While more work is being put into educating workers and other community members on how to report and spot human trafficking; as law enforcement increases sting operations to catch traffickers and their buyers, studies show that most victims of this crime remain trapped.
This has to change.
Change to root out human trafficking demands the following steps:
- More efforts on the end of law enforcement to capture human traffickers and their buyers
- Educating the community, parents, and even children about the tactics of traffickers
- Encouraging internet safety (especially for kids), as many traffickers use social media, video games, and chatrooms to locate victims
- Holding buyers of human traffickers just as accountable as traffickers themselves. Without demand, human trafficking would cease to exist.
- Informing the general public about human trafficking. Far too many people wrongly believe this is a rare, far-off issue.
- Supporting organizations committed to fighting human trafficking, such as Operation Underground Railroad, Slavery Free World, A21.
Anyone who wishes to report what they believe to be human trafficking can contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline via phone at 1 (888) 373-7888 or by text at 233733.
