Margrett’s Passion to stop Human Trafficking
Cornerstone Charities International will begin to take an active role in bringing awareness to the crime of human trafficking. We will be come alongside other organizations who are involved in the fight against human trafficking. Human trafficking is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking.
Slavery occurs when one person completely controls another person, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and they cannot walk away. Human trafficking, the modern-day slave trade, is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, enslaving more than 30 million people today. There are more slaves today than at any other time in human history. Vulnerable people and communities are targeted by recruiters and traffickers, and through deception, fraud and coercion are brought into slavery.
It’s sad but true: Here in this country, people are being bought, sold, and smuggled like modern-day slaves. They are trapped in lives of misery – often beaten, starved, and forced to work as prostitutes or to take grueling jobs as migrant, domestic, restaurant, or factory workers with little or no pay.
The crime of human trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually worldwide. Trafficking is profitable because people are resalable and reusable, and unlike drugs and arms traffickers, human traffickers can continue to exploit their victims over and over and over again. At least 100,000 children each year are caught up in the insidious world of child prostitution, with the average age of entrance being 12-14 years old. 99% of victims are never rescued.
Large sporting events such as the Super Bowl and March Madness attract sex traffickers who bring as many as 10,000 girls to the host city to meet the demand.
The definition of trafficking has 3 main components:
The action of trafficking; which means the recruitment , transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons.
The means of trafficking; which includes threat of or use of force, deception, coercion, abuse of power or position of vulnerability.
The purpose of trafficking; which is always exploitation, including the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.