Human Trafficking within the U.S. by State
Very little research has been done to determine the extent of human trafficking on the state level. Several state-wide reports have been published however, due to data collection limitations the following statistics should be taken as baseline estimates only. These statistics are not definitive or comprehensive estimates.
California:
559 – Potential victims identified between Dec. 1, 2005 and March 12, 2007 by five CA Task Forces.
57 – Number of applications for continued presence submitted during the same time period.
o Source: CA Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force, Human Trafficking in California Final Report: October 2007.
Virginia:
43 – Number of trafficking victims served by 4 organizations in Northern Virginia.
o Source: Polaris Project, Fact Sheet on Human Trafficking.
Wisconsin:
200 – Number of identified cases of sex and labor trafficking.
85% – Proportion of victims in the 200 identified cases who were adults.
75% – Proportion of victims in the 200 identified cases who were victims of sex trafficking.
o Data obtained through a survey of over 1,300 sexual assault and domestic violence service providers, law enforcement and district attorney’s offices, with a 30% return rate.
o Source: WI Office of Justice Assistance, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Baseline Survey of Human Trafficking in Wisconsin: February 2008.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I ran across this & it made me sick!!!
Anyone who thinks that the word “slavery” is hyperbole when used to describe human trafficking today should meet Meena Khatun. She not only endured the unbearable, but has also shown that a slave trader’s greed sometimes is no match for a mother’s love.
Human trafficking is the big emerging human rights issue for the 21st century, but it’s an awful term, a convoluted euphemism. As Meena’s story underscores, the real issue is slavery.
Meena was kidnapped from her village in north India by a trafficker and eventually locked up in a 13-girl brothel in the town of Katihar. When she was perhaps 11 or 12 — she remembers only that it was well before she had begun to menstruate — the slaver locked her in a room with a white-haired customer who had bought her virginity. She cried and fought, so the mother and two sons who owned the brothel taught Meena a lesson.
“They beat me mercilessly, with a belt, sticks and iron rods,” Meena recalled. Still, Meena resisted customers, despite fresh beatings and threats to cut her in pieces.
Finally, the brothel owners forced her to drink alcohol until she was drunk. When she passed out, they gave her to a customer.
When she woke up, Meena finally accepted her fate as a prostitute. “I thought, ‘Now I am ruined,’ ” she remembered, “so I gave in.”
Meena thus joined the ranks of some 10 million children prostituted around the world — more are in India than in any other country. The brothels of India are the slave plantations of the 21st century.
Every night, Meena was forced to have sex with 10 to 25 customers. Meena’s owners also wanted to breed her, as is common in Indian brothels. One purpose is to have boys to be laborers and girls to be prostitutes, and a second is to have hostages to force the mother to cooperate.
So Meena soon became pregnant. The resulting baby girl, Naina, was taken from Meena after birth, as was a son, Vivek, who was born a year later.
The two children were raised mostly apart from Meena. Meena alerted the police to her children’s captivity (the police were uninterested), so her owners decided to kill her.
At that, Meena fled to a town several hours away and eventually married a pharmacist who protected her. Every few months, Meena would go back to the brothel and beg for her children.
She was never allowed inside, and the children were told that their mother had died. Still, Naina and Vivek regularly heard their mother’s shouts and pleas and occasionally caught glimpses of her. Other enslaved girls told them that she was indeed their mother.
When Naina turned about 12, the brothel owners prepared to sell her as well. At that Vivek, who was being forced to do the brothel’s laundry, protested vigorously. The owners beat Vivek, an extremely bright boy who was never allowed to go to school, but he continued to plead that his big sister not be sold. Finally, he escaped to search for his mother, in hopes that she could do something. Eventually, they found each other.
They received help from a terrific anti-trafficking organization called Apne Aap (www.apneaap.org), run by a former journalist named Ruchira Gupta. Ms. Gupta covered trafficking and was so horrified by what she found that she quit her job and devoted her life to fighting the brothel owners.
Ms. Gupta agitated for a police raid (apparently the first such raid on behalf of a trafficked mother ever in the state of Bihar) that rescued Naina last month. The girl, who is now about 13, is still recovering in a hospital from severe beatings and internal injuries.
The brothel is still operating, and the police have not arrested the main traffickers. But the brothel owners are threatening to kill Meena, her children and the Apne Aap staff, because they are potential witnesses in a criminal case against the traffickers. One Apne Aap staff member was stabbed a few days ago.
But whatever happens to Meena or Vivek, they are in the vanguard of a new global abolitionist movement. (Video of them and the brothels can be found on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground.)
This is an issue crying out for world leaders — and community groups — to seize and run with. President Bush has pressed the issue more than his predecessors, but he could do much more. If a little boy like Vivek can stand up to modern slavers, why can’t world leaders do the same?
Apirl 2007
Anyone who thinks that the word “slavery” is hyperbole when used to describe human trafficking today should meet Meena Khatun. She not only endured the unbearable, but has also shown that a slave trader’s greed sometimes is no match for a mother’s love.
Human trafficking is the big emerging human rights issue for the 21st century, but it’s an awful term, a convoluted euphemism. As Meena’s story underscores, the real issue is slavery.
Meena was kidnapped from her village in north India by a trafficker and eventually locked up in a 13-girl brothel in the town of Katihar. When she was perhaps 11 or 12 — she remembers only that it was well before she had begun to menstruate — the slaver locked her in a room with a white-haired customer who had bought her virginity. She cried and fought, so the mother and two sons who owned the brothel taught Meena a lesson.
“They beat me mercilessly, with a belt, sticks and iron rods,” Meena recalled. Still, Meena resisted customers, despite fresh beatings and threats to cut her in pieces.
Finally, the brothel owners forced her to drink alcohol until she was drunk. When she passed out, they gave her to a customer.
When she woke up, Meena finally accepted her fate as a prostitute. “I thought, ‘Now I am ruined,’ ” she remembered, “so I gave in.”
Meena thus joined the ranks of some 10 million children prostituted around the world — more are in India than in any other country. The brothels of India are the slave plantations of the 21st century.
Every night, Meena was forced to have sex with 10 to 25 customers. Meena’s owners also wanted to breed her, as is common in Indian brothels. One purpose is to have boys to be laborers and girls to be prostitutes, and a second is to have hostages to force the mother to cooperate.
So Meena soon became pregnant. The resulting baby girl, Naina, was taken from Meena after birth, as was a son, Vivek, who was born a year later.
The two children were raised mostly apart from Meena. Meena alerted the police to her children’s captivity (the police were uninterested), so her owners decided to kill her.
At that, Meena fled to a town several hours away and eventually married a pharmacist who protected her. Every few months, Meena would go back to the brothel and beg for her children.
She was never allowed inside, and the children were told that their mother had died. Still, Naina and Vivek regularly heard their mother’s shouts and pleas and occasionally caught glimpses of her. Other enslaved girls told them that she was indeed their mother.
When Naina turned about 12, the brothel owners prepared to sell her as well. At that Vivek, who was being forced to do the brothel’s laundry, protested vigorously. The owners beat Vivek, an extremely bright boy who was never allowed to go to school, but he continued to plead that his big sister not be sold. Finally, he escaped to search for his mother, in hopes that she could do something. Eventually, they found each other.
They received help from a terrific anti-trafficking organization called Apne Aap (www.apneaap.org), run by a former journalist named Ruchira Gupta. Ms. Gupta covered trafficking and was so horrified by what she found that she quit her job and devoted her life to fighting the brothel owners.
Ms. Gupta agitated for a police raid (apparently the first such raid on behalf of a trafficked mother ever in the state of Bihar) that rescued Naina last month. The girl, who is now about 13, is still recovering in a hospital from severe beatings and internal injuries.
The brothel is still operating, and the police have not arrested the main traffickers. But the brothel owners are threatening to kill Meena, her children and the Apne Aap staff, because they are potential witnesses in a criminal case against the traffickers. One Apne Aap staff member was stabbed a few days ago.
But whatever happens to Meena or Vivek, they are in the vanguard of a new global abolitionist movement. (Video of them and the brothels can be found on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground.)
This is an issue crying out for world leaders — and community groups — to seize and run with. President Bush has pressed the issue more than his predecessors, but he could do much more. If a little boy like Vivek can stand up to modern slavers, why can’t world leaders do the same?
Apirl 2007
Monday, November 23, 2009
Our Up Coming Generation??
Missions in our children!!!
Our up coming generation!
6.75 billion people in the world
854million are hungry
Right now as you are reading this warm, cozy, and dry
854 million people around the word belly’s hurt so bad because they are starving.
30,000 children die every day from poverty! They die quietly in some of the poorest villages, removed form the conscience of the world!
That makes 210,000 children a week 11million a year and most of them are under 5yr of age.
We can do something about that! We can not keep doing what we are doing now. Witch is nothing, and stand before God on judgment day. The Bible say to care for the widows and their children!!
I’m not trying to get you to partner with this or that, you can do what you want. But I want to get you to understand we gotta do SOMETHING!
Snuggling has always be a big part crime, people smuggle everything for drugs to knifes. But did you know there is a new form or smuggling?
Do you know one of the LARGEST smuggling businesses in the world generates 10 to 12 billion dollars each year. Sex slavery! Every minute 2 children are being prepared for a sexual exploitation. Children as young as 5yrs old. The demand for younger children is increasing. The average age for a child forced to service men is 14. As many as 40 men a day. It has become the second largest smuggling industry in the world. Little girls and boys are in more demand that weapons. Do you know prostitution isn’t always a choice! With the demand for children growing pimps and pornographers will meet those demands by ANY means necessary. The internet provides the buyers with variety of choices. It could be your daughter or son. When did children become commodities? To meet the demands child sex tours are increasing. The highest estimated numbers of child prostitutes are in India, brazil, and AMERICA! Right now 2 children are being prepared for sexual slavery! One child suffering is to many!
We can not put up with this anymore!!!
I’m Not going to take it any more! Not going to sit by and do nothing while people starve to death and kids lives are ruined! I’m breathing I’m walking around there’s not a other thing I need. I am going to spend my time and my money to relieve human suffering! Because there is nothing that is more important than that!! Jesus dead so people could be free!! And we are now free those who know him! We are free and it is our god give obligation to get over our sweet little selves and do something for somebody else!!!!
There is a lot more going on beside you are your 4 little walls! WE need to start praying and asking God to show us some creative way you can do something to make a difference! Don’t ever let the devil lye to you again telling you that just a little will not help! THAT IS NOT TRUE!
Lets get a new way to live ~ “ form now on God I am going to meet needs unless you tell me not to!”
This needs to be the way we live!
Its time to change the way we look at the world. To turn our eyes away form our selves. And to the lives of others. The earth is home to 6.75billion people. 1billion of which survive in less that $1 a day. 3.2 billion people survive on a mere $2 a day. That’s 50% of you, Or every other person you see. With out money, food, water, medical care, and shelter. Children are the most at risk. This is really happening. Imagine that your child is hungry. But you have no money for food. And there is nothing you can do about the pain in their eyes. As I read this 854 million people around the world are wounding where their next meal will come. Imagine you have a cold but no medicine. A heart attack but no hospital. With out the proper treatment childhood illnesses like diarrhea and the common cold become killers of millions. As I read this 2.2 billion people around the world don’t have access to essential medicines. Imagine waking up thirsty, your mouth is so dry it hurts your throat to swallow. But you can’t turn on the faucet to get water. You have to walk up to 6hrs a day carrying a heavy container through the roughest terrain. And the water you do find is so dirty that drinking it could be fatal. As I read this 1.1 billion people are living with out access to safe drinking water. Imagine a cold bitter winter night. The harsh wind stings our nostrils, you can’t move your toes anymore. But there is nowhere for you to go. As I read this 1.6 billion people around the world are living with out adequate shelter or none at all. Take a moment to think about this! These are real people just like you! Its time for a revolution in your thinking! An understanding that the best way to help ourselves is to reach out and do what we can for others. Where our greatest joy, comes form the smiles on someone else’s face. Its time for LOVE to take stand! Don’t close your eyes, love finds a way .
Indifference make an excuse but love finds away!
Mesa County
2,759 cases called in
1,406 cases made
188 kids taken out of their homes
100 of he returned
59 on foster care and adopted
16 went with family
Its for us to take a stand and change the live of child around the world! This is our up coming generation and our God give obligation!
Our up coming generation!
6.75 billion people in the world
854million are hungry
Right now as you are reading this warm, cozy, and dry
854 million people around the word belly’s hurt so bad because they are starving.
30,000 children die every day from poverty! They die quietly in some of the poorest villages, removed form the conscience of the world!
That makes 210,000 children a week 11million a year and most of them are under 5yr of age.
We can do something about that! We can not keep doing what we are doing now. Witch is nothing, and stand before God on judgment day. The Bible say to care for the widows and their children!!
I’m not trying to get you to partner with this or that, you can do what you want. But I want to get you to understand we gotta do SOMETHING!
Snuggling has always be a big part crime, people smuggle everything for drugs to knifes. But did you know there is a new form or smuggling?
Do you know one of the LARGEST smuggling businesses in the world generates 10 to 12 billion dollars each year. Sex slavery! Every minute 2 children are being prepared for a sexual exploitation. Children as young as 5yrs old. The demand for younger children is increasing. The average age for a child forced to service men is 14. As many as 40 men a day. It has become the second largest smuggling industry in the world. Little girls and boys are in more demand that weapons. Do you know prostitution isn’t always a choice! With the demand for children growing pimps and pornographers will meet those demands by ANY means necessary. The internet provides the buyers with variety of choices. It could be your daughter or son. When did children become commodities? To meet the demands child sex tours are increasing. The highest estimated numbers of child prostitutes are in India, brazil, and AMERICA! Right now 2 children are being prepared for sexual slavery! One child suffering is to many!
We can not put up with this anymore!!!
I’m Not going to take it any more! Not going to sit by and do nothing while people starve to death and kids lives are ruined! I’m breathing I’m walking around there’s not a other thing I need. I am going to spend my time and my money to relieve human suffering! Because there is nothing that is more important than that!! Jesus dead so people could be free!! And we are now free those who know him! We are free and it is our god give obligation to get over our sweet little selves and do something for somebody else!!!!
There is a lot more going on beside you are your 4 little walls! WE need to start praying and asking God to show us some creative way you can do something to make a difference! Don’t ever let the devil lye to you again telling you that just a little will not help! THAT IS NOT TRUE!
Lets get a new way to live ~ “ form now on God I am going to meet needs unless you tell me not to!”
This needs to be the way we live!
Its time to change the way we look at the world. To turn our eyes away form our selves. And to the lives of others. The earth is home to 6.75billion people. 1billion of which survive in less that $1 a day. 3.2 billion people survive on a mere $2 a day. That’s 50% of you, Or every other person you see. With out money, food, water, medical care, and shelter. Children are the most at risk. This is really happening. Imagine that your child is hungry. But you have no money for food. And there is nothing you can do about the pain in their eyes. As I read this 854 million people around the world are wounding where their next meal will come. Imagine you have a cold but no medicine. A heart attack but no hospital. With out the proper treatment childhood illnesses like diarrhea and the common cold become killers of millions. As I read this 2.2 billion people around the world don’t have access to essential medicines. Imagine waking up thirsty, your mouth is so dry it hurts your throat to swallow. But you can’t turn on the faucet to get water. You have to walk up to 6hrs a day carrying a heavy container through the roughest terrain. And the water you do find is so dirty that drinking it could be fatal. As I read this 1.1 billion people are living with out access to safe drinking water. Imagine a cold bitter winter night. The harsh wind stings our nostrils, you can’t move your toes anymore. But there is nowhere for you to go. As I read this 1.6 billion people around the world are living with out adequate shelter or none at all. Take a moment to think about this! These are real people just like you! Its time for a revolution in your thinking! An understanding that the best way to help ourselves is to reach out and do what we can for others. Where our greatest joy, comes form the smiles on someone else’s face. Its time for LOVE to take stand! Don’t close your eyes, love finds a way .
Indifference make an excuse but love finds away!
Mesa County
2,759 cases called in
1,406 cases made
188 kids taken out of their homes
100 of he returned
59 on foster care and adopted
16 went with family
Its for us to take a stand and change the live of child around the world! This is our up coming generation and our God give obligation!
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