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Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Languages: English, Spanish and 200 more languages
Website: traffickingresourcecenter.org
Published on Jan 24, 2015
ABC's Nightline: Diane Sawyer reports on the danger of vulnerable young women falling victim to prostitution rings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgTmcq-bBk
What to Expect When You Call the NHTRC Hotline:
Calling the NHTRC
Watch the Video here:
traffickingresourcecenter.org/resources/what-expect-when-you-call-nhtrc-hotline
PUBLISHED: June, 2015 By:
National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC)
Watch this training to learn about what to expect when you call the NHTRC hotline.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline and answer frequent questions about calling the NHTRC. The presentation will describe what to expect when speaking with a call specialist, how the NHTRC works with service providers and law enforcement, and how victims and survivors are connected to services.
Operated by Polaris: Freedom Happens NOW
Traffickers use violence, threats, blackmail, false promises, deception, manipulation, and debt bondage to trap vulnerable individuals in horrific situations. According to the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), severe forms of human trafficking are legally defined as:
Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the 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).
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).
For more information on these legal definitions, click here
traffickingresourcecenter.org/what-human-trafficking/federal-law
to visit the Federal Law page.
Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker takes any one of the
(1) enumerated actions:
Induce, Recruit, Harbor, Transport, Provide, Obtain;
and then employs the
(2) means:
force, fraud or coercion;
for the
(3) purpose of compelling the victim to:
provide commercial sex acts or labor or services.
At a minimum, one element from each column must be present to establish a potential situation of human trafficking. Situations of minors engaging in commercial sex are human trafficking, despite the presence of force, fraud or coercion. The presence of force, fraud or coercion indicates that the victim has not consented of his or her own free will.
Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people in the United States and around the world. Traffickers are estimated to exploit 20.9 million victims, with an estimated 1.5 million victims in North America alone. Despite growing awareness about this crime, human trafficking continues to go underreported due to its covert nature, misconceptions about its definition, and a lack of awareness about its indicators.
Why Trafficking Exists
Human trafficking is a market-driven criminal industry that is based on the principles of supply and demand, like drugs or arms trafficking. Many factors make children and adults vulnerable to human trafficking. However, human trafficking does not exist solely because many people are vulnerable to exploitation. Instead, human trafficking is fueled by a demand for cheap labor, services and for commercial sex. Human traffickers are those who employ force, fraud, or coercion to victimize others in their desire to profit from the existing demand. To ultimately solve the problem of human trafficking, it is essential to address these demand-driven factors, as well as to alter the overall market incentives of high-profit and low-risk that traffickers currently exploit.
Labor trafficking and sex trafficking of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals persist and thrive for a number of reasons, including:
Low Risk: Human traffickers perceive there to be little risk or deterrence to affect their criminal operations. While investigations, prosecutions and penalties have increased throughout recent years, many traffickers still believe the high profit margin to be worth the risk of detection. Factors that add to low risk include: lack of government and law enforcement training, low community awareness, ineffective or unused laws, lack of law enforcement investigation, scarce resources for victim recovery services, and social blaming of victims.
High Profits: When individuals are willing to buy commercial sex, they create a market and make it profitable for traffickers to sexually exploit children and adults. When consumers are willing to buy goods and services from industries that rely on forced labor, they create a profit incentive for labor traffickers to maximize revenue with minimal production costs.
>>> Left unchecked, human trafficking will continue to flourish in environments where traffickers can reap substantial monetary gains with relatively low risk of getting caught or lost profits.
The online National Human Trafficking Referral Directory is designed to provide access to critical emergency, transitional, and long-term social services for victims and survivors of human trafficking. The directory also connects individuals with training and technical assistance and opportunities to get involved in their communities.
traffickingresourcecenter.org/training-resources/referral-directory
This is not an exhaustive list. If you can’t find what you are looking for, do not see a particular organization listed, or want direct personal assistance, please call us 24/7 at 1-888-373-7888. For more information and inclusion criteria, review the National Human Trafficking Referral Directory Guidelines.
Need help? United States:
1 (888) 373-7888
National Human Trafficking Resource Center
traffickingresourcecenter.org
SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")
Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Languages: English, Spanish and 200 more languages
Website: traffickingresourcecenter.org
Published on Jan 24, 2015
ABC's Nightline: Diane Sawyer reports on the danger of vulnerable young women falling victim to prostitution rings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgTmcq-bBk
What to Expect When You Call the NHTRC Hotline:
Calling the NHTRC
Watch the Video here:
traffickingresourcecenter.org/resources/what-expect-when-you-call-nhtrc-hotline
PUBLISHED: June, 2015 By:
National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC)
Watch this training to learn about what to expect when you call the NHTRC hotline.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline and answer frequent questions about calling the NHTRC. The presentation will describe what to expect when speaking with a call specialist, how the NHTRC works with service providers and law enforcement, and how victims and survivors are connected to services.
Operated by Polaris: Freedom Happens NOW
Traffickers use violence, threats, blackmail, false promises, deception, manipulation, and debt bondage to trap vulnerable individuals in horrific situations. According to the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), severe forms of human trafficking are legally defined as:
Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the 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).
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).
For more information on these legal definitions, click here
traffickingresourcecenter.org/what-human-trafficking/federal-law
to visit the Federal Law page.
Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker takes any one of the
(1) enumerated actions:
Induce, Recruit, Harbor, Transport, Provide, Obtain;
and then employs the
(2) means:
force, fraud or coercion;
for the
(3) purpose of compelling the victim to:
provide commercial sex acts or labor or services.
At a minimum, one element from each column must be present to establish a potential situation of human trafficking. Situations of minors engaging in commercial sex are human trafficking, despite the presence of force, fraud or coercion. The presence of force, fraud or coercion indicates that the victim has not consented of his or her own free will.
Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people in the United States and around the world. Traffickers are estimated to exploit 20.9 million victims, with an estimated 1.5 million victims in North America alone. Despite growing awareness about this crime, human trafficking continues to go underreported due to its covert nature, misconceptions about its definition, and a lack of awareness about its indicators.
Why Trafficking Exists
Human trafficking is a market-driven criminal industry that is based on the principles of supply and demand, like drugs or arms trafficking. Many factors make children and adults vulnerable to human trafficking. However, human trafficking does not exist solely because many people are vulnerable to exploitation. Instead, human trafficking is fueled by a demand for cheap labor, services and for commercial sex. Human traffickers are those who employ force, fraud, or coercion to victimize others in their desire to profit from the existing demand. To ultimately solve the problem of human trafficking, it is essential to address these demand-driven factors, as well as to alter the overall market incentives of high-profit and low-risk that traffickers currently exploit.
Labor trafficking and sex trafficking of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals persist and thrive for a number of reasons, including:
Low Risk: Human traffickers perceive there to be little risk or deterrence to affect their criminal operations. While investigations, prosecutions and penalties have increased throughout recent years, many traffickers still believe the high profit margin to be worth the risk of detection. Factors that add to low risk include: lack of government and law enforcement training, low community awareness, ineffective or unused laws, lack of law enforcement investigation, scarce resources for victim recovery services, and social blaming of victims.
High Profits: When individuals are willing to buy commercial sex, they create a market and make it profitable for traffickers to sexually exploit children and adults. When consumers are willing to buy goods and services from industries that rely on forced labor, they create a profit incentive for labor traffickers to maximize revenue with minimal production costs.
>>> Left unchecked, human trafficking will continue to flourish in environments where traffickers can reap substantial monetary gains with relatively low risk of getting caught or lost profits.
The online National Human Trafficking Referral Directory is designed to provide access to critical emergency, transitional, and long-term social services for victims and survivors of human trafficking. The directory also connects individuals with training and technical assistance and opportunities to get involved in their communities.
traffickingresourcecenter.org/training-resources/referral-directory
This is not an exhaustive list. If you can’t find what you are looking for, do not see a particular organization listed, or want direct personal assistance, please call us 24/7 at 1-888-373-7888. For more information and inclusion criteria, review the National Human Trafficking Referral Directory Guidelines.