Sex trafficking (ST) is a specific subset of human trafficking (HT). Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking are types of modern-day slavery, in which individuals are exploited and forced into sexual servitude or labor against their will. All HT involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain or maintain control over another person for the purpose of exploitation, for the financial gain of his/her captors.

Advocacy against Sex Trafficking & Human Trafficking means we need to do all we can to bring awareness to communities to protect children and adults from being trafficked, while also rescuing and rehabilitating them. It also means we should help support, write and enforce laws to protect girls, boys, and adults from being trafficked. This should include laws that require bringing to justice not only oppressors and exploiters, but also consumers paying for victims’ “services” (e.g., consider the Nordic model, going after the “johns,” as advancing this approach).