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Trafficking in human beings All age groups Sexual exploitation (66% of global revenue) Labour / servitude Organ removal Exponentially growing worldwide, internet, trafficking of children for online commercial sexual exploitation, videos and photos, torture and rape of children, including toddlers Methods Deception Kidnapping Coercion and/or force Violence and torture Forced to watch abuse of children Forced injection with drugs US Department of Homeland Security Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Annual revenue of US$150 billion (2014) Second largest criminal enterprise after drugs Particularly vulnerable Poverty Abusive family environment Displacement during violent conflict Living under corruption International (UN) Labour Organization (2022) 50 million humans One in every 150 people in the world Over 12 million are children Sexual exploitation 6.3 million people in situations of forced commercial sexual exploitation on any given day, (2021) This number includes 1.7 million children in commercial sexual exploitation, (ILO 2022) Some survivors report having been forced to engage in sexual intercourse with up to fifty perpetrators in a single day Children trafficked for sex tourism serve about 1,500 customers per year, more than half of those children are under the age of 12 Internet abuse, 2019 Nearly 70 million child sexual abuse files (videos/pictures), 78% of child abuse files involved children under the age of 12, 63% showed children under 8 At any given time, there are 750,000 to over 1 million predators online searching for these files Forced labour and servitude (2020) Over 20 million people Hazardous conditions, mines, fields, factories, homes, construction sites. Carry heavy loads, exposed to pesticides and other toxins Work excessive hours, severe weather conditions. Denigrating treatment, constant risk of violent abuse. Tens of thousands become ill and die. Organ and blood harvesting Numbers uncertain Reports of it are increasing across the world Medical and ritual purposes 2017, Daesh (ISIS) Organs from oppressed minorities and prisoners Governments and organised crime networks Human Trafficking in the U.S. and Europe Trafficking for sexual exploitation most common type 72% of detected survivors in North America “with the market forces of prostitution driving demand for human trafficking of women and girls“ “Studies find that up to 80% of samples of women and girls serving as prostitutes had been coerced or forced to engage in prostitution by pimps or traffickers.“ United States “accounts for nearly 50% of all IP addresses engaging in P2P file sharing of child pornography images“ The New York Times (2019) “ The images are horrific. Children, some just 3 or 4 years old, being sexually abused and in some cases tortured. Some followed by travel to Latin America and the Caribbean. Europe The majority of trafficking victims, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldowa, Ukraine, Nigeria Brought to Central and Western Europe for exploitation. A CALL FOR TARGETED ACTION We call for decisive, targeted measures to end human trafficking. These include but are not limited to the following: Public Awareness Legislation Law Enforcement Survivors Culture
