Sex Trafficking
Kimberly A. McCabe
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million
victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking.
This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering,
defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex
trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the
military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution for the
sex-tourism industry. In response to the problem of sex trafficking,
many nations have either misunderstood the definition or failed to
comprehend the magnitude that have occurs within their borders. The
United Nations has defined "human trafficking" as "the recruitment,
transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by threat or use of force."
Similarly, the U.S. State Department's Trafficking Victims Protection
Act 2000 describes severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking
in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion,
or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained
18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the
use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to
involuntary servitude, peonage
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