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Human TraffickingHuman trafficking is happening all over the world. Worldwide, an estimated one to two million people are trafficked every year, 50,000 to 100,000 of which are women and children that are brought to the United States. Accurate data in this area is difficult to obtain due to under-reporting and the invisibility of people in this situation. The majority of these individuals are tricked, coerced, sold or forced into situations of slavery-like economic exploitation from which there is no escape. Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry and is considered to be one of the largest arenas of organized crime, behind drugs and weapons sales. The largest number of human trafficking victims come from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. People who are trafficked are most commonly recruited for the sex industry, which includes prostitution, pornography, sex tourism, servile marriage and "mail-order" brides; and the labor industry which includes sweatshop factories, agricultural work, domestic servitude, and debt bondage. Traffickers often capitalize on the unequal status of women and girls, relying on stereotypes of women as property, commodities, servants, and sexual objects. Trafficking differs from the smuggling of individuals across a border in that trafficking involves long-term profit through the continued exploitation of the persons trafficked. |
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