What is Human Trafficking?
The recruitment, harboring, transportation, providing, obtaining, or maintaining of a person through the use of force, fraud, or coercion to engage in forced labor or services or commercial sex acts, with the exception of sex trafficking of a minor where the criminal elements of force, fraud, or coercion need not be shown. -Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA)
What is Commercial Sexual Exploitation?
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value, or promise, thereof, to the child or another person(s). The child is treated as a commercial and sexual object. CSEC is a form of violence against children.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value, or promise, thereof, to the child or another person(s). The child is treated as a commercial and sexual object. CSEC is a form of violence against children.
Domestic Sex Trafficking and Exploitation Facts
- Worldwide an estimated 27,000,000 people are trafficked each year.
- 200,000 - 300,000 American children are at risk of being trafficked within the U.S. each year. Trafficking of persons is the second-largest and fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world, generating an estimated $32 Billion per year (second only to drug trafficking in profits).
- There are many different types of human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery. In the United States, North Carolina has consistently been ranked in the top 10 states for human trafficking.
- Most victims of sex trafficking are women and children, particularly girls under the age of 18.
- Runaways are targeted by child-traffickers for exploitation within hours of leaving home.
- 79% of prostituted women in the U.S. indicated that they entered prostitution through some type of coercion or force.
