The unlawful act of transporting or coercing people in order to benefit from their work or service, typically in the form of forced labour or sexual exploitation. Purpose: The Purpose of this webinar is to bring awareness about Human Trafficking.

2. what is human trafficking?
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring 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 of 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.”

3. TYPE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
domestic servitude
 agricultural work
 manufacturing
 janitorial services
 hotel services
 construction
 health and elder care
 hair and nail salons
 prostitution
 strip club dancing

4. The Needs of Survivors of Human
Trafficking
 Survivors of human trafficking are forced, tricked or
misled into modern-day slavery. If they are able to
escape a shrouded abduction and hidden enslavement,
they have specific needs that are unique to their
situation.
 Survivors may have experienced profound trauma, lack
linguistic skills in the country of their escape, and
struggle with basic functioning after trafficking.

5. Signs of HumanTrafficking
Show signs that their movement is controlled
Have false identity or travel documents
Not know their home or work address
Have no access to their earnings
Be unable to negotiate working conditions
Work excessively long hours over long periods
Have limited or no social interaction
Have limited contact with their families or with people outside of
their immediate environment
Think that they are bonded by debt

8. Examples of Human Trafficking
Forced Labor: A family gives up a child to an adoption agent in
Nepal because they cannot afford to care for him.
Sex Trafficking: Two women from Korea are brought into San
Francisco under the pretense that they will receive jobs as
hostesses or waitresses. When they arrive, they are held captive
and forced into prostitution, while their captor controls the money
they receive.
Debt Bondage: A young woman from Russia has amassed grave
credit card debt and is desperate to pay it off.
Child Sex Trafficking: A 15-year-old boy runs away from his
home in San Francisco to Oakland, where he lives on the street.

9. Human trafficking in numbers
51% of identified victims of trafficking are women, 28%
children and 21% men
72% people exploited in the sex industry are women
63% of identified traffickers were men and 37% women
43% of victims are trafficked domestically within
national borders

10. How do people get entangled in
trafficking?
People trapped by traffickers are mostly trying to escape poverty or
discrimination, improve their lives and support their families.
Vulnerable people are often forced to take unimaginable risks to try
and escape poverty or persecution, accepting precarious job offers
and making hazardous migration decisions, often borrowing money
from their traffickers in advance.

11. WAYS TO HELP PREVENT HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
 Indicators of human trafficking
 National Human Trafficking Hotline
 Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
 Volunteer and support anti-trafficking efforts in your community
 Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal elected officials
 Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to an anti-trafficking
organization
 Encourage your local schools or school district to include human
trafficking in their curricula and to develop protocols
 Human Resources team to urge implementation of trauma-informed
business practices
 Learn how human traffickers often target and recruit youth
 Learn how to recognize traffickers’ recruitment tactics

13. THANK YOU