Human Trafficking
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888 | TTY: 711
Human trafficking is a pervasive, global problem with acute consequences for the survivors. Human trafficking, according to the U.S. Department of State, is a form of modern-day slavery involving the recruitment, harboring, or obtaining a person for labor or services, through force, fraud, coercion or threat for the purpose of exploitation. There are an estimated 40 million slaves in the world today - that’s more than at any other point in human history. Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise worldwide, with estimated total profits of $150 billion.
Human trafficking is happening right here in the United States:
- More than 40,000 total cases of human trafficking have been reported to the Hotline in the last 10 years.
- According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline reported call data, there were 7,255 individuals of sex trafficking reported in 2017.
- The 2017 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that more than 95% of active criminal cases involved sex trafficking.
- Of the active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. in 2017, 65.8% involved child victims.
