The  Unheard Voices Of Slavery

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Cut The Root Of Slavery

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                                        The land of the free and the brave has become the receiving country for sex-slaves and forced manual workers.

What is trafficking?
According to the U.S. State Department's Annual Trafficking in Persons Report,

"severe forms of trafficking in persons" are defined as:

	(a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by: force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
	(b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, defines trafficking in persons as:
	“…the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of 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.“             Child Sex Trafficking

Run-away or kidnapped children are also sold and exploited within our borders and Internet child pornography or solicitation is thriving.

A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the USA.    That is more than 2,000 a day and more than 800,000 every year. 

Another estimated  500,000 disappear without being reported. 

 For most, these bodies are never found What happens to them? (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

Rising tide of human trafficking by

Americans against other Americans - between 1.3 and 2.8 million runaways and homeless youths living on America's

streets kids are one of the most at risk populations for exploitation. 1 in 7 teenagers in the USA run away from home.

Living on the streets, one out of every three teens will be lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.

And the longer they are gone, the more likely they are to engage in "survival sex." After three months away from home,

90 percent of children will turn to sex.  (National Incidence Studies of Missing, Runaway and Throwaway Children)

 How Does Human Trafficking Affect Our Schools?

Trafficking can involve school-age children—particularly those not living with their parents,

who are vulnerable to coerced labor exploitation, domestic servitude,

 or commercial sexual exploitation (i.e., prostitution).Sex traffickers target children because of their vulnerability and gullibility,

as well as the market demand for young victims.

Those who recruit minors into prostitution violate federal anti-trafficking laws, even if there is no coercion or movement across state lines.

The children at risk are not just high school students—studies demonstrate that pimps prey on victims as young as 12.

Traffickers have been reported targeting their minor victims through:

1.  telephone
2. chat-lines,
3. clubs,
4. on the street,
5. through friends,
6. and at malls,

as well as using girls to recruit other girls at schools and after-school programs.

‪How Do I Identify a Victim of Human Trafficking?

• Has unexplained absences from school for a period of time, and is therefore a truant

• Demonstrates an inability to attend school on a regular basis

• Chronically runs away from home

• Makes references to frequent travel to other cities

• Exhibits bruises or other physical trauma, withdrawn behavior, depression, or fear

• Lacks control over her or his schedule or identification documents

• Is hungry-malnourished or inappropriately dressed (based on weather conditions or surroundings)

• Shows signs.

 Anyone can be a victim of slave trade.  Learn, and take looked beneath the surface and take action by reporting, 

before this can happen to a love one. Together,

we can make a difference to STOP Human Trafficking through:  Taking Action, Awareness,Education,Reach ,and Rescue

•   Prevention,
• Education 
•  Public Awareness, Rescue
• public awearness 

Click here to see how you can help fight the travesty of human trafficking.