Captive Daughters exists to mobilize the global will to end the sex trafficking of women and children through public education and creative media.

Captive Daughters is the first anti-trafficking group established in California. We focus solely on ending the sexual bondage of women and children. The organization was inspired by Sandra Hunnicutt's, the founding director's, stay in Nepal, where she learned firsthand about sex trafficking. Upon returning to the United States in 1995 she began researching trafficking and discovered a fragile network of groups struggling to educate the public on trafficking both here and abroad. In an effort to strengthen that movement, she and a committed group of individuals established Captive Daughters as a non-profit organization in 1997.

 The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of 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 of 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.

An estimated 2 million women and children are held in sexual servitude throughout the world, and between 800,000 and 900,000 are trafficked across international borders for the purposes of sexual exploitation each year. These women and children make up the "supply" side of sex trafficking. This supply has been created to meet a demand…

SUPPLY DEMAND

*Devaluation of the girl child and discriminatory practices 

*Perceived responsibility of women and children to support families 

*Lack of educational, employment and vocational opportunities 

*Fragmentation of families: death of parent/s, husband, increases homeless women and children 

*Economic conditions, especially rural poverty, fueled by economic development policies and the erosion of agricultural sectors 

*Rural to urban migration and the growth of urban industrial centers 

*Move from subsistence to cash based economy and increased consumerism 

*Lack of laws and law enforcement 

*Criminal networks who organize the sex industry and recruit the children 

*Law enforcement /governmental complicity in the sex trade 

*Demands of foreign sex industries creating international trade in girls and women 

*Fear of AIDS, leading customers to demand younger girls 

*Early marriage and child marriage 

*Traditional and cultural practices, including the demand for virgins, the cultural practice of men patronizing prostitutes, inter-generational patterns of girls entering prostitution 

*Employers using the debt-bond (slavery) system, forced labor and child labor 

*Demand of sex tourists, pedophiles and the migrant labor force 

*International promotion of the sex industry through information technology

Through a wider array of educational methods this organization strives to widen the bredth of the locally based organizations that hold the same values.

This organization is located in California, Nepal, and Albania just to name a few.

Commitment is something that the board of directors is required to uphold if their goal is going to be achieved.

From left: Yosh Yamanaka (Vice President); Sandra Hunnicutt (Secretary); Hanna Zylberberg (Treasurer); Stephen Long (President/Chair)

Clients for this type of organization are anyone that is willing to learn about Captive Daughters and is willing to get involved.

Educate Yourself….

Website: http://www.captivedaughters.org

Email:mail@captivedaughters.org

Address:Captive Daughters:P.O. Box 34682Los Angeles, CA 90034

Take Action At Home Talk to Local State, and National Reps.

Provide speakers/speaking programs on the issue

Form your own anti-trafficking group to give voice to this issue in your area

Appear on local media Educate your network of friends and

colleagues Travel wisely and urge your friends

to do so Report suspected trafficking by

calling: (888) 373-7888

Interview local officials about what your city is doing on trafficking

Provide your city officials with informational materials on the subject

Ask your local, state and national representatives what they are doing on the issue

Support your State Representives/Senators in passing anti-trafficking legistlation for your State based on this Model Law from the U.S. Dept. of Justice (opens as a PDF)

Write officials of other countries about your concerns for trafficked women and children

The need for an organization like this is greater then most of us really comprehend, we would be able to help woman and children that are being forced into slavery. This would help the governments focus on black market issues that concern the community rather then having to create

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Captive Daughters working on making the difference in the world by educating the community on the negative effects of brought on by human trafficking.

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