jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months ago‘Epidemic’ of sex trafficking alleged at Red Roof Inn hotels across USwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down14
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minus-squaregirlfreddy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoYou’re only going on the numbers in this article tho. There are other instances of trafficking that raise those numbers exponentially. Inquiry must validate stories of indigenous women prostituted on ships: NWAC The United States, along with Mexico and the Philippines, was ranked one of the world’s worst places for human trafficking in 2018. In the US, there is no official number of human trafficking victims, but estimates place it in the hundreds of thousands. Children are more vulnerable than adults. They’re easier to control, cheaper, and less likely to demand working conditions, researchers explained. More than 300,000 young people in the US are considered “at risk” of sexual exploitation.
You’re only going on the numbers in this article tho. There are other instances of trafficking that raise those numbers exponentially.
Inquiry must validate stories of indigenous women prostituted on ships: NWAC
The United States, along with Mexico and the Philippines, was ranked one of the world’s worst places for human trafficking in 2018. In the US, there is no official number of human trafficking victims, but estimates place it in the hundreds of thousands.
Children are more vulnerable than adults. They’re easier to control, cheaper, and less likely to demand working conditions, researchers explained. More than 300,000 young people in the US are considered “at risk” of sexual exploitation.