Human Trafficking…Issues and

Responses

Defined:…the recruitment, transport, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

27 Million.

80 % of trans-national victims are women and girls

71%…of women are trafficked into the commercial sex trade

Why?

1. Population Explosion

2.Vulnerable People – Poverty, Corruption, Instability, etc.

3. Existing Market

Supply

Demand

$34 Billion

Average cost of a human: $90

Profit per worker: $16,500- $67,000/yr.

Here’s what $90 will buy on Craigslist

N O W W H AT ?

Hope

27 Million and $34 Billion

=smallest % in History

OLEG!

Transition Home

change is a

PROCESS

Prevention Foster Care Transition Homes

Sustainability

Questions?