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Trafficking in Persons Report 2010

Today the State Department publishes the annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which examines the progress that the U.S. and other countries have made in combating human trafficking with in its borders.  It also rates all the countries on a series of levels according to how well it is controlling human trafficking with in it’s borders.

What You Need to Know

• Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years.
• An estimated $9.5 billion is generated in annual revenue from all trafficking activities, with at least $4 billion attributed to the worldwide brothel industry. (Ibid.)
• An estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry. (UNICEF)
• An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. (UNICEF)
• Around the world between 50 and 60 percent of the children who are trafficked into sexual slavery are under age 16.
• Human trafficking is the second-largest organized crime in the world.
• 25 percent of all child sex tourists around the world are U.S. citizens.
• The largest number of people trafficked into the United States come from East Asia and the Pacific (5,000 to 7,000 victims). The next highest numbers come from Latin America and from Europe and Eurasia, with between 3,500 and 5,500 victims from each. (U.S. Departments of Justice, Health & Human Services, State, Labor, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. 2004. Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice.)