Girls - Poster
$15.00
Human Trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. It’s annual revenue is approx $42.5 billion dollars. Human Trafficking is the practice of luring or tricking people to leave their homes to engage in exploitative work – basically modern, efficient, and lucrative slavery.
Human trafficking takes on many forms, from prostitution to sweatshop labor. The United States State Department estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year with 70% of those being women or children. Far more are kidnapped and enslaved within their home countries. Between 10,000 – 14,000 of those people are trafficked into the United States.
Statistics
- The majority of trafficked victims arguably come from the poorest countries and poorest strata of the national population.A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
- Human trafficking in the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drugs trafficking.Belser 2005
- There are even reports that some trafficking groups are switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search of high profits at lower risk. Un office on drugs and crime
- People are trafficked into prostitution, begging, forced labour, military service, domestic service, forced illegal adoption, forced marriage etc.
- Types of recruitment; include abduction, false agreement with parents, sold by parents, runaways, travel with family, orphans sold from street or institutions
Online Resources
http://www.stopthetraffik.org
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091005/thrupkaew
http://www.ungift.org/
http://www.unodc.org/blueheart/
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/about/fact_human.html
The Polaris Project
All profits from the sale of this shirt go to The Polaris Project. Founded by two students at Brown University in 2002, the Polaris Project’s mission statement is “Polaris Project is committed to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery, and to strengthening the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach. ”
Please take a minute to learn more about them and their work. Visit The Polaris Project
The Poster
The poster is a 13×19 inch archival digital print on Moab Kayanta Matte Paper.
