Maya was sold into sex trafficking by her father at age 11. She was told she would work in a factory but was instead taken to Mumbai and forced to have sex with 20 men per day. When she tried to escape, her trafficker raped and beat her. Now she lives in a cage. Sweden passed a law in 1999 criminalizing the purchase of sex which reduced prostitution and human trafficking by targeting demand rather than victimizing women. Eliminating demand is key to ending trafficking by making the risks too high.

1. Hi, my name is Maya
and when I was 11
years old I was sold to
a trafficker by my
father so he could feed
his other children

2. He was told I would
go to work in a
factory. Instead this
man took me to
Mumbai and told
me I had to make
sex with men.

3. When I refused his
men raped me and
did not feed me
until I agreed. I
made sex with
twenty men a day.

4. Once I tried to
escape, but the
police found me
and returned me to
this man. He put
chili paste on a
broomstick and
pushed it up inside
me and then broke
my ribs with his
fist.

5. Now I live in a
cage.

6. Sex Trafficking
According to US Govt.
estimates, 2.5 million
people are being
trafficked around the
world at any given
time.

7. Most are tricked by offers of jobs
abroad

8. Others are sold by fathers or
husbands.

9. Globalization and westernization of the world has
created extreme poverty and the resources necessary
to find viable slaves, and trafficking is ever on the rise.
But Why?

10. Because the business of trafficking for sexual
exploitation is highly profitable with little overhead.

11. The UN in conjunction with the US
have created systems to fight Sex
Trafficking, however they have
many obstacles.

12. Corrupt Police
Police are paid off with Bribes to look the
other way at boarder crossings, Brothels
and on the street.

13. Poor Judicial System
In some countries the Penalty for trafficking is only
6 months in Jail and a $40 fine

14. Little Research
Trying to interview girls in the sex trade puts them
at risk, making it unethical
Girls that have been rescued often do not wish to
speak out, or are not honest.

15. No Funding
Governments spend up to 100 times more
on fighting drug trafficking than human
trafficking.

16. Well Organized and Funded Crime rings
Albanian Mafia
Chinese Mafia
Italian Mafia

17. Experts agree that
the problem of
Trafficking should be
solved by looking at
the problem
Economically, attacki
ng either it’s chain of
supply or its high
demand.

18. How do we attack Human Trafficking
economically?
Supply Demand

19. Until we create
world peace or
solve the issue
of Global
Poverty we will
never be able to
attack the
Supply

20. So we must fight
demand!

21. Elasticity
The Demand of
Human
Trafficking is
highly elastic.
Which means as
the price goes
up, the demand
goes down

22. . In this case, price can also include
the price of getting caught!

23. In 1999 Sweden
passed legislation
that criminalized a
person who
obtains sexual
relation in
exchange for
money with both
heavy fines and
imprisonment.

24. This New Law
Criminalizes the Purchase Victimizes the Women

25. Instead of
criminalizing the
women, it helps
get them into
women’s shelters
and off the streets
or out of the
brothels.

26. Since 1999 they have seen a decrease
in prostitution and more
importantly, humans being trafficked
into Sweden

27. These clear and concrete
results prove that the only
way to eliminate trafficking is
to remove the demand by
making the penalties for
exploiting an individual for
sex so high that they are not
worth the risk. Therefore
eliminating a need for sex
slaves and human trafficking!