How well do you understand the issue of Human Trafficking? Please take a look at this information. I further encourage you to attend a seminar, or workshop to learn more. Please contact a agency in your area and ask what seminars/workshops they offer.

1. HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
Slavery Still Exists
Community Training facilitated by Founder Tiffany Nicole Woods

2. WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
Human trafficking is defined as the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting,
providing, or obtaining a person for labor services or commercial sex acts
through force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of exploitation, involuntary
servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. It includes any commercial sex
involving a minor.
Human trafficking is not a crime of movement, but rather the dehumanizing
practice of holding another in compelled service using whatever means
necessary, whether physical or psychological. People who are subjected to
involuntary servitude are held against their will and forced to work, frequently
under the threat of violence to themselves or their families.

3. PIMP-CONTROLLED PROSTITUTION
Human trafficking victims are often found in street prostitution
where they are forced to provide commercial sexual services by a
controller or “pimp.” Pimps force adults and minors to sell
commercial sex on the streets by means of physical abuse, threats,
lies, manipulation, and false promises. Victims are often expected
to earn a nightly quota, ranging from $500 to $1000 or more, all
confiscated by the pimp. Victims are typically U.S. citizens,
including adults, girls, boys, and transgender youth. Although less
common, immigrants may also be victimized.

4. When it becomes Trafficking..
Street prostitution becomes
trafficking when a pimp uses force,
fraud and/or coercion to maintain
control over the person providing
commercial sexual services and
cause the person to engage in
commercial sex acts. An individual
engaged in street prostitution
under the age of 18 is considered a
victim of sex trafficking regardless
of the presence of force, fraud or
coercion. Common means of
control include:

5. Public Awareness & Education Seminar on Human Trafficking
in St. Louis, MO on National Freedom Day 2014
Please come out on Saturday February 1, 2014 . See more information below, or go to
www.word-recovery.org.