Human Trafficking Awareness Month

 

This campaign will
  1. Encourage victims to seek help by letting them know they will not be treated as criminals
  2. Inform you about the existence of modern-day slavery and motivate you to take action
  3. Inspire a national movement to eradicate slavery and human trafficking once and for all

  

 

Small Bites of Human Trafficking

 

  • It is the fastest growing crime in the world, and is the second largest crime only topped by drug trafficking 
  • Recent estimates of this illegal global trade in persons are as high as $32 billion, if both the sale of individuals and the value of their exploited labor or services are taken into account. The money generated by sex trafficking alone is conservatively estimated at $7 billion per year, although Interpol has given a higher estimate of $19 billion annually 
  • As many as 4 million men, women, and children worldwide to be bought, sold, transported and held against their will in slavery-like conditions but we are not aware of it
  • There are a minimum of 15,000 - 17,000 people who are trafficked into the U.S. every year, with Los Angeles serving as one of the top three points of entry
  • According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Italy and the US are the top destinations of human trafficking.  Victims are brought there and forced to provide servitude and/or sex work
  • Thailand is also the main source of trafficked people and is the worst country for child sex trafficking in the world

  

Why Should We Care?

 

As we live our daily life, we might be the cause of human trafficking, the fastest growing international crime and the second

largest crime only topped by drug trafficking. Cheap products we buy, fruits on our dining table, toys for our kids, garments

we wear, coffee we drink every morning...etc, are very likely produced by modern day slaves around the world. While we are

seeking cheaper products, we are closing our eyes, enjoying the bargains, and permitting human traffickers to exploit men,

women, and children and violet their human rights.   

 

On top of that, human trafficking crime may take place right in our neighborhood.  Victims were frequently brought to a

residential area and were forced to provide sex or do labor works.  The very first modern day slavery case in the U.S., the El

Monte Case was taking place at two apartment buildings in which Thai men and women were brought there to do garment

works with very little pay and got abused physically and mentally for over 7 years. 

 

You Can Help Stop The Fastest Growing Crime with 2R

  
REPORT


            If you yourself or you know someone who were or are mistreated by an employer, which includes but not limited to

being threatened or forced to provide services

physically or mentally abused

having no freedom of communication with others or movement

being paid very little or nothing, or

documents such as ID or passport being confiscated

please contact the Thai CDC at (323) 468-2555 immediately for assistance in Thai or call CAST's 24-hour hotline

1-888-KEY-2-FRE(EDOM) . All information and immigration status will be kept strictly confidential.

 

RESPONSIBLE SHOPPING

 

Shopping is essential but how to shop with a conscious is we, as a socially responsible consumer can do to avoid being an

accomplice to this criminal practice. Stop human trafficking today by checking out which corporation is good and which

corporation is not through the Ethical Shopping www.ethicalshopping.com

 

Event

Click here to see the play Fabric, a play inspired by the 1995 El Monte Thai garment workers' slavery case by award-winning

playwright Henry Ong

 

Thai CDC's Efforts in Combating Human Trafficking

Being the only Thai organization that addresses the persistent problem of human trafficking from Thailand into the U.S., Thai

CDC has helped over 2,000 Thais pursue justice and restore their lives in the past 15 years... click here to see Thai CDC's

victory for human rights