Human Trafficking
Hope In Motion: Episode 4 - Nepal Safehaven Clip - Human Trafficking
Why are people in poverty the biggest perpetrators and participants of human trafficking?
- Money
- Perpetrators
- Participants
Definition of Human Trafficking
From "Sexual Trafficking in the United States: A Domestic Problem With Transnational Dimensions" by David R. Hodge, "recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act."
- Selling body for money
- Forced marriage on young women
- Forced labor
- Forced harvesting of human organs
Different Forms of Human Trafficking
From "The Fight Against Human Trafficking" by Roy Ahn, et al.
- Commercial Sexual Exploitation
- Illegal Organ Transplantation
- Illegal Labor Exploitation
Involvement
- Runaway children
- Families give children up
- Perpetrators try to get children involved
Effects
- HIVs
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Abuse from trafficker
Getting Out of Human Trafficking
- Don't want to go against perpetrator
- Need life necessities
- Psychological trauma
Connecting to class
5.5 million out of 20.9 million involved in human trafficking are children. (People under the age of 18)
- Could get involved after college or high school