This document discusses the issue of human trafficking in Hawaii. It covers different types of human trafficking prevalent in Hawaii, including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and child trafficking. Labor trafficking often involves agricultural workers brought to Hawaii through visa scams and forced to work to pay off large debts to traffickers. Sex trafficking victims, including thousands of women and girls as young as 11, are recruited through various means and forced into prostitution. Child labor laws are also violated through child trafficking in Hawaii.

1. Human
Trafficking in
Hawaii
By Lauren Morgan

2. Human Trafficking is highly profitable for traffickers,
reaping an estimated $150 billion annually, taxpayers
and legitimate businesses suffer as a result.

4. Topics
• Labor Trafficking
• Sex Trafficking
• Child Trafficking

5. Labor Trafficking

6. The International Labor Organization says agricultural
workers are among the most vulnerable for human
trafficking.

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.”
--Malia Zimmerman

8. Sex Trafficking

9. “It’s hard to quantify but, by our estimates, the number
of females trafficked for sex in Hawaii each year is
most likely in the thousands,” says Kathryn Xian, the
founder and head of Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery.

10. Once they are captured by traffickers, the victims are
beaten, raped and forced to work as prostitutes. The
traffickers may threaten them that their families will be
killed if they try to run away.

11. Child Trafficking

12. Sex Trafficking: “In Hawaii, girls as young as 11 years old
are recruited from schools, beaches and malls through a
sophisticated network of pimps and traffickers.”-Malia
Zimmerman

13. Hawaii Child Labor: Workers under the age of 18 are
considered minors for purposes of employment. Minors are
barred from hazardous occupations declared hazardous by
law or regulation.

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• http://www.blr.com/HR-
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• http://www.endslaverynow.org/learn/slavery-today/child-
labor

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