1. Human Trafficking… Issues and Responses

2. Defined: …the recruitment, transport, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

3. 27 Million.

6. 80 % of trans-national victims are women and girls

7. 71% …of women are trafficked into the commercial sex trade

8. Why? Population Explosion Vulnerable People – Poverty, Corruption, Instability, etc. Existing Market

9. Supply Demand

14. $34 Billion

15. Profit per worker: $16,500- $67,000/yr. Average cost of a human: $90

16. Here’s what $90 will buy on Craigslist

17. NOW WHAT?

18. Hope

19. 27 Million and $34 Billion =smallest % in History

21. OLEG!

23. Transition Home

24. change is a PROCESS

26. Questions?