Human Trafficking

School Presentation

What is it?

Human trafficking is modern day slavery.

It is the sale of human beings for the profit of others.

More than one person suffers from being brutally trafficked every minute around the world.

United Nations def.

"the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat, use of force or other means of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the receiving or giving of payment… to a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation."

Human Trafficking

Over 27 Million people are trafficked today

A multi-billion dollar industry almost equal to the drug and illegal arms trade

Women and children are among the highest percentage trafficked

Types of Trafficking

Un-voluntary Sex Slavery

Forced LaborDebt BondageChild Soldiers

Eastern Europe

Over 1 Million people have been trafficked from Eastern Europe

100,000 Eastern European girls have been sold into the sex trade

How it Happens?

Phony job offers abroad

Payments to orphanages for the 15 & 16 year old girls

AbductionsFalse advertising

What Effects?

Documents are taken away

Beaten into submission

Forced to work or your life (or the lives of your loved ones at home) is threatened

Live in desperation

Why this exists?

MoneyMoneyMoney

Testimonies

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What to do to prevent being trafficked?

Be careful meeting strangers who offer a better life and lots of money

Check out job offers through the hotline number and online resources

Always tell people where you are traveling to with contact numbers

Signs of Trafficking

Cannot leave the shop or business

Does not have IDAfraid around

adultsNot allowed to be

outside aloneWorks long hoursPoor diet and

appearance

What to do if you are trafficked?

Try to find someone who will help you

Contact your embassy

Contact local authorities

Don’t lose hope

How to help?

Spread the word about this issue

Help your friends who may be falsely offered a job abroad

Report suspicious people who advertise these types of offers

Lobby local government to prosecute traffickers

Power of Campaigns

PostersHandoutsMass MediaPeople Power

Join the Cause

Become a JFY advocate

Hang a poster and do a school presentation

Give to spread the campaign

Contact Info

Justiceforyouth.org info@justiceforyouth.

org