Facts about Human Trafficking
- 50 percent of all trafficking victims worldwide are children.
- 600,000 – 800,000 people – 80 percent are girls and women– are trafficked across national borders annually, which does not count millions trafficked within their own countries.
- 1 million children each year are exploited in the global commercial sex trade.
Human Trafficking in Thailand
- The average age of a child sex tour victim is 14. Americans make up 25 percent of the customers.
- Every year, some 200,000 girls and women are exploited.
- Widespread sex tourism in Thailand encourages trafficking for sexual exploitation.
- Some 40,000 women and girls from neighboring Myanmar (Burma) are exploited in the sex industry.
- Tier 2 Watch on the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Human Trafficking in India
- $400 million in revenue is generated each year by Bombay’s red-light district.
- 200,000 persons are trafficked into, within, or through India annually.
- 2,000 girls are rescued from sex-slavery each year.
- 2.3 million girls and women work as prostitutes and madams.
- Tier 2 Watch on the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report.
Where are we now?
We are currently financing the rescue and restoration of human trafficking vicitms in:
- India
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Moldova
- Nepal
- Thailand
What's next?
- Amsterdam
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Azerbaijan
- Illinois, US