Sex+Trafficking

Sex Trafficking
A modern day form of slavery that incorporates women and sometimes men being sold for money to others for sex.

Facts
 * most people are controlled by an “employer”
 * unable to move and are usually constrained
 * dehumanized
 * January 11th is the National Day for Human Trafficking Awareness
 * Eastern Europe and Africa are two of the fastest growing regions of human trafficking and modern day slavery in the world.

 Statistics-
 * 12.3 million to 27 million people are slaves for bonded labor, child labor, sex, or any other involuntary acts.
 * thousands of young girls are abducted or lured from their normal lives and forced to become sex slaves
 * 800,000 people are trafficked across the international borders every year.
 * 1 million children are exploited by the global commercial sex trade every year.
 * fifty percent of transnational victims are children.
 * one of the many reasons women become sex slaves involves drugs and money.
 * 70 percent of female victims are trafficked into the commercial sex industry which means 30 percent are victims of forced labor.

====**Case Studies:** ====
 * ====Officials estimate that 200,000 plus women and girls are smuggled out of Central and Eastern Europe each year. Almost half are transported to Western Europe and roughly a quarter end up in the U.S. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rapid rise of sex slave trade is because of the fall of the Soviet Union. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are 3 traffic networks in Europe the large scale, medium scale, and small scale network. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The large scale <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is based on a structure of international contacts at different political and economic levels in the countries of specific places. These use many different recruiting methods. This network often uses transit countries. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The medium scale is specifically different because it does not sell women to other groups. It keeps the women under its control and prostitutes them in their own clubs and whorehouses. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The small scale works approximately as follows: a club owner in a destination country needs some new women for his club. Through contacts with people in the prostitution business abroad, he places an order. Contacts recruit the women, accompany them to the destination and deliver her to him. ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> At least 500,000 women are trafficked into western Europe per year. ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The average age range for trafficking is 15-25. ==== ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A common method for trafficking is using a woman’s child as black mail for them to agree. ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> South Africa: ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Third largest source of profits next to drugs and guns ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Children from Eastern Europe, China, and Thailand are brought to South Africa and sold ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People believe that sex trafficking may become an interest of tourism in Africa no ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sex Trafficking in India ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The extreme HIV and AIDS epidemic is directly related to the sex trade. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">70% increase in HIV in men ====

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Philippines:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">150,000 Filipino women have been trafficked into Japan.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40,000 Filipino children were in child prostitution.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Philippine women are exposed to trafficking because of the Asian economic crisis.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">150 Filipinos were sold into prostitution to night club operators in African countries, particularly Nigeria.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1991, Filipinos were being sold in Japan at $2,400 to $18,000 each.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1996, 492 of 3,776 reported cases of child abuse involved pornography, prostitution, pedophilia and trafficking.