1. Sex Trafficking and Sex Slavery
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2. Slavery
What does the term “slavery” mean?
What does it look like?

3. Slavery Officially abolished worldwide by the 1926 Slavery Convention
However, still exists in many forms
forced labor
child marriage
debt bondage
commercial sexual slavery
Modern slaves can be garment workers, domestic help, agricultural workers, and prostitutes

4. Modern Slavery
Today there are at least 27 million adults and children living and working as slaves or in slave-like conditions
More than any other time in human history

5. Human Trafficking What does the term “human trafficking” mean?
What does it look like?

6. Human Trafficking
The act of forcing an adult or child into slavery for financial or personal profit
Involves recruiting, transporting, transferring, harbouring, or receiving a person through the use of force, intimidation, trickery, or other means for the purpose of exploiting them

7. Human Trafficking
Between 800,000 and 4 million people are sold into slavery each year
The global human trafficking industry is valued at $31.6 billion a year
#2 criminal industry behind drug trafficking ($32.1 billion a year)

8. Human Trafficking
Sexual exploitation is the most widespread form of human trafficking, making up 79% of all recorded human trafficking cases
20% victims of human trafficking are children
70-80% of victims are women

9. Where does it occur?
Trafficking affects all regions and the majority of countries in the world
Traffickers primarily target women and girls because they are disproportionately affected by poverty and discrimination, factors that impede their access to employment, educational opportunities, and other resources

10. Human Trafficking Worldwide

11. Global Stats 2.3 million sex slaves in India 200,000 in eastern Europe
200,000 in Bangladesh
142,000 in Malaysia
150,000 non-Japanese women in Japan

12. More stats
About 700 people are trafficked into Canada for sex slavery/the sex trade
In the Ukraine, around 117,000 a year are made victims of human trafficking

13. Slavery in the United States
There number of people newly enslaved in the Unites States every year is roughly equal to the number of homicides (just under 15,000)
Which do you hear about more?
Which gets more priority from law enforcement?

14. Questions
“One of the global paradoxes is that countries with the most conservative sexual mores tend to have the most prostitution.”
Nicholas Kristof, Half The Sky
Why do you think that is? What value do women have in these societies? What examples from the film illustrate this?