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Human Trafficking Statistics

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Human trafficking is the modern-day type of slavery which can involve some type of labor or commercial sex act that is obtain by the use of force, fraud or coercion. In United States and other countries every year, men, women, and children are trafficked and it is estimated that human trafficking generates billions of dollars of profit per years. Human trafficking is a known crime, but it is more of a hidden because of victims who rarely come forward to seek help. Furthermore, traffickers look for victims who may be going through something in their life like economic hardship, or a lack of social safety net or other reasons. For this part of the paper, I will talk about the statistics for human trafficking for the years 2005 – 2007.
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In 2006 161 countries were affected by human tracking, with most of the human trafficking happening West and Central Europe with eighty-four percent victims trafficked for sexual exploitation. According to the U.S. Department of States, Trafficking in Person Reports 2007, during the years 2004 through 2006 six hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand victims were reported. Furthermore, eight hundred thousand people were trafficked across international boarder as of the year of 2007. For these reason, thirty-two billion profits were generated by the human trafficking industry, with fifteen and a half billion is made in industrialized countries, according to the International Labor Organization or the ILO. In 2007, 1,379 foreign national victims of human tracking, out of that number eighty percent that were of women and girls were the international victims. Moreover, 1,318 T-visa.
However, even though Human Trafficking is a hidden crime across the world, between the years of 2001 to 2007, investigators and prosecutors have tried to open cases to help convicted these criminals of the heinous crimes against the victims of human trafficking. In a report from the Government Accountability Office, Human Trafficking of 2007, the FBI opened 751 trafficking cases with 185 convictions from the years 2001 to 2006. Moreover, the Crimes Against Children Unit opened 327 children trafficking case with 182 convictions from the years 2004 to

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