Human trafficking; the crime

against humanity that is modern

day slavery.
Source: Library of Congress
 Ownership denied , use terms “Slave
Holders”
 Low purchase cost, high supply of
potentially enslaved people
 Short-term relationship between enslaved
person and slave holder
 Ethnic differences not important
 Disposable people, not maintained
 HIGH PROFITS

Adapted from Bales

Smuggling is “Importation of people into
the United States involving deliberate
evasion of immigration laws.”

Trafficking is when those people are then

exploited using “through the use of force,
fraud or coercion.”

Adapted from ICE website

27 Million

Anti-slavery.org,
50% – Percent of transnational victims who
are children.
80% – Percent of transnational victims who
are women and girls.
Any marginalized, displaced, impoverished,
or uneducated populace is especially
vulnerable.

U.S. Department of Justice, Report to Congress from Attorney General John

Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in
Fiscal Year 2003: 2004 .
U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report: 2007.
 Trafficking is a global problem affecting
every continent and most countries. It
occurs within and across national borders
and ranks as one of the most lucrative
forms of international crime.

Anti-slavery.org
32 billion – Total yearly profits generated by
the human trafficking industry.

 $15.5 billion is made in industrialized

countries.
 $9.7 billion in Asia.
 $13,000 per year generated on average by
each “forced laborer.” This number can be
as high as $67,200 per victim per year.

ILO, A global alliance against forced labor:

2005.
Modern day slaves
are “compelled to work,
through force or fraud,
for no pay beyond
subsistence.”

Skinner
"No one shall be
held in slavery or
servitude; slavery
and the slave
trade shall be
prohibited in all
their forms."
Article 4,
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights Photograph copyright Anti-Slavery
International
Chattel Slavery
Sex Slavery
Debt Bondage
Servile Marriage
Forced Labor
Child Soldiers
Forcible Organ Harvesting
Women laborers scrape for salt on the floor of an ancient lake in
the remote Sahara Desert in Tichit, Mauritania, east of
Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, Nov. 20, 2000.
(Clement Ntaye/Associated
Child working at brick kiln.
Gold diggers in
Brazil.
Photo copyright 1998 Sabastiao
Ruby Jessop, 14 year old Child Bride. Ran away from
forced marriage, tricked into returning, hasn't been
seen unescorted since
Women in cage brothel.
Indiadaily.org
Photo credit http://homepages.wmich.edu/~acareywe/images/childsoldiers.jpg
universe-review.ca/F10-
multicell.htm
 Is this slavery?
 Is it wrong?
 What are you going to do about it?
“Defeating human trafficking is a great
moral calling of our time.”
-Condoleezza Rice
“Our lives begin to end, the day we become
silent about the things that matters.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
 www.notforsalecampaign.org
 www.polarisproject.org
 www.freetheslaves.net
 www.womenagainstslavery.org