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We Focus on Teens Human Rights. What Is Trafficking in Persons?
Over the past 15 years, “trafficking in persons” and “human trafficking” have been used interchangeably as umbrella terms for activities involved when someone obtains or holds a person in compelled service.
The United States government considers trafficking in persons to include all of the criminal conduct involved in holding someone in compelled service. It is a crime involving the exploitation of someone for the purposes of compelled labor or a commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Where a person younger than 18 is induced to perform a commercial sex act, however, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion.
Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as amended, and consistent with the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), individuals may be trafficking victims regardless of whether they once consented, participated in a crime as a direct result of being trafficked, were transported into the exploitative situation, or were simply born into a state of servitude. Despite a term that seems to connote movement, at the heart of the phenomenon of trafficking in persons are the many forms of compelled service, not the activities involved in international transportation.
TEEN TRAFFICKING when an adult engages in a commercial sex act, such as prostitution, as the result of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion, or any combination of such means, that person is a victim of trafficking. Under such circumstances, perpetrators involved in recruiting, harboring, enticing, transporting, providing, obtaining, or maintaining a person for that purpose are guilty of sex trafficking of an adult. Sex trafficking also may occur within debt bondage, as individuals are forced to continue in prostitution through the use of unlawful “debt,” purportedly incurred through their transportation, recruitment, or even their crude “sale”— which exploiters insist they must pay off before they can be free. An adult’s consent to participate in prostitution is not legally determinative: if one is thereafter held in service through psychological manipulation or physical force, he or she is a trafficking victim and should receive benefits outlined in the Palermo Protocol and applicable domestic laws.
Child Sex Trafficking
When a child (under 18 years of age) is recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, or maintained to perform a commercial sex act, proving force, fraud, or coercion is not necessary for the offense to be characterized as human trafficking. There are no exceptions to this rule: no cultural or socioeconomic rationalizations alter the fact that children who are prostituted are trafficking victims. The use of children in the commercial sex trade is prohibited both under U.S. law and by statute in most countries around the world. Sex trafficking has devastating consequences for minors, including long-lasting physical and psychological trauma, disease (including HIV/AIDS), drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy, malnutrition, social ostracism, and even death.
Statistics - 25% of Homeless Kids Have Been Victim.
57% of homeless kids spend at least one day every month without food.
Every Year, More Than 2 Million Kids in America Will Face a Period of Homelessness. Behind the face of every homeless young person is another heartbreaking story – a teenage boy abused by his alcoholic parent, a pregnant girl rejected by her guardian, or a teenager trying to escape gang membership or a life of forced prostitution.
In case after case, the main cause of youth homelessness is physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse from parents or guardians.
In addition to these heartbreaking statistics, a study issued by the Covenant House Institute revealed that: that's why Covenant House works day and night to provide shelter and support for kids who have endured lives of abuse, neglect, and homelessness. In 2013, Covenant House provided services to more than 56,000 of these kids. Our Residential and Community Service Center programs cared for 27,889 homeless kids, and Covenant House Street Outreach teams served an additional 28,221 homeless and at-risk youth on the streets in the 21 cities where Covenant House operates.
*In the United States, as many as 20,000 kids are forced into prostitution by human trafficking networks every year.
*According to a study of youth in shelters, nearly 50% reported intense conflict or physical harm by a family member as a major contributing factor to their homelessness.
*More than 25% of former foster children become homeless within two to four years of leaving the system.
*50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within six months because they are unprepared to live independently and have limited education and no social support.
*Almost 40% of the homeless in the United States are under 18.
-57% of homeless kids spend at least one day every month without food.
-41% of Covenant House kids witnessed acts of violence in their homes.
-36% of Covenant House kids indicated that someone in their family used drugs regularly.
-19% of Covenant House kids reported being beaten with an object.
-19% of Covenant House kids reported that they have endured sexual abuse.
-15% of Covenant House kids reported that someone close to them had been murdered.
Over the past 15 years, “trafficking in persons” and “human trafficking” have been used interchangeably as umbrella terms for activities involved when someone obtains or holds a person in compelled service.
The United States government considers trafficking in persons to include all of the criminal conduct involved in holding someone in compelled service. It is a crime involving the exploitation of someone for the purposes of compelled labor or a commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Where a person younger than 18 is induced to perform a commercial sex act, however, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion.
Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as amended, and consistent with the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), individuals may be trafficking victims regardless of whether they once consented, participated in a crime as a direct result of being trafficked, were transported into the exploitative situation, or were simply born into a state of servitude. Despite a term that seems to connote movement, at the heart of the phenomenon of trafficking in persons are the many forms of compelled service, not the activities involved in international transportation.
TEEN TRAFFICKING when an adult engages in a commercial sex act, such as prostitution, as the result of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion, or any combination of such means, that person is a victim of trafficking. Under such circumstances, perpetrators involved in recruiting, harboring, enticing, transporting, providing, obtaining, or maintaining a person for that purpose are guilty of sex trafficking of an adult. Sex trafficking also may occur within debt bondage, as individuals are forced to continue in prostitution through the use of unlawful “debt,” purportedly incurred through their transportation, recruitment, or even their crude “sale”— which exploiters insist they must pay off before they can be free. An adult’s consent to participate in prostitution is not legally determinative: if one is thereafter held in service through psychological manipulation or physical force, he or she is a trafficking victim and should receive benefits outlined in the Palermo Protocol and applicable domestic laws.
Child Sex Trafficking
When a child (under 18 years of age) is recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, or maintained to perform a commercial sex act, proving force, fraud, or coercion is not necessary for the offense to be characterized as human trafficking. There are no exceptions to this rule: no cultural or socioeconomic rationalizations alter the fact that children who are prostituted are trafficking victims. The use of children in the commercial sex trade is prohibited both under U.S. law and by statute in most countries around the world. Sex trafficking has devastating consequences for minors, including long-lasting physical and psychological trauma, disease (including HIV/AIDS), drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy, malnutrition, social ostracism, and even death.
Statistics - 25% of Homeless Kids Have Been Victim.
57% of homeless kids spend at least one day every month without food.
Every Year, More Than 2 Million Kids in America Will Face a Period of Homelessness. Behind the face of every homeless young person is another heartbreaking story – a teenage boy abused by his alcoholic parent, a pregnant girl rejected by her guardian, or a teenager trying to escape gang membership or a life of forced prostitution.
In case after case, the main cause of youth homelessness is physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse from parents or guardians.
In addition to these heartbreaking statistics, a study issued by the Covenant House Institute revealed that: that's why Covenant House works day and night to provide shelter and support for kids who have endured lives of abuse, neglect, and homelessness. In 2013, Covenant House provided services to more than 56,000 of these kids. Our Residential and Community Service Center programs cared for 27,889 homeless kids, and Covenant House Street Outreach teams served an additional 28,221 homeless and at-risk youth on the streets in the 21 cities where Covenant House operates.
*In the United States, as many as 20,000 kids are forced into prostitution by human trafficking networks every year.
*According to a study of youth in shelters, nearly 50% reported intense conflict or physical harm by a family member as a major contributing factor to their homelessness.
*More than 25% of former foster children become homeless within two to four years of leaving the system.
*50% of adolescents aging out of foster care and juvenile justice systems will be homeless within six months because they are unprepared to live independently and have limited education and no social support.
*Almost 40% of the homeless in the United States are under 18.
-57% of homeless kids spend at least one day every month without food.
-41% of Covenant House kids witnessed acts of violence in their homes.
-36% of Covenant House kids indicated that someone in their family used drugs regularly.
-19% of Covenant House kids reported being beaten with an object.
-19% of Covenant House kids reported that they have endured sexual abuse.
-15% of Covenant House kids reported that someone close to them had been murdered.
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