Facts

The following information comes from Stop the Traffik

• Human trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime and one of the largest sources of income for organized crime.
  The UN Office on Drugs and Crime
• 600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked accross borders every year. Approximately 80 percent are women and girls. Up to 50 percent are minors.
  Estimate by The US State Department
• 1.2 million children are trafficked every year.
  Estimate by UNICEF
• At least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labor worldwide. Of these, 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking.
  A global alliance against forced labor, international Labour Organization, 2005
• The majority of trafficked victims arguably come from the poorest countries and poorest strata of the national population.
  A global alliance against forced labor, international Labour Organization, 2005
• Trafficking is the fastest growing means by which people are caught in the trap of slavery.
  Anti-Slavery
• Human trafficking is the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drug trafficking.
  Beiser 2005
• It is the fastest gorwing form of international crime, already generating in excess of 31 billion dollars per year in criminal proceeds.
  International Labor Organization
• There are reports that some trafficking groups are switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search for high profits and lower risk.
  UN Office on Drugs and Crime
• People are trafficked into prostitution, begging, forced labor, military service, forced illegal adoption, forced marriage, etc.

• Cocoa
• Cotton
• Tobacco
• Coffee
• Rice
• Bricks

• Garmets
• Carpets
• Footwear
• Gold
• Diamonds
• Coal