Human Trafficking Market Value: $32 Billion
$10 billion is generated based on the initial sale of a person.
If the profits from the activities that is produced by the person who is trafficked is included, then the International Labour Organization (ILO) states that the market value of human trafficking stands at $32 billion, leading to a profit of $13,000 per trafficked person.
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Human Trafficking Profits in Italy
According to the 2005 EU Organised Crime Report, ” With regards to Italy, recent research estimates the annual number of victims at over 5,000 with annual profits from the sale and sexual exploitation of women ranging from EUR 380 to EUR 950 Million ($450 Million to $1.25 Billion).”
Source: EUROPOL, ” 2005 EU Organised Crime Report,” [...]
One to Two percent of all migrants from Moldova may be trafficked
According to an article in The New Yorker, “one to two percent of all Moldovan migrants may find themselves trafficked at some point.”
Source: William Finnegan, “The Countertraffickers,” New Yorker, May 5, 2008.
10,000 people in United States working under forced labor conditions
According to a study by Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley, an estimated 10,000 people are estimated to be working in forced labor conditions in the United States as a result of Human Trafficking.
Source: Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, [...]
18,000 to 20,000 human trafficking victims in the United States
United States Department of State, ” 2003 Trafficking in Persons Report,”.
4,000 women trafficked into United Kingdom
As of 2003, an estimated 4,000 women are believed to have been trafficked into the United Kingdom to work in the prostitution industry.
Source: “2012 Games sex trafficking fears,” BBC News, March 23, 2007.
420,000 women from Ukraine trafficked out of country
A 2005 study on the Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine stated that ” some 420,000 women were estimated to have been trafficked out of the country in the last few years alone.”
Source: Olga Pyshchulina, ” An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking,” Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives, [...]
Prostitution industry in Switzerland worth $2.65 billion
Source: “Swiss sex industry is thriving,” swissinfo, June 3, 2006.
Switzerland has between 1,500 to 3,000 human trafficking victims at any given time
Law enforcement officials in Switzerland estimate 1,500 to 3,000 victims of human trafficking may be in Switzerland at any time.
A majority of the women who are trafficked into the country are believed to be working the prostitution industry. According to published reports, the number of prostitutes in the city of Zurich has [...]
500,000 to 850,000 women trafficked out of Russia over 10 years
Between the years 1995-2005, an estimated 500,000 to 850,000 women were believed to have been trafficked out of the country. Human Trafficking Expert Louis Shelley writes ” many of these women, however, went abroad to work in a variety of difficult labor situations and only a much smaller share went directly into the sex [...]
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