Human trafficking is defined as the coercion of individuals through force or deception for exploitation purposes, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Despite being illegal worldwide, approximately 30 million people live in modern slavery, which is highly profitable and often linked to issues like poverty and corruption. Solutions to combat trafficking include supporting advocacy groups, promoting education, and raising awareness about the issue.

1. Human Trafficking A Global Problem

2. What is human trafficking? Technical definition: Human trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion , of abduction, of fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation . Exploitation includes prostitution of others, forced labor, slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. Source: UN Protocol

3. What does trafficking look like? Where does it happen?

4. From www.antislavery.org India - Bonded labor - or debt bondage - is probably the least known form of slavery today, and yet it is the most widely used method of enslaving people. A person becomes a bonded laborer when their labor is demanded as a means of repayment for a loan. The person is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, often for seven days a week. The value of their work is invariably greater than the original sum of money borrowed.

5. How big is the problem? source: Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

6. From 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report, US State Dept Thousands of African and Asian migrant workers wait in line for food at a refugee camp, having fled from the violence in Libya. Fleeing workers reported document confiscation and debt bondage.

7. How much money is involved? Slavery is lucrative – especially sex! Second only to drug trafficking in terms of global criminal enterprises. source: Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

8. From 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report, US State Dept Left - A child harvests coffee beans in Honduras. Right - A young boy leads al-Shabaab fighters as they conduct a military exercise in Mogadishu, Somalia. The country’s continuous violence appears to have increased recruiting efforts – by all parties in conflict – of minors who can easily be indoctrinated.

9. Is trafficking the same as slavery? Pretty much, yes. Slavery is a system under which people are forced to work without pay under threat of violence and unable to walk away. (Slavery and trafficking are different than smuggling - people consent to being smuggled but not to being enslaved.)

10. From 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report, US State Dept A girl carries her sister as she breaks rocks into smaller pieces to be sold for construction purposes in Juba, South Sudan.

11. Isn’t slavery illegal? Yes . Slavery is outlawed in every country yet today there are about 30 million slaves in the world Slavery was abolished by the British in 1853 and in the United States in 1863. The difference between slavery today and slavery then is that slaves are cheap and disposable. (average cost of a slave today is $90 but equivalent of $40,000 in 1850 in the US.)

12. From 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report, US State Dept About 250 runaway housemaids who escaped abuse by their Kuwaiti sponsors lived in a makeshift shelter inside the Philippines embassy in Kuwait City, awaiting a chance to go home.

13. Why can’t slaves escape? Debt Shame Threat of violence/harm Chains Addiction Corruption

14. From The Sold Project DVD Saa, a Bangkok sex worker.

15. Why do we still have slavery? Population Globalization and poverty Corruption Kevin Bales, TED Talk

16. What do we do about it? Support the groups that are working against human trafficking like CBF, Free the Slaves, and Not for Sale. Eliminate poverty education slave proofing. Buy Fair Trade. ???

17. Sex and Cinco de Mayo On May 4, 2011, Ryan and Cindy Clark taught a course on cooking Mexican food with ladies involved with the Kalinga-Crossover, a ministry to sex workers in Baguio. Many of the girls who work in "Massage Parlors" are not allowed to go out on their own, to attend classes or Bible study. This is a key signal that they are not in Baguio on their own free will and that they've been trafficked.

18. Cindy Ring Ruble CBF Field Personnel in Malaysia

19. Current areas of focus of Cindy & Eddy Ruble’s work in Indonesia and Malaysia: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Human Trafficking Awareness Preventing Violence Against Women Promoting Gender Equality Education Earthquake Relief Peacemaking/Interfaith Action

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22. Questions?