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• 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?
• HOW can we help eliminate it?
• WHAT progress has Canada made?
• WHO is already helping?

Human trafficking is defined as
a) sex trafficking in which a commercial
sex act is induced by force, fraud or
coercion, or in which the person
included to perform such an act has not
attained 18 years of age.
b) the recruitment, harbouring,
transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person
for labour or services, through the use of
force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose
of subjection to involuntary servitude,
peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
- Trafficking In Persons Report, 2008

Two Main Forms of Exploitation Resulting from
Human Trafficking
• Forced Labour or
Sexual Exploitation
•
Services
- Domestic servants
- Prostitution
- Unpaid or
- Exotic Dancers/ underpaid work
Entertainers - Farm work
- Construction work
- Escorts - Factory work
- Street peddling
- Mail-order Brides
and begging
- Child Brides - Child workers
- Adoption
- Explicit filming - Child soldiers
(pornography) - Forced organ removal

Those dealing
Refugees and with Those living
displaced persons discrimination in poverty
due to war, natural
disasters, etc. The
Tourists socially
excluded
Widowed, Addicts
divorced or
unmarried
women
Runaways
All persons, The
but most uneducated
Victims of abuse
prominently: and naive
women and
children Primary Vs. Secondary
Primary: Individuals suffering through direct involvement.
Secondary: Friends, families, schools, churches, communities.

Corrupt
Employment
officials
Organized
agents
gangs and
Established trafficking
crime groups
network agents
Impresarios
Drug Transporters & Taxi drivers
peddlers
Pedophiles Brothel/Bar
madams or
Weapon owners
smugglers
Service or
Entertainment
promoters
Salespersons/customers
of Black Market
Local recruiters

What risks are victims subject to, and what damage do
they suffer?
Risks For All Victims of Risks For Victims Of Sex
Trafficking: Trafficking:
• Low, withheld or no wages • Unwanted pregnancy
• Hazardous work environments • Unsafe abortions
• Malnutrition • Higher maternal mortality
• Lack of medical attention risk
• All forms of abuse and • Infertility
increased susceptibility to abuse • Cervical cancer
• Trauma (leading to the • HIV/AIDS/other STD’s
development of mental illness) • Severe physical injury
• Community ostracism
• Economic integration difficulty
• Ruined self image, concept of
self-worth and dignity

• Signs of abuse
• Unpaid or
underpaid
• Living with
employer
• Withheld
• Poor living
documents
conditions
• Submissive, fearful
• Language or
culture barriers
• Living at work • Never alone
• Displays
uncomfortable
or passive typical
• Matches profile of • Forbids private conversation
work mood
an addict

Needs of Survivor:
Rights of Survivor:
• Immediate Assistance
• Safety
• Income Assistance
• Interpretation
• Mental Health
• Legal
Assistance
• Legal status
Representation
• Privacy
• Medical Attention
• Civil Compensation
• Repatriation
• Case Management
• Immigration Relief

• Corruption in
government, law
• Interwoven in other forms of
enforcement.
organized crime, and is therefore
difficult to eliminate. • Values
• High profit,
• Supply/Demand
low risk. • Prone environments
due to war, poverty,
famine, political
instability etc.
• Lax and ineffective
government regulations, or • Difficulty
lack of regulations in tracking trafficked
altogether. persons and traffickers themselves.