HUMAN TRAFFICKING

What is Human Trafficking?

• the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons by means of force, fraud or coercion

WHO IS EFFECTED?

• every country in the world is affected by trafficking
• Sex trafficking and labor trafficking
• Foreign victims
• Children

STATISTICS

• 20.9 million victims of trafficking worldwide
• 11.8 million are subjected to forms of modern slavery
• 1.5 million victims in United States, Canada and developed countries of the EU
• Girls make up 55 percent of forced labor victims and 98% of sex trafficking victims.

Why is Human Trafficking So Prevalent?

• lack of human trafficking laws
• false promises of good jobs, education, economic security or love
• factories, restaurants, construction work, agricultural fields, hotels, spas, nail salons, private residences

Catholic Social Teaching and Human Trafficking

• for­bids acts or enterprises that, for any reason, lead to the enslavement of human beings – to their being bought, sold, and exchanged like merchandise, in disregard for their personal dignity."

USCCB'S STANCE

• Human trafficking is a horrific crime against basic human dignity

LEGISLATION

• FORTE Act
• foreign labor recruiters must register with the U.S. government

LEGISLATION

• Global Supply Chain Transparency Bill
• similar bill sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney in 2011
• Informing consumers about conditions of forced labor, slavery, and child labor within the company’s supply chain.

CHILD TRAFFICKING

• "Any time, anywhere"
• 1.2 million victims
• Children 12 and younger are included in the numbers exploited and abused by traffickers