
o Mental dependency
o Smuggled in country illegally
o Many times, if a slave is arrested, she is imprisoned while her trafficker
is able to buy his way out of trouble


HOW DO THEY GET INVOLVED?
o School- vulnerable girls
o Modeling agencies
o Third world countries sell children
o Boyfriends
o Deception
o Debt bondage

WHO PURCHASES THESE WOMEN?
Most of the actual purchasing happens in developed countries like ours, men from
all different backgrounds and sectors will purchase these women; including men
who are husbands and fathers.
In other countries, there is a myth that if a male infected with an STD has sex with a
young virgin, they will be cured of their STD.
16% of the men in the US have purchased a sex act

o There are more slaves today than ever before in history
o FORMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: sex trafficking, forced labor industry,
organ harvesting
o Breaking in Girls Sex traffickers will train girls themselves, raping them and
starving them until they are completely submissive. Sex traffickers use a
variety of ways to condition their newly purchased women. Including:
starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, threats of
violence toward the victim or victims family, forced drug use and shaming
o An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse,
disease, torture and neglect. 80% of those deaths are women under the age
of 24 and some are as young as 6 years old
o Convicted trafficker, Ludwig Tarzan Fainber You can buy a woman for
$10,000 and make your money back in a week if she is pretty and young.
Everything else is just profit
o Once a girl is broken in, a pimp can sell her back for up to 20 times what he
paid for her. A single sex slave can earn her pimp at least $250,000 a year
o Over 71% of trafficked children show suicidal tendencies
o Human Trafficking is the fasting growing criminal enterprise because it holds
relatively low risk with a high profit potential. Ex Trafficker You can only
sell drugs or an illegal weapon once, but you can sell a girl 30 times a night
o 52% of trafficking recruiters are men, 42% are women and 6% pose as both
genders
o in 54% of trafficking cases the trafficker is a stranger, in 46% of the cases the
trafficker is known by the victim.
o The FBI estimates that over 100,000 children and young women are
trafficked in American today. Average age being 11. Many victims are not just
runaways or abandoned children, but are from good families who are
coerced by clever traffickers
o Houston, Texas is the LARGEST hub for human trafficking in the U.S. because
of the Ship Channel areas, the Galleria, the large airport, I10. I-10 has been
labeled as the number one trafficking corridor in the nation
o Former trafficking bodyguard Ohad Shaul said I wouldnt say the living
condition of a dog because you take your dog out once or twice a day
o Average entry age is 13 and after that their life expectancy is only 7 years
o ATTENTION GETTER: If you were in the 1800s and 1900s were slavery was
extremely prevalent, would you fight against it? Would you try to end it? Well
what if I told you that right now there are an estimated 27 million slaved who
need you to fight for them? This is more slaves than there have ever been in
the history of the world.
o What is needed to stage a police raid- must be caught in the act of trading
money or caught in the sexual act.