Human Trafficking

Simply put: Human trafficking is the exploitation of vulnerability for-profit - nationally or internationally.

Officially: Trafficking in Persons is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, utilizing the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or 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 exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude, or the removal of organs.
 

Global Overview

Sexual exploitation is the most common form of human trafficking (79%) and the most frequently reported, followed by forced labor (18%).

Victims of sexual exploitation are predominantly women (66%) and girls (13%), followed by men (12%) and boys (9%).

Children make 22% of all trafficking victims. However, in some parts of Africa and the Mekong region, children are the majority (up to 100% in parts of West Africa).

The Americas are prominent, both as the origin and destination of victims in human trafficking.

Europe is the destination for victims from the widest range of origins.

Victims from Asia are trafficked to the widest range of destinations.