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What is Human Trafficking?

Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting 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

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).

An estimated 50 million individuals are subject to human trafficking worldwide.​​

International Labour Organization, 2022

References:

National Human Trafficking Hotline

GPO Official Document

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This website was produced by the Lincoln Tubman Foundation supporting Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force initiatives under 2019-VT-BX-0112, awarded by

the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this training are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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