IN PLAIN SIGHT
Human Trafficking: The use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of exploitation. Every year, MILLIONS of men, women, and children are trafficked WORLDWIDE – including right here in the United States. It can happen in any community and victims can be any age, race, gender, or nationality.
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Sex Trafficking:
| $99 Billion of the $150 billion yearly global profit of human trafficking,
comes from commerical sexual exploitation |
• More than 300,000 young people in the US are considered "at risk" of sexual exploitation.
• The International Labour Organization estimates that 99% of people forced into sexual exploitation in 2016 are female.
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Forced Labor:
| 50% of trafficking victims are in labor slavery |
•24% of labor trafficked adults are domestic workers
•18% of labor trafficked adults are cnstruction wookers
•15% of labor trafficked adults are in manufacturing
•11% of labor trafficked adults are in agriculture and fishing sectors
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Child Trafficking
| 46 children in America are taken and sold into slavery per day |
•1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children
•51.6% of active US human trafficking cases involved only children in 2018.
If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, call the number below
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