Saturday, March 24, 2012

Human Trafficking - Havocscope Black Market

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Human Trafficking


Human Trafficking Black Market Value:
$32 Billion

Average Black Market: $38.09 Billion

*Human Trafficking Prices from around the world*

Source for the financial value of the human trafficking black market is available by clicking on the dollar amount listed above. Additional human trafficking statistics listed below.





Human Trafficking Statistics


Price paid by Malaysian men for marriage

Filed under: Asia, Human Trade
A human trafficking ring in Malaysia was charging men between $5,849 (18,000 Malaysian Ringgit) to $6,499 (20,000 Ringgit) for Vietnamese women to marry. The women were originally told that they would be working as waitresses before being held by the traffickers and sold off to the men with false documents.
Source:  Bernama, “Human trafficking syndicates using new tactics,” Boreno Post, March 24, 2012.

Price paid in the United States for sex with minor

Filed under: Human Trade, United States
In the U.S. State of Georgia, men were paying $600 to have sex with a 12 year old girl. The girl was being sold by a man who was baby sitting the girl while her mother was at work. The man filled the 12 year old girl with drugs and alcohol before having sex with her and selling her to other men.
An estimated 400 girls are sexually pollinated in the state of Georgia each month.
Source:  Rhonda Cook, “Man sentenced to more than 17 years for trafficking 12-year-old girl for sex,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 21, 2012.
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Human trafficking and prostituion rates in Bangladesh

Filed under: Asia, Human Trade, Prostitution
Human traffickers purchase young girls for $250 from their families and force them to work in the prostitution trade. Up to 90 percent of the prostitutes in Bangladesh take a steroid in order to appear older and be able to service more clients in a day, with most averaging around 15 clients a day.
The sex customers in Bangladesh pay $0.60 cents for each visit.
The girls pay $0.18 cents for their steroids.
Source:  Andrew Biraj, “Bangladesh’s “teenage” brothels hold dark steroid secret,” Reuters, March 19, 2012.

Online prostitution advertising

Filed under: Human Trade, Prostitution, United States
Research conducted by AIM Group found that Backpage.com accounts for over 70 percent of prostitution advertising on the Internet in the United States. The advertising generates $22 Million a year for the website.
When previous market leader Craigslist stopped advertising prostitution on its website, the total online ads for prostitution dropped by over 50 percent.
Source:  Nicholas Kristof, “Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods,” New York Times, March 17, 2012.

Prostitutiona and human trafficking arrests during Super Bowl 2012

Filed under: Human Trade, Prostitution, United States
The Attorney General for the state of Indiana reported that there were 68 prostitution arrests during Super Bowl 2012 in Indianapolis. Police also rescued two human trafficking victims during the weeks surrounding the Super Bowl.
Source:  Barb Berggoetz, “Super Bowl 2012: Volunteers played ‘key role’ in deterring human sex trafficking,” Indianapolis Star, March 12, 2012.

Rescued human trafficking victims in Australia

Filed under: Asia, Human Trade
Between 2004 and the start of 2012, authorities in Australia conducted 320 investigations into human trafficking activities within the country. Out of those investigations, 187 human trafficking victims were rescued.
Source:  David Weber, “AFP seeks to raise awareness of human trafficking,” ABC News (Australia), March 12, 2012.

Human trafficking and prostitution charges in Texas

Filed under: Human Trade, Prostitution, United States
Between September 1, 2011 and January 1, 2012, prosecutors in the U.S. State of Texas filled1,579 charges of prostitution and 5 charges of human trafficking across the state.
In the state capital of Austin, there were 181 prostitution arrests.
Source: Jazmine Ulloa, “State lacking data on human trafficking, officials say,” Austin American-Statesman, March 11, 2012.

Human trafficking rescues in China in 2011

Filed under: Asia, Human Trade
Police in China reported rescuing 8,660 children and 15,458 women from human trafficking activities in 2011.
3,200 human trafficking gangs were broken up by police in 2011.
In addition, Chinese police reported that over 2,000 children were abducted and sold for adoption during the year.
Source:  AFP, “China frees 24,000 abducted women, kids in 2011,” Google News, March 11, 2012.

Human trafficking price of girls in Mozambique

Filed under: Africa, Human Trade
Women and girls are reportedly being sold by human traffickers in Mozambique for as little as $2 to as high as $1,000.
Source:  Brent Swails, “Trafficking in Mozambique: ‘Every minute was the worst’,” CNN, The Freedom Project, February 20, 2012.

Calls to human trafficking tip line

Filed under: Human Trade
Between 2007 and the start of 2012, there were around 45,000 calls to a human trafficking tip line managed by the Polaris Project in Washington, D.C. Out of the number of calls, around 11,000 calls were either directly from victims of others who called to report suspected human trafficking activities. Over 2,000 cases were eventually forwarded to law enforcement agencies.
Source:  Associated Press, “Lincoln’s Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery,” Google News, February 17, 2012.
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