2. Depiction of Human
Trafficking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwAhti93QYU
3. History of Slavery
Exodus: Moses frees the Israelites from hundreds of
years of slavery under the rule of the Egyptian
Pharaoh
1619: The colony of Jamestown is first introduced to
slavery
American Civil War: Fought to free the southern
African Americans from slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
6. Background Information
Definition: Human trafficking is a form of modern day
slavery where people make profit from the control and
exploitation of others
As defined under U.S. federal law, victims of human
trafficking include children involved in the sex trade,
adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into
commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different
forms of "labor or services," such as domestic workers
held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against
their will.
7. Polaris Project
Mission: Polaris Project is committed to combating
human trafficking and modern-day slavery, and to
strengthening the anti-trafficking movement through a
comprehensive approach.
8. Polaris Project Timeline
of Success
2002-Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman co-found Polaris Project on February
14th, and launch one of the nation’s first grassroots initiatives against human
trafficking.
2004- Polaris Project opens its Tokyo office, supported through a grant from the
U.S. Department of State, to address human trafficking and the commercial
sexual exploitation of children in Japan.
2006-Polaris Project opens one of the only transitional housing programs for
trafficking survivors in the U.S, providing a safe space for survivors to heal and
rebuild their lives.
2009- Polaris Project helps to secure a 25% increase in Department of Justice
funding for services for human trafficking survivors.
2011- After Polaris Project forwards tips from the human trafficking hotline to the
appropriate authorities, law enforcement opens at least 123 new investigations.
9. Victims
Victims can be men or women, children or adults, and of all
ages
More vulnerable people: undocumented migrants; runaway
and homeless youth; and oppressed, marginalized, and/or
impoverished groups and individuals.
Human traffickers typically prey on individuals who are
vulnerable in some way. Some examples of high risk
populations include undocumented migrants, runaways and
at-risk youth, and oppressed or marginalized groups
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10. Living Conditions: The
Individual
• Is not free to leave or come and go as he/she wishes
• Is under 18 and is providing commercial sex acts
• Is in the commercial sex industry and has a pimp / manager
• Is unpaid, paid very little, or paid only through tips
• Works excessively long and/or unusual hours
• Is not allowed breaks or suffers under unusual restrictions at work
• Owes a large debt and is unable to pay it off
• Was recruited through false promises concerning the nature and conditions of his/her work
• High security measures exist in the work and/or living locations (e.g. opaque windows, boarded up
windows, bars on windows, barbed wire, security cameras, etc.)
11. Where is Sex Trafficking
most Common?
Residential Brothels
Strip Clubs
Escort Services
Hostess Clubs
Run down parts of town (Red Lights Districts)
12. Types of Human
Trafficking
Pimping
Pimps sell women and girls in the commercial sex
industry by using numerous methods to gain control
over their bodies and minds.
They use force, fraud, or coercion to control the
behavior of their victims
Drugs are also used as a manipulative method to exert
control
13. Pimping
17 year old girl
lured into Pimping in
pimping San Diego
because she
needs the
money
14. Types of Human
Trafficking Continued
Labor
Traffickers often threaten foreign national workers with
arrest and deportation, even workers who have the
legal right to work in the United States.
Usually no or little pay
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
“The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or
obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the
use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of
subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt
bondage or slavery.”
16. Types of Human
Trafficking Continued
Organ Trafficking
Organ trade is the trade involving inner organs
(heart, liver, kidneys etc.) of a human for transplantation.
A kidney from a living donor will keep you alive twice as long as
one taken from a cadaver
Organization estimates that one fifth of the 70,000 kidneys
transplanted worldwide every year come from the black market.
Poverty is seen in all countries with a large black market for
organs
The Human Tissue Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the
United Kingdom which consolidated the authority to regulate the
removal, storage, and use and disposal of human
bodies, organs and tissue
2007 was first conviction
18. Trafficking in the US
The internet has become the new marketplace for trafficking children
The UN reports that the US is one of the top three destination
countries to which people are trafficked
As many as 100,000 children are forcefully engaged in prostitution
or pornography each year
Victims have been found in rural as well as urban areas across the
US
US State Department estimates that around 17,500 men, women,
and children are trafficked into the US annually
The actual number of people currently in trafficking situations in the US
is much larger, possibly in the hundreds of thousands
19. International Trafficking
42.5 Billion Dollar industry
Estimated 161 Countries Worldwide
12.3 Million Men, woman, and children total have been trafficked
Both within and across international borders
Human Trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry, and the
third most profitable
The International Labor Organization estimates that human trafficking
accounts for $32 billion in illicit profits
Each year, 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children, are trafficked
across international borders
20. CST Connection
“In fact, the roots of human rights are to be found in the dignity that belongs to each human being.
This dignity, inherent in human life and equal in every person, is perceived and understood first of all
by reason.” (153 CCC pg. 67)
Human trafficking exploits the rights and dignity that is, according to Catholic Social
Teaching, supposed to be respected among all people.
Option for the poor and vulnerable: These are the groups of people most susceptible to human
trafficking and as Catholics we have the duty to protect them from this economically sinful practice
Care for God’s creation: The people affected by human trafficking are not being cared for by society.
Laws and organizations are needed to care for victims and prevent future exploitations to take place
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of the Workers: The rights of the people induced in human
trafficking are treated are treated as products and obtain limited rights as human beings. The
conditions these people are subjected to are unsafe, dangerous, and unfair
Thrival Rights: human trafficking prevents people from those things necessary to fully realize their
God-given dignity. They are denied education and a means to support themselves. Victims are
physcholoically and physically sedated by the work they are forced into
21. What Can You Do?
Support the Polaris organization in its fight against human
segregation by signing up on their website
Sign up for the Grassroots Network to receive regular
updates and action alerts
Tell your family and friends to raise awareness
Join the End Human Trafficking Facebook page
Urge your legislators to enact stricter human trafficking
laws
22. Human Trafficking
Often times, people Human Trafficking is
are left with no choice handcuffsm, preventing
the person to have
human dignity
