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Since the plenary session at the NJC on human trafficking, NOLSW staff received an overwhelming response from members who are interested in learning more about human trafficking and how they might be able to get more involved in combating modern day slavery. Here are a few simple ways to help make a difference in the lives of persons who are victims of human trafficking: 1- KNOW THE LAW: Under the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act of 2000, the legal definition of, “severe forms of trafficking in persons” is: - Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not
attained 18 years of age, (22 USC § 7102; 8 CFR § 214.11(a)). - Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 USC § 7102). (http://nhtrc.polarisproject.org)
2- KNOW THE FACTS: Learn more about human trafficking and help educate others by talking to them about what you have learned. Here are a few facts to get you started: a. 27 million people around the world are victims of modern-day slavery (Kevin Bales, of Free the Slaves) b. 1 million children exploited by the global commercial sex trade, every year. (U.S. Department of State, The Facts About Child Sex Tourism: 2005.) c. $32 billion in total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry. (ILO, A global alliance against forced labor: 2005). 3- KNOW WHERE TO FIND MORE INFORMATION: The following websites offer excellent resources to help you understand the scope of the problem and how you can help: The National Human Trafficking Resource Center Rescue and Restore Campaign, US Department of Health and Human Services Shared Hope, National Report Please keep checking the website for additional ways to learn about and get involved in combatting human trafficking.
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