Education & Awareness
What Is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a crime that uses force, fraud, or coercion to exploit people for labor, services, or commercial sex.
Human trafficking is also known as trafficking in persons or modern-day slavery. It can involve compelling or coercing a person to provide labor, services, or commercial sex acts.
When a minor is exploited for commercial sex, it is considered human trafficking regardless of whether force, fraud, or coercion was used.
There Is No Single Profile of a Trafficking Victim
Victims and survivors of human trafficking can come from any race, ethnicity, background, income level, education level, age, gender, or community.
Trafficking can happen in large cities, small towns, online, in neighborhoods, and in places people pass every day without realizing what is happening.
Trafficking Is Often Built on Control
Traffickers may use violence, threats, manipulation, addiction, isolation, debt, fear, shame, false promises, or emotional control to exploit another person.
Sometimes control is obvious. Other times it is hidden, gradual, psychological, or relational.
Possible Warning Signs
Someone may need help if they:
These signs do not prove trafficking by themselves, but they can be reasons to seek help or report a concern.
If You or Someone You Know Needs Help
If someone is in immediate danger, call 911.
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