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About Human Trafficking
What is Human Trafficking?
An estimated 50 million individuals are subject to human trafficking worldwide.​
International Labour Organization, 2022
There are two main types of human trafficking. They are sex and labor trafficking.
Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age
(22 USC § 7102).
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Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, (22 USC § 7102).
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