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JANUARY 11 IS TRAFFICKING AWARENESS DAY IN THE US
Human Rights First Fact Sheet on HOW TO STOP THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/Trafficking-blueprint.pdf
US State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2014:
http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2014/?utm_source=NEW+RESOURCE:+Trafficking+in+Persons+R
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Historical Short Video for Campaign Against Trafficking:
http://www.traitedesfemmes2008.ch/en/spot/
UNODC – UN OFFICE OF DRUGS & CRIME
http://www.unodc.org/toc/en/crimes/human-trafficking.html
Human Trafficking: People for Sale – Women & Girls
Women make up two thirds of the world's human trafficking victims. [11] The vast majority of these female victims are young women who are lured with false promises of employment and then raped, drugged, imprisoned, beaten or threatened with violence, have debt imposed on them, have their passport confiscated and/or are blackmailed.
Globally, one in five victims of human trafficking are children, although in poorer regions and subregions, such as Africa and Greater Mekong, they make up the majority of trafficked persons. Children are exploited for the purposes of forced begging, child pornography or sex. Children are sometimes favored as laborers as their small hands are deemed better for untangling fishing nets, sewing luxury goods or picking cocoa. Children are also enslaved as child soldiers in war zones.