Human Trafficking is horrendous evil which exploits human beings. Individuals are taken against their will and forced into forced labor, marriage, prostitution, and organ removal. Human trafficking is a type of “modern day slavery”.
Facts
- It’s estimated that internationally there are between 50 million people in modern slavery today. 1
- Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.2
- Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%.2
- Estimates suggest that about 50,000 people are trafficked into the US each year, most often from Mexico and the Philippines.2
- In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the US were sex trafficking cases involving only children.2
- Reports indicate that a large number of child sex trafficking survivors in the US were at one time in the foster care system.2
- Advocates report a growing trend of traffickers using online social media platforms to recruit and advertise targets of human trafficking.2
- Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage. International Labor Organization. Accessed October 3, 2023. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—ipec/documents/publication/wcms_854733.pdf
- 11 FACTS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING. DoSomething.Org. Accessed October 3, 2023. https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-human-trafficking
Prayer Points
- Pray that human traffickers would be caught and their victims would be rescued.
- Pray that God would change the hearts of those in the human trafficking industry. That their eyes would be opened to their sin and that they would repent from their evil actions and turn to God in repentance.
- Pray that God would raise up individuals to fight human trafficking in areas of prevention, victim rescue, victim rehabilitation, awareness and legal representation.
- Pray that those who are in power that seek to protect the human trafficking industry would have their efforts thwarted.
- Pray that God would open the eyes of those individuals who are purchasing services in which human beings are being exploited. Pray that they would be disgusted by their sinful appetites and that they would turn to Christ for forgiveness and healing.
- Pray that God would provide the financial resources to combat human trafficking.
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