Human Trafficking Cheat Sheet | Polaris Project
HUMAN TRAFFICKING CHEAT SHEET
Overview
• Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery.
• Human trafficking is prevalent in many countries around the world.
Different countries may be primarily
sites of...
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Human Trafficking Cheat Sheet | Polaris Project
HUMAN TRAFFICKING CHEAT SHEET
Overview
• Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery.
• Human trafficking is prevalent in many countries around the world.
Different countries may be primarily
sites of origin, transit, destination, and/or internal trafficking.
• Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all fifty states of the United States (Free the Slaves).
• Human trafficking is a market-based economy that exists on principles of supply and demand.
It thrives
due to conditions which allow for high profits to be generated at low risk.
What is Human Trafficking?
• As defined in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the legal definition of “severe forms of
trafficking in persons” is:
a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, pro
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