Human

Trafficking
Emily Buss
Faun Happ
Stacey Voshell
Human Trafficking:
Modern Day Slavery
Human trafficking: the recruitment, harboring,
transporting, or procurement of a person for
labor or services for the purpose of involuntary
servitude, slavery, or forced commercial sex
acts.
Modern day slavery.
Traffickers use debt bondage, psychological
manipulation, threats, and physical violence to
control victims.
This labor can include sexual services, domestic
labor, agriculture or field labor, and factory
work.
Startling Statistics:
U.S. Department of State estimates that
14,500 to 17,500 persons are brought into
the United States each year for labor or
sexual exploitation.
30 million Human Slaves in the World
today.
The most slaves in any point in history.
Worldwide, almost 20% of all trafficking
victims are children.
In some parts of Africa and the Mekong
region, children are the majority
up to 100% in parts of West Africa
Types of Human Trafficking
Most common form of human trafficking (79%) is
sexual exploitation.
Predominantly women and girls.
30% of the countries which provided information on
the gender of traffickers, women make up the largest
proportion of traffickers.
In some parts of the world, women trafficking women
is the norm.
Second most common form is forced labour (18%)
Stats:
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-
facts/

Indicators
not getting paid for their labor
not free to change employers
being controlled by someone else
being forced to do something they don't
want to do
has been cheated into payment of debt
upon arrival
A Better Understanding:
Not For Sale Video:
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/about/
slavery/
Slavery Map:
http://www.slaverymap.org/
International Human
Trafficking
Faun
Trafficking
Most trafficking is national or regional,
carried out by people whose nationality is
the same as their victims.
There are also notable cases of long-
distance trafficking.
Europe
Americas

Case Studies:
Dilma
12 year old From
Porta Alegra Brazil
Dance Party

Natsha
18 year old Latvia
Studying in the UK
Baby sitting

Piol Bol Buk ( Francis Bok)
Piol Bol Buk (Francis Bok), 7 year old
Sudanses boy(1986)
Farm Slave
Other Countries:
Afghanistan
Most women are
forced into prostitution
Children are often
made into suicide
bombers

Indonesia
is primarily a source,
but also a transit and
destination country for
human trafficking
Uganda
Men, women and
children are incredibly
at-risk for forced labor
and prostitution within
Uganda.
Uganda does loosely
uphold an anti-
trafficking law and a
handful of cases of
human trafficking
have been reported
over the year.
Child Sex Tourism Hot Spots
Countries of Origin:
International trafficking Victims
Distribution of all countries
according to the number
of convictions recorded for
the specific offence of
trafficking in persons during
the reporting period.
The unspoken truth:
It happens even in Iowa.

Stacey
United States
The U.S. Department of State estimates
that 14,500 to 17,500 people, primarily
women and children, are trafficked to the
United States annually.
27 million individuals being trafficked
globally.
less than 5 percent of these victims have
actually been identified.
IOWA
Specifically in Iowa, there has been 125
victims identified since 2005.

Trafficking to the United States:
http://www.girlforsale.org/learning/intera
ctives/routes-map/
US Map on Trafficking:
http://www.polarisproject.org/state-map
The following states all have laws that
prosecute labor trafficking:
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada,
Alaska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Rode Island, and Maine.

US Map on Trafficking Cont.
http://www.polarisproject.org/state-map
States with laws that have anti-sex trafficking
provisions:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York,
Rode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware, District Of Columbia, Maryland, North
Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota,
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North
Dakota, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Nevada,
California, Washington, and Alaska.

US Map on Trafficking:
http://www.polarisproject.org/state-map
These states have no laws altogether:
Massachusetts, West Virginia, South
Dakota, Wyoming, and Hawaii.

Human Trafficking law
passed in 2006
Iowa code 710A.1-5 and 915.51
Was passed by Iowa legislature which not
only cover the illegal trafficking of human
but laws on slave labor and the sex trade as
well.
The first person to be convicted on
Iowas Human Trafficking law received
25yrs on December 22, 2008.
In Des Moines, Iowa Leonaerd Russell was found
guilty of two counts of Human Trafficking and
three other less charges. The 37 year old
received 25 years in prison with a $5,000 fine for
recruiting and harboring two Nebraska girls in
2007 for commercial sex activity. The girls were
15 and 16 at the time and were runaways as
well. The girls were trafficked from Omaha, NE,
Davenport, IA, Rockford, IL, and Denison, IA. To
pay their way the girls were forced in to
prostitution and performing at strip clubs.

Decorah Man will serve minimum of
17.5 years in prison for sex
abuse and Human Trafficking.
Ellis D. Smith Jr., 41, of Decorah was
investigated in Winneshiek county.
Approx. Spring of 2010 a 17 year old girl
managed to call 911 in rual Decorah.
Authorities found that the girl was sexually
assaulted and abused. This lead to
charges of sexually assault and human
trafficking charges which he pleaded
guilty on in April of 2010.

References
http://www.mosaicservices.org/trafficking/index.php
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/index.htm
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-report-on-trafficking-
in-persons.html
http://www.slaverymap.org/
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/about/slavery/
http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf
http://www.callandresponse.com/trailers.php
iowastatedaily.com
http://www.decorahnewspapers.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=13&
ArticleID=23062
www.iowanaht.org/
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