What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking is a crime that generally requires 3 elements:
1. an act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or abduction of a person;
2. by means of the use or threat of violence, force, fraud, coercion, deception, abuse of power, or
debt bondage;
3. for the purpose of exploitation for:
- A Commercial Sex Act
- Involuntary Servitude
- Peonage
- Debt Bondage
- Slavery

How can I learn more about Trafficking?

Read Books:
• Disposable People, Kevin Bales• Understanding Global Slavery, Kevin Bales• Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery, edited by Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten• Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress, Melissa Farley• Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Youth Involved in Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking, Laura A. Barnitz• The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade, Victor Malerek• Human Traffic: Sex, Slaves & Immigration, Craig McGill• Children at War, P.W. Singer• Slavery: A World History, Milton Metzler

Watch Movies:
• Blood Diamond, illustrates how child soldiers are used in West African conflicts (2006)• Soldier Child, a documentary about child soldiers in Uganda (2005)• Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids (2005)• Fields of Mudan, a 23 minute film about child sex slavery in Asia (2004)• Human Trafficking, the 4-hour Lifetime miniseries on European women trafficked into the USA for prostitution (2005)• Amazing Grace, the inspiring true story of William Wilberforce who demanded abolition of the African slave trade in the UK in the 1800s (2007)• Modern-Day Slavery: Sierra Leone and Liberia, a 10 minute video by World Hope and World Relief? on trafficking and our programs in these countries • Sex Trafficking in Cambodia, a 23 minute World Hope video documenting the lives of victims in Cambodia (2003)

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