Did You Know…
It is estimated that 2 million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade each year. One UNICEF report estimates that India supplied 50% of the children worldwide entering into the sex trade.
It is estimated that a child goes missing in India every 8 minutes. Young girls fetch the highest prices in the city brothels.
The BBC’s Natalia Antelava spoke to an unnamed trafficker in Kolkata who said: “I traffic 150 to 200 girls a year, (and demand is rising) starting from age 10, 11 and older, up to 16, 17, making around 1,000 dollars per child.”
The Nation-wide Impact of Sex Trafficking
Books and websites
- Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress Syndrome, by Melissa Farley
- Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders, by Christine A. Courtois PhD
- Handbook of Stress, Trauma, and the Family, by Don R. Catherall
- Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People: An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice, by Susan Barton
- The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
- Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy, by John Bowe
Recommended Reading
PDF’s
- 2018 – Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
- 2017 – Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
- 2016 – Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
- 2015 – Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
- 2014 – Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
- Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States
- Human Trafficking in India, Stanford University, March 12, 2010
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Films on Trafficking
Documentaries
- 2011 – Nefarious
- 2013 – Tricked
- 2014 – Sold
- 2017 – Trafficked