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What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking is a crime that involves exploiting a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.

In 2000, for the first time, the United States specifically identified human trafficking as a crime and put into law The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. This act defines Human Trafficking as:

• Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
• 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. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)). (United States. Department of Justice. Human Trafficking. Retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking)

Human Trafficking Statistics

• Florida Hotline: 2018 National Human Trafficking Hotline Statistics
• Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.
• Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%.
• In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the US were sex trafficking cases involving only children.
• In 2018, Florida was the third most reported state of human trafficking cases to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
  • https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-trafficking#fn4

Human Trafficking Videos

• Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Young Lives, Insane Profit / Yolanda Schlabach/ TEDxWilmington link  https://youtu.be/LNq2WS-QFcc
• REALWOMEN/REALSTORIES Colorado Child Trafficking Survivor https://youtu.be/JW3qnAMkUgU

National Anti-Human Trafficking organization websites

• National Human Trafficking Hotline
  • https://humantraffickinghotline.org/
• Polaris Project
  • https://polarisproject.org/
• Freedom Network USA
  • https://freedomnetworkusa.org/
• Love146
  • https://love146.org/
• National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance
  • https://www.shelteredalliance.org/
• Culture Reformed
  • https://www.culturereframed.org/

Florida Anti-Human Trafficking and Support Services Organizations

• Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking
  • https://www.stophumantrafficking.org/
• Her Song
  • https://www.hersongjax.org/
• Lavished Ministries
  • https://www.lavishedministries.com/
• Called 2 Rescue
  • https://www.called2rescue.com/

Human Trafficking Survivor Books

• Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran
• Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children by Linda Smith
• The Truth Behind The Fantasy Of Porn: The Greatest Illusion On Earth by Shelly Lubben
• Not For Sale by David Batstone
• Fallen: Out Of The Sex Industry & Into The Arms Of The Savior by Annie Lobert

Dig Deeper

• Relevant Professional Journal Articles on Human Trafficking
  • Understanding Human Trafficking in America
  • Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States

Printable Materials

• Human Trafficking Power and Control Wheel