• WHAT is human trafficking?
• WHO suffers?
• WHO perpetrates?
• HOW are individuals victimized?
• WHAT are the recent statistics on
the issue?
• WHY does the problem exist and
persist?
• WHAT do Scripture and Catholic
Teaching say?
• WHAT values fuel illegal trafficking?
• HOW can we help eliminate it?
• WHAT progress has Canada made?

Human trafficking is defined as
the recruitment, transport,
harbouring or receipt of persons,
by means of the threat or use of
force or other forms of coercion, of
abduction, of fraud, of deception,
of the abuse of power or of a
position of vulnerability, or the
giving or receiving of payments or
benefits to achieve the consent of
a person having control over
another person, for the purpose of
exploitation.”
- UNESCAP, 2009, pg. 1

Two Main Forms of Exploitation Resulting from
Human Trafficking
• Forced Labour or
Sexual Exploitation
•
Services
- Prostitution - Domestic servants
- Unpaid or
- Exotic Dancers
underpaid work
- Farm work
- Escorts
- Factory work
- Bidding on - Street peddling
Individuals as and begging
- Child workers
‘Prizes’
- Adoption
- Child Soldiers
- Mail-order Brides

Refugees and Those living
displaced persons in poverty
due to war, natural
disasters, etc. The
Tourists socially
excluded
All persons,
Runaways
but most The
prominently: uneducated
and naive
women and
children
Primary Vs. Secondary
Primary: Individuals suffering through direct involvement.
Secondary: Friends, families, schools, churches, communities.