The Facts
- An estimated 27 million children, women and men are caught in the cycle of trafficking
- Every minute, two children are sold into slavery
- The average cost of a slave is $90
- The average age of entry into the sexual exploitation industry is 12 years old
- Approximately 80% of trafficking victims are women, and up to 50% are children
- Total yearly profits generated by human trafficking is $32 billion
Sources: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Justice, International Labour Organization
What is Human Trafficking?
The U.S. Department of State defines human trafficking, also referred to as trafficking in persons, as all criminal conduct connected to forced labor and sex trafficking and the conduct involved in reducing or holding someone in compelled service.
Any time a person is recruited, transported, transferred, harbored or received via threat, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception or abuse of power, and is then made to participate in prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor or involuntary servitude, they are considered a trafficking victim. Human trafficking is especially prevalent in poor communities. Because of their lack of opportunity, traffickers will prey upon these areas.
How We Respond
Emergency Aftercare
World Hope International offers a safe place for young survivors newly removed from sexual slavery in Cambodia and Sierra Leone to recover. Each receives physical, psychological and spiritual care as they heal.
Education
World Hope International helps individuals and communities identify the signs of human trafficking through awareness education.
World Hope International regularly accesses a variety of resources on human trafficking to insure optimal effectiveness for our organizational approach to this global issue.
Anti-Trafficking Country Info
Azerbaijan
• Education
Cambodia
• Education
• Emergency Aftercare
Sierra Leone
• Education
• Emergency Aftercare
