Human Trafficking

1. Healthcare Practices to help victims of trafficking

1.1. The Trafficking Awareness for Health Professionals Act of 2015

1.1.1. Bill outlines that schools that would receive grant, a required time period for schools that receive the grant to follow, specific issues schools must address when developing their practices and programs, pilot programs to be tested once research finding are gathered, a written up assessment by the schools of such findings at the end of the time period, and finally a twenty four month period for the HHS and AHRQ to disseminate such practices and programs to healthcare professional schools around the nation.

2. Leading organizations combating human trafficking

2.1. Polaris, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women- International, California Against Slavery

3. Statistics of human trafficking in the US

3.1. The US is a destination and transit country for human trafficking, and it is estimated that 50,000 people are trafficked into the US every year and 400,00 domestic minors are involved in trafficking making the US one of the largest markets and/or destinations for trafficking, second only to Germany. (Dovydaitis )

4. Statistics of human trafficking globally

4.1. Globally, it is estimated that 20 million people are being trafficked every year.

5. Definition of human trafficking

5.1. Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people that can be in the form of forced labor, domestic service, sweatshops, construction work, as well as sexual exploitation for commercial purpose.