3. What is it?
• Buying/Selling of persons
• forced to perform sexual
acts against their will
– Other forms of
trafficking:
• Labour
• i.e. sweatshops,
construction
4. What is it?
“Sex-Trafficking is the recruiting &
transportation persons, for sexual
exploitation
through the use of force, coercion,
deception or threats against the person
sexual exploitation → forced prostitution
5. The Problem Today
Sex-Trafficking
• 80%+ women, 50% minors
• The average age of entry is 12-14
– Some research says 18-19
• ~ 27 million slaves
• Compared to Trans-
Atlantic
• 58% - sex slavery
• 36% - forced labour
6. The Problem Today
• Human-trafficking = 2nd
largest criminal
industry
• Fastest growing (USHHS)
• $30B industry
7. Where does this happen?
Domestic
- July 2014 – KW
area
- Forced women
to be escorts
Global
- South-East Asia
- Eastern Europe
- North America
17. Trapped
• Raped
• Beaten
• Drugged
• “Brainwashed”
– Traffickers specifically abuse them to diminish
their self-esteem/self-w0rth
18. Loss of Identity
• Tattoo/branding
– Pimp will tattoo their
name or symbol on
victim
• Documentation taken
– Pimp/trafficker holds
their passport,
identification
• Constantly moved around
– Across cities & borders
22. Why don’t they just leave?
• Raped, beaten, threatened, drugged, threatened
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Self-esteem/self-worth diminished
• Nowhere else to go (if moved to different country,
where do they go for help?)
• Documentation taken/destroyed
• Expected to earn $ for family
• Love? Attention?
23. What is being done?
NGOs
• Rescue operations
• Victim recovery
• Prosecute traffickers
• Legislation
– Ex: Nordic Model
– Canada’s Bill C-36
• $20 million to help victims leave (if
they want to)
– stop imprisoning prostitutes / trafficking
victims
– Target buyers of sex & pimps
24. IJM
• Holistic
• Rescue, victim recovery, skills-
training
Work with:
• Social workers
• Law enforcement
• Lawyers
• Trauma recovery
25. Success
• 2,266 children, women and men set free from forced
labour in India.
• 239 girls and young women were rescued from sex
trafficking in India, Cambodia and the Philippines.
• 43 innocent men and women were set free from prison in
Kenya.
• 153 criminals were convicted.