Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to lure innocent victims and force them into commercial sexual exploitation or labor.
Poverty is one of the greatest predictors of vulnerability to human trafficking. When people are struggling to pay for food, housing, or health care, they become desperate and easy targets for traffickers. These factors combined with statelessness, lack of education, and/or lack of paying jobs, make impoverished children ripe for exploitation.
Potential victims attempt to move from areas with extreme poverty to more affluent regions. During such vulnerable migrations, traffickers snare their victims. They lower victims with false promises of ethical work and pay, only to trap them into situations from which they cannot escape without risking death to themselves or their family members.
Click on the links below to learn what you can do to stop this horrific exploitation of children.
What Fuels Human Trafficking?
International Monetary Fund Report on Human Trafficking
The Freedom Story
Poverty is one of the greatest predictors of vulnerability to human trafficking. When people are struggling to pay for food, housing, or health care, they become desperate and easy targets for traffickers. These factors combined with statelessness, lack of education, and/or lack of paying jobs, make impoverished children ripe for exploitation.
Potential victims attempt to move from areas with extreme poverty to more affluent regions. During such vulnerable migrations, traffickers snare their victims. They lower victims with false promises of ethical work and pay, only to trap them into situations from which they cannot escape without risking death to themselves or their family members.
Click on the links below to learn what you can do to stop this horrific exploitation of children.
What Fuels Human Trafficking?
International Monetary Fund Report on Human Trafficking
The Freedom Story
