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Its mission is to raise awareness of human trafficking of women and children around the world and to provide financial support to other anti-human trafficking organizations. [224] It sponsors Frocks 4 Freedom, an event selling discounted trendy fashion, [225] and Run 4 Their Lives, a 5K race, [226] to raise money for their anti-human ...
The 2010 Trafficking in Persons report described the United States as, "a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor, debt bondage, and forced prostitution." [35] Sexual slavery in the United States may occur in multiple forms and in multiple venues.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Re-authorization Act of 2005 (TVPRA) gives state and local law enforcement funding to prosecute customers of commercial sex, therefore some law enforcement agencies make no distinction between prostitution and sex trafficking. One study interviewed women who have experienced law enforcement operations as sex ...
Sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, a report said.
Sex trafficking of women and children is the second most common type of trafficking for export in Africa. [95] In Ghana, "connection men" or traffickers are witnessed regularly at border crossings and transport individuals via fake visas.
The TIP Report on a map based on 2021 data The number of trafficking victims in EU countries in 2022 The Trafficking in Persons Report , or the TIP Report , is an annual report issued since 2001 by the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons .
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) is a network of more than 80 non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world that fight against trafficking in persons. GAATW is committed to work for changes in the political, economic, social, and legal systems and structures which contribute to the persistence of trafficking in ...
The percentage of women who have been raped in the United States is between 15% and 20%, with various studies disagreeing with each other. (National Violence Against Women survey in 1995, 17.6% rate; [13] a 2007 Department of Justice study on rape found 18% rate [14]). About 500 women were raped per day in the United States in 2008. [10]