* 12.3 million adults and children in forced labor, bonded labor, and forced prostitution around the world; 56 percent of these victims are women and girls
* $32 billion annual trade for the traffickers
* 49,105 victims identified worldwide, a 59 percent increase over the last reporting year (2008)
* Prevalence of trafficking victims in the world: 1.8 per 1,000 inhabitants (in Asia and the Pacific: 3 per 1,000)
* 4,166 successful trafficking prosecutions in 2009, a 40 percent increase over 2008
* Countries that have yet to convict a trafficker under laws in compliance with the Palermo Protocol: 62
* Countries without laws, policies, or regulations to prevent victims’ deportation: 104
* 23 countries received upgraded rankings in the 2010 TIP Report; 19 countries received downgraded rankings
* Two countries, the United States and Kiribati, are ranked for the first time in the 2010 TIP Report. source.
Related Reading:
Daughters: The Heartbreak of Human TraffickingThousands of young American girls have been abducted or lured from their normal lives and made into sex slaves. While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world -- Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and eastern Europe, for example -- few people know it happens in the United States.The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the average age being 11. UNICEF estimates that 2 million children per year are exploited in prostitution or pornography.
As many as 300,000 American youth may be at risk of commercial sexual exploitation at any time. Especially vulnerable are the homeless and runaways...one third of runaway youths--girls and boys both--will be lured into prostitution within 48 hours on the streets.
Synopsis:
Emotion in the house where Emma grew up was rare, so, when Emma disappeared it took a couple days before her aunt actually realized Emma was missing. Then a month went by, quickly. A little late to call the police. Aunt Evelyn knew of only one person who, maybe, would care Emma was missing, who, maybe, would do something about getting Emma back, and, who--as she recalled--would do anything for Emma:
Bailey Forbes. If Emma's mother--Aunt Evelyn's sister--hadn't died, Bailey would have married her and adopted Emma. Yes, that was the plan. Little sister was so in love with that man...but little sister did die, and that changed everything. Auntie Evelyn allowed Bailey and Emma to have continued contact for awhile, but it couldn't go on. No blood was involved, and Auntie Evelyn had never bought into the idea that blood wasn't necessary for true bonding.
But eleven years had passed. Would Bailey even remember Emma? Or care?
Stolen Woman: What Would You Risk to Rescue a Trafficked Friend, the breakout Christian suspense/romance novel on International Human Trafficking (Stolen Series)Human Trafficking…Asha knew nothing about it before meeting 16-year-old Rani, stolen from her home and forced into prostitution in Kolkata, India. Asha must help this girl escape, but Mark, a 3rd generation missionary, keeps warning her away from the red-light district and its workers. Will she ever discover why? And will they ever stop their intense arguments long enough to admit their even more intense feelings for one another?When Asha sneaks out one last time in a desperate attempt to rescue her friend, someone follows her through the night. Is freedom possible? Or will she, too, become one of the stolen?
Kimberly Rae has lived in Bangladesh, Kosovo, Uganda and Indonesia. She now writes from her home in Lenoir, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband and two young children.
Kimberly has been published over 100 times in books, magazines and periodicals.
REVIEWS
-- Kimberly takes the most horrific and outrageous crime in the world and handles it with clarity and boldness. Her insight into the world of human trafficking will amaze, shock and move you to action. This is a book you can't afford not to read.
Susie Shellenberger, Editor SUSIE Magazine, Author 40+ books
-- delightfully exciting book.
Shawne Ebersole, Association of Baptists, Bangladesh
--a beautiful story of hope amidst a landscape of brokenness.
Chad Salstom, Origin Coffee and Tea, where all profits go to rescuing the trafficked
-- as well written as Karen Kingsbury and others I have read! Wow! What a message. I couldn't put it down.
Kim Olachea, Educator, Seminar speaker
-- In Kimberly Rae's novel Stolen Woman, she juxtaposes the natural beauty of Kolkata, India, with the insidious evil slithering under darkness on street corners where women are sold to the highest bidder. Rae's message of hope and the education the novel provides should open our eyes to an issue which can no longer be ignored and needs everyone's efforts to eradicate.
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Trafficking in Persons in Latin America and the CaribbeanTrafficking in persons (TIP) for the purpose of exploitation is a lucrative criminal activity that is of major concern to the United States and the international community. According to the most recent U.S. State Department estimates, roughly 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year. If trafficking within countries is included in the total world figures, official U.S. estimates are that some 2 million to 4 million people are trafficked annually. While most trafficking victims still appear to originate from South and Southeast Asia or the former Soviet Union, human trafficking is also a growing problem in Latin America.Countries in Latin America serve as source, transit, and destination countries for trafficking victims. Latin America is a primary source region for people trafficked to the United States. As many as 17,500 are trafficked into the United States each year, according to State Department estimates. In FY2010, primary countries of origin for the 449 foreign trafficking victims certified as eligible to receive U.S. assistance included Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic (along with India and Thailand).
Since enactment of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA, P.L. 106-386), Congress has taken steps to address human trafficking by authorizing new programs and reauthorizing existing ones, appropriating funds, creating new criminal laws, and conducting oversight on the effectiveness and implications of U.S. anti-TIP policy. Most recently, the TVPA was reauthorized through FY2011 in the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-457). Obligations for U.S.-funded anti-TIP programs in Latin America totaled roughly $17.1 million in FY2010.
On June 27, 2011, the State Department issued its 11th annual, congressionally mandated report on human trafficking. The report categorizes countries into four “tiers” according to the government’s efforts to combat trafficking. Those countries that do not cooperate in the fight against trafficking (Tier 3) have been made subject to U.S. foreign assistance sanctions. While Cuba and Venezuela are the only Latin American countries ranked on Tier 3 in this year’s TIP report, seven other countries in the region—Barbados, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Bahamas—are on the Tier 2 Watch List. Unless those countries make significant progress in the next six months, they could receive a Tier 3 ranking in the 2012 report.
Activity on combating TIP has continued into the 112th Congress, particularly related to efforts to reauthorize the TVPA and oversee TIP programs and operations, including U.S.-funded programs in Latin America. Congress may also consider increasing funding for anti-TIP programs in the region, possibly through the Mérida Initiative for Mexico, the Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) or through other assistance programs. Congress is likely to monitor new trends in human trafficking in the region, such as the increasing involvement of Mexican drug trafficking organizations in TIP and the problem of child trafficking in Haiti, which has worsened since that country experienced a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. For more general information on human trafficking and a discussion of TIP-related legislation in the 112th Congress, see CRS Report RL34317, Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress, by Alison Siskin and Liana Sun Wyler.
In Our Backyard: A Christian Perspective on Human Trafficking in the United StatesIn Our Backyard invites the reader in to the lives of human trafficking victims, survivors and the traffickers themselves with true stories. These stories not only inform the reader, but also take them quickly through a well-documented crash course about human trafficking--better described as modern-day slavery--in the United States. A quick read which includes study questions for small groups, In Our Backyard could change your life and save lives around you.
Human TraffickingAcclaimed miniseries from The Lifetime cable channel deals with the horrifying phenomenon of human trafficking, or sexual slavery. Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland star as American government officials bent on exposing and stopping the phenomenon. Robert Carlyle (Full Monty, Trainspotting) stars as a criminal mastermind with his own trafficking network. All in all, this is a well paced thriller that tells the story of the harsh reality of sexual slavery.
