San Angelo Sunrise President Amber McNew was our speaker this morning, sharing her passion to combat Human Trafficking.
President McNew shared 11 Facts about Human Trafficking
- Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.
- Trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in may forms, including: forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography.
- According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves the sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
- There are approximately 20 to 30 million slaves in the world today.
- According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, of which 80% are female and half are children.
- The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14 years old.Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
- California harbors 3 of the FBI’s 13 highest child sex trafficking areas in the nation:Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
- The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives more calls from Texas than any other state in the U.S.15% of those calls are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.
- Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking).It reportedly generated a profit of $32 billion every year.Of that number, $14.4 billion is made in industrialized countries.
- The International Labour Organization estimates that women and girls represent the larges share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men.
Amber has made Human Trafficking one of her focus areas this year for our Club. Let's all support President McNew and help combat Human Trafficking.
