Human Trafficking
Trafficking is a crime that involves exploiting a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations define human trafficking as:
a) Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
b) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)).
The LifeStory website (video on right) is dedicated to the girls and women currently struggling to leave the Life, to those who have successfully done so despite enormous challenges, and to their loved ones, advocates and dedicated service providers.
*EHN members and alumni are part of this video series.
Trafficking Truths
With so much misinformation about human trafficking, to find out more about trafficking truths turn to Empower Her Network Advisory Network member, Survivor Leader, and Founder and Director of RBI, Rebecca Bender.
Listen to the Trafficking Truths trailer below:
TRAFFICKING RESOURCES
Empower Her Network works with survivors years after their trafficking experience.
Check out Rachel Thomas, Empower Her Network board member, in helping to educate teens to keep them safe.
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