What Can We Do If We or Someone We Know isAffected?

Human Trafficking

• ACTION Recruitment, Promotion, or Accomodation

• METHOD By Threatening or the use of Violence,

Fraud, Deception, Abuse of Power or

Exploitation

• GOAL Exploitation

What is Human Trafficking?

Forms of Exploitation

Forced Prostitution

Forced Marriage

Labor Exploitation

Selling of Organs

Illegal Adoption

Theft, Burglary, & Pick-Pocketing (Among Children)

Recruitment Methods

False promise of a job

The ‚Loverboy’ Method

Use of force & violence or the threatof violence

Open recruitment intoprostitution withfalse/limited information on conditions

Forms of Abuse

• Isolation and constant monitoring

• Required to work topay off a debt

• Threateninginfluence overresidency status byclaiming goodconnections to thepolice

• Rape, psychological, physical abuse

• Massive psychologicalcoercion

• Threatening personor their family

• Administeringalcohol, medications and drugs

Signs of Human Trafficking

The Affected

• Appears to be underthe control of anotherperson, often timesan older ‚friend‘

• Unable to speak foroneself

• Gives seeminglyinstructed responses

• Does not havepersonal documentation orhas falsedocumentation

• Is unpaid orunderpaid

• Has a high (fictitious) debt, that they must work off

• Suddenly receivesexpensive gifts(such as, brandnamed clothes orexpensive cellphones)

• Has large memory gaps and no space-time awareness

• Has no will tointegrate

• Appears insecure, frightened, apathetic or absent

• Shows bruising orsigns physicalabuse

• Shows signs of drugand alcohol abuse

Where to go for help?

Social Workers

Organizations listed on the GIPST-Flyers