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Trafficking in Persons - Facts and Figures

This section provides the latest information and statistics.

• According to the 2004 U.S. Department of Justice report, Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons:
  
  
  • "As of May 2004, the U.S. Government estimates that 14,500 to 17,500 people are trafficked annually into the United States, and 600,000 to 800,000 are trafficked globally.”¹
    
    
  • “Approximately 80 percent of the victims are female; 70 percent of those females are trafficked for the commercial sex industry.”
    
    
  • “Roughly two-thirds of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally, within East Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people).”
    
    
  • “The largest number of people trafficked into the United States come from East Asia and the Pacific (5,000 to 7,000). The next highest numbers come from Latin America and from Europe and Eurasia, at between 3,500 and 5,500 victims from each.”

• In June 2007, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that they had made “more than 61 arrests under the child sex tourism provisions of the PROTECT Act” since Operation Predator was initiated in July 2003 (Operation Predator Fact Sheet, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2007).

• “Many victims of trafficking are exploited for purposes of commercial sex, including prostitution, stripping, pornography and live-sex shows. However, trafficking also takes place as labor exploitation, such as domestic servitude, sweatshop factories, or migrant agricultural work. Traffickers use force, fraud and coercion to compel women, men and children to engage in these activities” (Human Trafficking Fact Sheet, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Campaign to Rescue & Restore Victims of Human Trafficking, 2004).

• "Victims of human trafficking pay a horrible price. Psychological and physical harm, including disease and stunted growth, often have permanent effects. In many cases the exploitation of trafficking victims is progressive: a child trafficked into one form of labor may be further abused in another. It is a brutal reality of the modern-day slave trade that its victims are frequently bought and sold many times over-often sold initially by family members" (Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. Department of State, 2006).

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