recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or
receipt of persons, the actual taking of somebody.
The means: by threat or use of force or other forms
of coercion, deception, fraud, abuse of power of a
position [or] of a person who is vulnerable. The
purpose is for exploitation. So, it's the taking of a
person, by some means, to exploit them. It covers
everything from a boyfriend manipulating a girl
into having sex for money with others to interna-
tional organized crime.
between four or five million to 80 million. Gener-
ally, it's thought to be around 20 million people
includes sex trafficking, child sex trafficking
(which is anybody under the age of 18), forced,
bonded or debt labor, domestic servitude, forced
child labor, child soldiers, forced marriage, child
begging, and trafficking for human organs. About
66 percent are women, 12 percent men, 13 percent
girls and 9 percent boys. Around 79 to 80 percent
is thought to be trafficking for sex and about 18
percent trafficking for forced labor.
tims of human trafficking for so many reasons.
Often poverty makes them feel they don't have a
choice. They get deceived, thinking they're being
offered employment. Instead they are forced to
work for little or nothing and often beaten and
Social Justice Commission in New
York City, talks with Editor-in-Chief
Lt. Colonel Allen Satterlee about
The Salvation Army's
fi ght against human
traffi cking around
the world.