Jada Pinkett uncovers the horrific realities of modern-era slavery in the U.S., where children are kidnapped and exploited by traffickers.

CNN Special Report-Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking.

Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, including sexual slavery. Sex trafficking has two aspects of supply and demand. The sex exploitation is based on the interaction between the trafficker selling a victim to customers to perform sexual services. Sex trafficking crimes are defined in three ways: acquisition, movement, and exploitation, and includes child sex tourism, domestic minor sex trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation of children, and prostitution. Sex trafficking is one of the biggest criminal businesses and is "the fastest growing criminal industry in the world."

According to the International Labor Organization, there are 20.9 million people subjected to forced labor, and 22% (4.5 million) who are victims of forced sexual exploitation. However, due to the covertness of sex trafficking, obtaining accurate, reliable statistics is difficult for researchers.

Most victims find themselves in coercive or abusive situations from which escape is both difficult and dangerous. Locations where this practice occurs span the globe and reflect an intricate web between nations, making it very difficult to construct viable solutions to this human rights problem.

National Human Trafficking Hotline

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/

Resources | Polaris

https://polarisproject.org/resources

Resources Available for Victims | Homeland Security

https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/resources-available-victims

Body Sourced from: ConstantlySporadic

https://youtu.be/oXjxeQuhdAs

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