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NEED TO KNOW FACTS

ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human trafficking
has been declared as
one of the greatest
human rights
challenges of this
century!
According to the Global
Slavery Index, there are 45.8
million slaves in the world
today, and 80% of those are
women and girls, and 50% of
them are children.

78% of the 45.8

million slaves live in
the Australasia region

Whether a person is
trafficked for labor, as a child 80% of those sold into
bride, through adoption,  or
for sexual exploitation, they sexual slavery are under 24
all experience sexual An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each
violence and exploitation. 
year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect.
Sexual exploitation
makes up 79% of
identified forms of
human trafficking,
including forced
prostitution,
stripping, massage
services and
pornography

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According to United Nations Children’s Fund

(UNICEF), over the past 30 years, over 30
million children have been sexually exploited
through human trafficking.
We know from media reports and from survivors stories
that women in prostitution live with PTSD, they are subject
to weekly abuse, assault, bashings, degradation, rape and
threats - and are deeply traumatised by experiencing daily
abuse in their “workplace”.

Melissa Farley's For the approximately 20,000 women in prostitution in

research tells us that
over 80% of women in
prostitution if asked,
would do anything
else. The majority of
women working in
prostitution want to
get out.
Whether it is
pornography, prostitution
or human trafficking,
there are often two
common denominators:
• gender based/sexual
violence and
Australia, the legalised, decriminalised or regulated
systems of prostitution does not work, for we know that
the majority of women do not want to be there. 
There is an undeniable and clear link between the
legalisation of prostitution and the rate of trafficking of
persons.
As Rachel Moran - a victim survivor
of the sex trade has said:
prostitution is paid rape!
Australia is currently out of step with international
norms and well as international policy developments
in prostitution law reform - and needs to move
towards a Nordic - like model to be human right

• demand

A truly progressive society

encourages the equality and
dignity of all women, not
the purchase and renting of
women’s bodies - which is in
direct violation of gender
equality and international
human rights laws.

Human trafficking for

sexual exploitation is a
gender based violence
and human rights
issue.
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compliant and gender equal.

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