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= Human Trafficking =

Although slavery is commonly thought to be a thing of the past, human traffickers generate hundreds of billions of dollars in profits by trapping millions of people in horrific situations around the world, including here in the U.S. Traffickers use violence, threats, deception, debt bondage, and other manipulative tactics to force people to engage in commercial sex or to provide labor or services against their will. While more research is needed on the scope of human trafficking, below are a few key statistics:
 * The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally.
 * 68% of them are trapped in forced labor.
 * 26% of them are children.
 * 55% are women and girls.
 * The International Labor Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide.
 * The U.S. Department of Labor has identified 139 goods from 75 countries made by forced and child labor.
 * In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims.
 * Of those, 86% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran.
 * There is no official estimate of the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. Polaris estimates that the total number of victims nationally reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.

2014

 * In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center responded to 21,431 calls, 1,482 webforms, and 1,149 emails.
 * Of those signals, 5,042 referenced potential cases of human trafficking.
 * The NHTRC received a 26 percent increase in calls directly from survivors of modern slavery in 2014.
 * The top venue for sex trafficking was commercial front brothels.
 * The top industry for labor trafficking was domestic work.
 * In total, 19,724 cases of human trafficking have been reported to the NHTRC hotline and Polaris's BeFree Texting Helpline since 2007.

2015

 * In 2015, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received 21,947 calls, 1,535 webforms, and 1,275 emails.
 * The BeFree Textline received 1,472 SMS messages.
 * Of the above signals, 5,973 referenced potential cases of human trafficking.
 * Human trafficking occurred in all 50 states in 2015.
 * 252 of the human trafficking cases reported occurred overseas.
 * In total, 25,696 trafficking cases have been reported through the NHTRC and Polaris’s BeFree Textline since December 2007.
 * More than 1,600 survivors of human trafficking reached out for help in 2015—a 24% increase over 2014.
 * The top venue for sex trafficking was commercial front brothels.
 * The top industry for labor trafficking was domestic work.

Cites
https://polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/facts

https://polarisproject.org/resources/2014-hotline-statistics

https://polarisproject.org/resources/2014-hotline-statistics