information on human trafficking in Hawaii

1. Human trafficking In
Hawaii

2. •SEX TRAFFICING
•Oahu Farms trafficing
•Commercial fishing industry

3. SEX TRAFFICKING

4. •There are about 150 brothels on Oahu
alone that we know about
•Over 8,000 cases were reported to human
trafficking last year

5. •Hawaii is the only state without law’s that protects
victims of sex trafficking from being prosecuted.
Hawaii is also the last state to specifically ban sex
trafficking.
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6. Human Trafficking on Oahu’s Farms
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7. • Some 1,000 workers from Laos were
trafficked to Oahu via a B-2 visitor visa scam
over the last decade, forced to work off their
debt to traffickers — as much as $25,000
each, advocates said
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8. • Another farm labor case was settled in June when the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission obtained a multimillion dollar
settlement for 500 laborers brought to Hawaii from Thailand over
four years beginning in 2003 by the Beverly Hills-based farm labor
contractor, Global Horizons, Inc.
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9. Commercial fishing industry
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10. • Commercial fishing industry Smuggles aliens
• into Hawaii for around $10,000 a person,
and then forced to live in unsanitary
conditions on fishing vessels docked at
Honolulu piers where they are paid as little
as $300 a month for full-time commercial
fishing work
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11. • there is little oversight of
commercial fishermen and
their vessels, including no
minimum wage
requirement and no agency
regularly ensuring sanitary
and safe living conditions or
verifying workers are not
trafficking victims.
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12. • http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/brief/understanding-
human-trafficking-hawaiian-islands
• http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/01/paradise-lost-
sex-trafficking-hawaii-160120111423579.html
• http://www.hawaiireporter.com/rise-in-human-trafficking-impacts-
hawaii/
• http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34392745/report-shows-
slight-rise-in-hawaii-human-trafficking-cases