DID YOU KNOW?
1) The average global cost of a slave is $90
2) Approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation
4) In the U.S., the average age a teen enters the sex trade is 12-14 years old
3) Most Human Trafficking in the U.S. occurs in New York, California, and Florida.
5) Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry
6) There are an estimated 21 million people in forced or coerced human trafficking worldwide
7) In 2007, 32% of trafficked people were forced labor migrants
8) Trafficking woman is decreasing steadily from a 74% in 2004 to 49% in 2011, but unfortunately it is matched with a
steady increase in trafficked girls from 10% up to 21% in 2011.
9) Sex trafficking is by far the most prevalent forms of human trafficking in the U.S.
10) India has the largest number of individuals in human trafficking globally.
11) In 2014, The National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received human trafficking cases from all 50 states in the U.S.
12) As of 2012, there is an average one one person trafficked per hour.
Check out the links for more
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In many cases, victims are branded by their "Owner". "It lets other pimps know that this is their property." Victims are tatted many different things to show their belonging. "An old-fashioned looking moneybag tattooed on the arm. "F--- You, Pay Me" tattooed on a girl's neck. Large initials tattooed on a girl's face. The initials "ATM" tattooed near a girl's crotch. A trafficker's name tattooed across a girl's thighs. A bar code tattooed across a girl's wrist, like an item in a grocery store. The practice is not new. It used to be done by slave owners using brands on slaves to show ownership. Now it's back in a different form, but for the same horrible purpose.." Click here to read on.