(source: US Department of State)

Learn the red flags of trafficking and ask questions so that you can detect optional trafficking situation.

In the United States, report your suspicions to law enforcement at 911, Department of Justice at 1-88-428-7581, and the national Human Trafficking resource Center at 1-888-373-7888. 

Be an aware consumer. Make socially responsible investments. Let your retailers know that you support their efforts to maintain a slavery free supply chain. Encourage your company or your employer to take steps to investigate and eliminate human trafficking throughout its supply chain and to publish the information for consumer awareness.  (Refer to the Dept of Labor's List of Good Produced by Child labor or Forced labor).

Hire trafficking survivors.

Volunteer your professional services with the Stop Child Trafficking coalition.  We are in need of help from lawyers, doctors, dentists, counselors, translators and interpreters, graphics designers, public relations and media professionals, event planners and accountants.

Donate funds for the Stop Child Trafficking Coalition.

organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds tot he Stop Child Trafficking Coalition.

Join the Stop Child Trafficking Coalition's E-Alert system.

Encourage local schools to include slavery in their curriculum.  As a parent, educator, or school personnel, be aware of how traffickers target school age children.

Meet with and write to your local, state and federal government representative to let them know that you care about combating child trafficking in your community.

Help the Stop-Child-Trafficking Coalition in its public awareness campaign, buy purchasing and distributing our red "not-for-sale" wrist bands.

Host an awareness event to watch and discuss a recent trafficking documentary.  On a larger scale, work with the Stop-Child-Trafficking Coalition to host a trafficking film festival.  Several noteworthy films and documentaries have been produced in the last several years that bring attention to the flight of victims worldwide.

Write a letter to the editor for your local paper about child trafficking in your community (information on how to write a letter to the editor can be found on the Stop-Child-Trafficking website).

Incorporate human trafficking information into your professional associations' conferences, trainings, manuals, and other materials as relevant.

Students can join or establish a university club to raise awareness about child trafficking throughout the local community and identify victims.  Request that human trafficking to be an issue included in such university courses as health, migration, human rights, social work, and online.  Increase scholarship about human trafficking by publishing an article, teaching a class or hosting a symposium.

Community organizations can ensure that staff is able to identify and assist trafficked persons.

Law enforcement officials can join or start a local human trafficking task force.

Mental health or medical providers can extend low-cost or free services to survivors of trafficking assisted by nearby anti-trafficking organizations.

Immigration attorneys can learn about and offer to human trafficking victims the immigration benefits of which they are eligible.

Employment law attorneys can look for signs of human trafficking among your clients. 

The number of slaves in the world today is greater than at any time in history.

Approximately 80% of human trafficking is for sex.

Trafficking in human beings, one of the most lucrative and fastest growing crimes worldwide, generates approximately up to $10 billion per year. In response to intensive efforts to stop drug trafficking, criminals involved in the drug trade are now diverting their resources to trafficking human beings. the cost of buying and selling human beings is not very high, and the risks lower than trafficking drugs.

Today, slaves are most cost effective for the trafficker than they ever before in history. The population explosion has created an abundant, on-going supply of victims, and globalization has made more people more vulnerable and easily enslaved.

A human trafficker can receive up to 2000 percent profit from a girl trafficked for sex. The pimp can often turn around and sell her again for a greater price because he has trained her and broken her spirit, which saves future buyers the trouble.

• On average, a single sex slave earned her pimp at least $250,000 a year.
• 30,000 people die each year abuse, torture, and neglect due to trafficking.
• Approximately 80% of all those being trafficked are under the age of 24, and some as young as six years old.

Sex traffickers often recruit children because they are young, innocent and more unsuspecting than adults. There is also a high demand for young victims.

Traffickers target victims on the telephone, internet, through friends,a t the mall, at major sporting events, and in after-school programs.

Here are additonal ways to get invovled.  Please, take a moment and review this information.

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