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What can YOU do about forced labor?

Submitted by jellobrain on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 04:29

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs maintains a list of goods and products likely produced by child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards.

66% of child trafficking victims are girls. (Save the Children, 2020)

Submitted by jellobrain on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 04:29

Often, girls around the world are forced to drop out of school or denied access to income-generating opportunities. The resulting social exclusion can trap girls in a cycle of extreme poverty, as well as increased vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation. (Save the Children, 2020)

Children are 4 times more likely to be trafficked for labor rather than sex.

Submitted by jellobrain on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 04:28

Children who are trafficked for labor purposes might be removed from their families and forced to perform domestic household services, or work in factories or agriculture.

Though millions of children are trafficked, there is a much larger number of children involved in child labor that is not considered trafficking.

27% of trafficking victims are children.

Submitted by jellobrain on Wed, 10/16/2024 - 04:27

The majority of human trafficking victims are involved in forced labor. Labor trafficking involves the use of fraud, coercion, or force in order to get a victim to provide labor or services. More than two-thirds of trafficking victims fall into this category, including more than 10 million adults and nearly 4 million children.

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Trafficker tricks

Job Recruiter Trick
Often traffickers will come to a village claiming to be recruiting employees for a large business or corporation. They promise job training, excellent salaries, and the ability to move into higher positions over time. The young women they lure – generally with their parents’ consent or coercion – leave the village with these traffickers and find that once they are in a big city they are sold to a brothel, or otherwise forced to engage in commercial sex work. If they resist, they risk being beaten, raped, or killed. Alone and in an unfamiliar place, there is nothing they can do.

The Marriage Dowry Trick

A young man will visit a village saying he is looking for a wife and that he is willing to accept a girl without a marriage dowry. The thought of getting a daughter married without having to pay the typically exorbitant dowry is too tempting for impoverished families. The girl is given to the man thinking she will be married and taken care of, but instead she is whisked away and forced into the sex trade.