1. New Hope Presbytery Human Trafficking Roundtable

2. Human Trafficking Numbers
21 million people enslaved across the globe
33% of victims are children
More than 100,000 victims in US
Annual income of $150 billion (369% increase since 2009)
FASTEST GROWING CRIMINAL INDUSTRY IN THE WORLD

3. Human Trafficking Definition
Human Trafficking occurs when a person is recruited, harbored, transported, obtained, or maintained by means of force, fraud, threats, or coercion, for purposes of involuntary labor, debt bondage, or sexual services

4. MODERN SLAVERY
FORCED LABOR
SEX TRAFFICKING

5. Forced Labor
Someone is compelled to work by means of force, deception, psychological coercion, or abuse of the legal system
Once a person’s labor is exploited this way, their previous consent to work no longer matters – the employer is now a trafficker and the employee is a trafficking victim
Female victims of forced or bonded labor – especially women and girls in domestic servitude – are often sexually exploited also

6. Sex Trafficking
Forcing or entrapping someone into the commercial sex trade, which includes:
Prostitution
Stripping
All forms of pornography

7. Safe Harbor Law
ANYTIME a person less than 18 years of age is involved in a commercial sex act, that person – by law – is a victim of trafficking, and proving force, fraud, or coercion is not necessary - NO EXCEPTIONS

8. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Between 100,000 and 300,000 children are trafficked yearly in the US
Using lowest estimate, roughly 240 purchases of a minor for commercial sex occur each day in NORTH CAROLINA

9. National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
800% increase in the number of minors that were prostituted with the aid of technology over the last 2 years

10. Fundamental Framework Used Around the World to Combat Human Trafficking
PREVENTION
PROTECTION
PROSECUTION

11. Add 4th “P”
Prevention
Protection
Prosecution
PARTNERSHIP

12. National and International Anti-trafficking Organizations
US Department of State Trafficking in Persons Office (TIP)
Shared Hope International
Polaris

13. State Anti-trafficking Organizations
North Carolina Coalition Against Human Trafficking (NCCAHT)
North Carolina Stop Human Trafficking
NC Human Trafficking Commission

14. Local Anti-trafficking Organizations
Partners Against Trafficking Humans in NC
Project FIGHT of the Salvation Army

15. Safe Houses for Trafficking Survivors
Hope House – near Charlotte
Anchor House – near Greenville, NC

16. What Can I Do? Learn the indicators of human trafficking
Be well-informed
Get human trafficking awareness training
Check out the resources available
Be a conscientious and informed consumer

17. What Can I Do? (continued)
Contact local, state, and federal representatives
Find out how to support a local victim services organization
Encourage schools to implement human trafficking education required by Session Law
Encourage a student to do a research paper on the topic
PRAY…

18. Resource Packet Today’s PowerPoint Definitions and Statistics
What Can I Do?
Minute for Mission and Liturgical Resources
Linda Smith Article and Petition Information
Other Resource Bibliography

19. National Human Trafficking Center Hotline 1-888-373-7888

20. “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”
William Wilberforce – in his 1789 speech before Parliament to abolish the British Slave trade

21. Questions? Responses?

22. Closing Prayer
For you, Child of God, Jesus Christ came into the world, the Word of God made flesh. For you he entered the shadow of Gethsemane and suffered the horror of Calvary. For you he uttered the cry, “It is finished!”

23. Closing Prayer
For you he triumphed over death, rose in newness of life, and ascended to rule over all. All of this was done for you, though you may not know it yet.

24. Closing Prayer
But we will pray for you and proclaim this good news on your behalf until it becomes your own. In this way the promise of the gospel is fulfilled: “We love because God loved us first.”