POLARIS - NATIONAL HOTLINE - ASK FOR HELP or REPORT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

POLARIS IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND DISRUPT SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORKS.

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Here are some myths: That it's always a violent crime. (Though I tend to think what happens to the enslaved person is a violence.) That all human trafficking involves commercial sex. (It can be other forms of slave labor.) THAT TRAFFICKERS TARGET VICTIMS THEY DON'T KNOW. (In other words the trafficer does know the person intended to be enslaved.)

TO GET HELP, REPORT A TIP ABOUT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FIND SERVICE REFERRALS FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING, OR REQUEST TRAINING OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE link here.

THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE

888-373-7888

Or TEXT "BeFree" (233733) via live chat or email.  

Services are available toll free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Readers, you know that I stand for choice, and choice made with knowledge and understanding. 

Those who have little to no choice in life are of great concern to me.  In these Blog Posts, you read about so many people who had little to no choice because of the times they lived in as women, or their class or status or poverty.  Well, today there are very many people who are SLAVES in this world, and in particular people who are SEX TRAFFICKED, often young teenage girls, some runaways, some snatched.

In choosing charities that I think you should know about, perhaps donate or volunteer for, POLARIS PROJECT seems to be well regarded and INTERNATIONAL. 

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National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline 1 (888) 373-7888  (United States)

FROM THEIR SITE:

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery -- a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to 20.9 million people around the world. And no matter where you live, chances are it's happening nearby. From the girl forced into prostitution at a truck stop, to the man discovered in a restaurant kitchen, stripped of his passport and held against his will. All trafficking victims share one essential experience: the loss of freedom.

Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking—regardless of whether or not the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion.
The situations that sex trafficking victims face vary dramatically. Many victims become romantically involved with someone who then forces or manipulates them into prostitution. Others are lured in with false promises of a job, such as modeling or dancing. Some are forced to sell sex by their parents or other family members. They may be involved in a trafficking situation for a few days or weeks, or may remain in the same trafficking situation for years.

Victims of sex trafficking can be U.S. citizens, foreign nationals, women, men, children, and LGBTQ individuals. Vulnerable populations are frequently targeted by traffickers, including runaway and homeless youth, as well as victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, war, or social discrimination.

Sex trafficking occurs in a range of venues including fake massage businesses, via online ads or escort services, in residential brothels, on the street or at truck stops, or at hotels and motels...

POLARIS PROJECT : THERE ARE MORE SEX SLAVES NOW THAN THERE WERE SLAVES BROUGHT FROM AFRICA

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From the site:

'Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others. As defined under U.S. federal law, victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults age 18 or over who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into different forms of "labor or services," such as domestic workers held in a home, or farm-workers forced to labor against their will. The factors that each of these situations have in common are elements of force, fraud, or coercion that are used to control people.  Then, that control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or labor or services.  Numerous people in the field have summed up the concept of human trafficking as "compelled service."  Every year, human traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits by victimizing millions of people around the world, and here in the United States.  Human trafficking is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world.'


National Human Trafficking Resource Center

 

1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233733).

 

The National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) is a national, toll-free hotline, available to answer calls and texts from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

 

The NHTRC is a program of Polaris Project, a non-profit, non-governmental organization working exclusively on the issue of human trafficking. We are not a government entity, law enforcement or an immigration authority.