Human Trafficking: Raising Awareness Around Modern-Day Slavery

In 2019, the Polaris Project, operator of the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, documented 11,500 cases of reported human trafficking, a 20% increase over the previous year and likely only a fraction of the number of people globally trapped in human trafficking situations. On a global scale, the International Labour Organization estimated in 2016 that there were 40.3 million victims of human trafficking.

The Department of Homeland Security has designated the month of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the U.S., with Jan. 11 marking National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. For the DHS, the goal was to educate the public, law enforcement and other parties on what human trafficking is and how to recognize the signs of it occurring.

What is Human Trafficking?

Polaris Project defines human trafficking as the “use of force, fraud or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor against their will.” Perpetrators or traffickers employ these tactics on victims for commercial sex acts or labor or services.

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