HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Sexual Exploitation in
United States of America
By
Ron Hampton
OVERVIEW
• Human Trafficking Market in U.S.
• Video Based on True Lives
• Traffickers & Recruiters
• De-marketing Supply & Demand
• Counter-trafficking Recommendations
What is Human Trafficking?
• Multi-dimensional threat
• It deprives people of their human rights
and freedoms
• It is a global health risk
• Fuels the growth of organized crime.
What is Human Trafficking?
• “Trafficking in persons” shall mean the recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the 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. 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. The recruitment, transportation,
transfer, harboring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation
shall be considered “trafficking in persons” even if this does not
involve any of the means set forth of this article.
Source: United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime,
Supplemental Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children
Forced Labor Prevalent Major
Sectors of U.S. Economy
• PROSTITUTION (46%)
• DOMESTIC SERVICE (27%)
• AGRICULTURE (10%)
• SWEATSHOP FACTORY (5%)
Prostitution & Slavery
Countries where legalized or tolerated:
1. Fuels the growth
2. Greater DEMAND – nearly always
an increase in number of women and
children trafficked into commercial
slavery.
USA ROUTES
Movement Zones:
1. Source
2. Transit
3. Arrival
4. Movement in U.S.
LIFETIME VIDEO CLIP
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Play
Bought and Sold in the 21st Century
-HUMAN commerce rivals ILLEGAL DRUG
and ARMS TRAFFICKING commerce
-Continues to grow as the U.S. Government
PASSES ground-breaking legislation!
UGLY PHENOMENON
DRUGS AND WEAPONS CAN
ONLY BE SOLD ONE TIME,
WOMEN, and CHILDREN CAN BE
SOLD EVERY DAY, OVER AND
OVER………………..
Sexual Slavery
• Economic reasons
• Deceived and lured by traffickers
• 150,000 foreign victims currently enslaved
• 17,500 NEW victims every year
• Coming from all over the world
Gender and Age
Gender and Migration
Male, 20%
Age and Migration
Female, 80%
Under 18, 50%
Adult, 50%
Legal/Illegal foreign-borns reside in
Eastern & Western parts of U.S.
Especially in California (9 million) and New York (4 million).
Traffickers
• Driven by the extremely high profit margins
• Use various recruitment methods
• Prey on the women’s desire to help their
families
TRAFFICKERS & RECRUITERS
As the Supply and Demand Chain is being
built, driven by the extremely high profits,
the NETWORK which links the SUPPLY
with the DEMAND has also been built —
they are ……
TRAFFICKERS & RECRUITERS
Marketing the
Product
RUSSIAN WEBSITES:
In English advertising,
―Cheap women, you can fit three in a room,
they'll serve 10 men a night"
Another in Russian saying,
―Great jobs overseas, have your own
apartment, don't pay for anything".
SUPPLY & DEMAND
“Stopping this abuse requires going after the criminal
gangs who SUPPLY the sexual predators.
But we cannot put them out of business until and
unless we deal with the problem of DEMAND. And so
that's why we are going after the unscrupulous adults
who prey on the young and the innocent.“
President George W. Bush, speaking at the
National Training Conference on
HUMAN TRAFFICKING,
July 16, 2004
“TIP” REPORT
The U.S. State Department's annual
"Trafficking in Persons" Report
looks at human trafficking activity
around the world and divides
countries into a "tier" systems.
2005 TIP REPORT
“Serves to expose these despicable aspects
of trafficking.
It provokes, lauds, and challenges
countries including the United States.”
Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice
U.S. State Department's Annual
"Trafficking in Persons" Report
• "Tier 1" countries as those whose governments
comply fully with Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000.
• "Tier 2" countries do not fully comply with the
act but are making "significant progress" toward
compliance.
• "Tier 3" countries do not comply and are not
making efforts to do so.
U.S. Report Assesses
Human Trafficking
Map highlights the countries listed as "Tier 3" in the years the State Department has released
the report
DEMARKETING
SUPPLY
AND DEMAND
Awareness
Prevention
Protection
Prosecution
Victim Assistance
hotline number 888.373.7888
Oprah sent a letter to each of her
U.S. Senators and one to her
congressman urging them to
acknowledge this tragedy and make
stopping child sex trafficking a top
priority.
U.S. Counter-trafficking
Current Efforts
• Congress passed legislation Americans prosecuted
• for sexually preying on children abroad sentenced
• to 30 years in prison.
• Department of Justice focused on increasing victims
• rescued and number of prosecutions/ convictions of traffickers.
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifying
trafficking victims to qualify for the same assistance available to
refugees.
• HHS running a major public awareness campaign to alert victims
in the U.S. help hotline number 888.373.7888.
• DOD implemented a zero-tolerance stand against any actions by
Defense personnel that contribute to human trafficking.
• DOL, Homeland Security, USAID, and other government
agencies are executing action plans to combat humantrafficking.
•www.stae.gov/documents/organization/23598.pdf
U. S. Efforts in 2005
U. S. Efforts in 2005
Recommendations
• Gain a Better Understanding of the Magnitude
• Create Awareness Campaigns
• Emphasize Indicators of Human Trafficking
• Educate “The Good Neighbor” Policy
• Promote private organizations in rescuing and caring for
victims
• Encourage Congress to continue to pass strong legislation to
put Traffickers/Recruiters in Prison
• Create De-marketing Campaigns
• Name & Shame companies and businesses involved in any
form of human trafficking.
• Educate public on “evils of slavery” and global impact
• Expose criminal rings and how they operate