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HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human trafficking is the second largest fast growing criminal industry in the world today. (U.S. State Department) The illegal trade of humans is often misunderstood andmisrepresented as purely an international issue, often overlooking that human trafficking happens throughout the United States. Human trafficking is a multifaceted issue that includes fraud, force, coercion,and exploitation for sexual purposes as well as for purposes of forced labor. The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is the agreed upon term for child victims of human trafficking forsexual purposes.
Human trafficking, also described as modern-day slavery or involuntary servitude, affects an estimated 700,000 to 2 million people around the globe every year. Of this number,thousands of victims land in the United States – with New York City serving as a major destination and transit point. Traffickers often transport individuals from their home countries to unfamiliardestinations, leaving them defenseless and vulnerable. Victims are often forced, through physical violence and psychological threats, to engage in sex acts or to perform work under slavery-like conditions.Trafficking in persons is a violation of human rights.

Two Main Types of Trafficking
According to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the different types of traffickingare
Sex trafficking: In which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform a sex act is not yet 18 years of age (child sex trafficking).Labor trafficking: Recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services, through using force, fraud, or coercion. The person is subjected to involuntary servitude,debt bondage, peonage, or slavery.
There are three common elements to trafficking cases on which both international and federal definitions agree:
Process - the victim is recruited, transferred,...