An introduction to human trafficking and how we can combat it.

2. THE FASTESTGOING
TRADE TODAY?
PEOPLE

3. “THE CHAINS OF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
ARE
INVISIBLE
“

4. THERE ARE AN ESTIMATED
35.8 MILLION
PEOPLE ENSLAVED TODAY
14.8MILLION
IN INDIA ALONE

5. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS
MODERN-DAY
SLAVERY
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?

6. ‣ Human trafficking is the SOLICITATION, TRANSPORTATION
and EXPLOITATION of humans by means of deception
and coercion and under the threat of violence.
‣ Trafficked MEN, WOMEN, and CHILDREN are under the
control of another and as slaves, they are treated as
property and are stripped of their rights.

7. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS
ILLEGAL IN
INDIA

8. ‣ GLOBALIZATION and Increase in LABOR MIGRATION
‣ Globalization has set the stage for a huge new industry
and “the migrants are the supply and the unwitting
props in a tragedy of enormous proportions.”
‣ The continuing SUBORDINATION OF WOMEN
‣ THE HIGH DEMAND, worldwide, for trafficked women
and children for sex tourism, sex workers, cheap
sweatshop labor, and domestic workers.
‣ The INADEQUACY OF LAW enforcement in India
hampers efforts to fight trafficking.
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

9. THE MONEY FROM THE
HUMAN TRAFFICKING INDUSTRYFUNDS ORGANIZED CRIME ANDTERRORISTS NETWORK
WORLD WIDE.
FACT

10. ‣ In general, the criminal business feeds on poverty,
despair, war, crisis, and ignorance.
‣ It is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the
world.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING INDUSTRY

11. HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
INDUSTRY

12. HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
INDUSTRY

13. “Nobody is free
until everybody is free”
VIVEK PANDIT,
INDIAN ANTI-SLAVERY
CAMPAIGNER

14. There are more trafficking victims alive now than ever
before in
So how can we believe it’s possible to bring human
trafficking to an end?
HISTORY
Because even though there may be more slaves now,
they represent a SMALL % of the world’s population than
EVER BEFORE

15. WHAT IS NEEDED
TO ABOLISH
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
?

16. AWARENESS Educational campaigns to spread
information through pamphlets,
speeches, films, presentation, forums,
word of mouth, and online

17. ACTION Service projects and
fundraising events to engage
the local community.

18. AID fundraising and donation efforts to
support charities and organizations
working towards the eradication of
human trafficking.

19. GOVERNMENT
SUPPORT
Ensuring justice for
humans traffickers and
support for victims

20. FIGHTING
HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
?

21. TWO-
FRONT WAR Ensuring the police and courts protect
people from human trafficking and
stops trafficking criminals
Addressing the poverty factor that
allows trafficking in the first place

22. EVERYONE
HAS A ROLE
TO PLAY IN
THIS ENORMOUS
ENDEAVOR

23. BUSINESSES
Must make sure that slave labor is not
being used in the supply line of their
products

24. COMMUNITIES
Must work to become slave-free by
refusing slave-made goods and learn
how to identify slavery and trafficking
so that traffickers will have nowhere to
hide.

25. GOVERNMENT Must make India slave-free and start
enforcing their anti-trafficking laws

26. ORGANIZATIONS
Must coordinate their efforts and
become united in solving global poverty
and human trafficking

27. YOUcan make the
difference between
HUMAN
TRAFFICKING AND
FREEDOM

28. WHAT
CAN
YOU
DO??

29. ‣ Educate yourself: go online,
contact a local organization, or
read the newspaper
‣ Sign up to join Saath Chalo
‣ Register to get e-mail updates
from Saath Chalo
‣ Involve your community
‣ Spread the truth about Human
Trafficking
WHAT
CAN
YOU
DO??

30. ‣ Buy goods that are made
with fair labor standards
‣ Get your voice heard by
contacting local government
officials and sign petitions in
support of strict anti-
trafficking legislation
‣ Donate to a local
organization or Saath Chalo
‣ Keep an eye out for
suspicious signs of slavery
in your neighborhood
WHAT
CAN
YOU
DO??

31. THE COST
OF FREEDOM
‣ pays for books, uniforms
and a satchel so a former
child slave can go to school.
‣ pays for a raid to free child
slaves in India who are then
helped to rebuild and
recover their lives
RS 935/-
RS 8811/-

32. HOW CAN
WE FIND
SLAVES
IN OUR
COMMUNITIES?
?

33. HOW CAN
WE FIND
SLAVES
IN OUR
COMMUNITIES?
?
Signs of Slavery
‣ Is not free to leave or come
and go as he/she wishes
‣ Is under 18 and is providing
commercial sex acts
‣ Is in the commercial sex
industry and has a pimp /
manager
‣ Is unpaid or paid very little

34. HOW CAN
WE FIND
SLAVES
IN OUR
COMMUNITIES?
?
Signs of Slavery
‣ Works excessively long
‣ Is not allowed breaks or
suffers under unusual
restrictions at work
‣ Owes a debt and is unable to
pay it off
‣ Was recruited through false
promises concerning the
nature and conditions of his/
her work

35. 80560 80000
If there is any sign of
suspicious activity
YOU can contact the
Bonded Labour Helpline
Report a tip 24/7
toll-free anywhere in India
YOUcan make
the difference

36. • “Imagine that after 5, 000 years of slavery we commit
ourselves to achieving it’s eradication in our lifetime.
• Imagine that your generation will be the one that is
looked back on in history as the generation that ended
slavery.
• Imagine that your children and your grandchildren will
grow up in a world where slavery is just seen as an ugly
blot on our history.
• Imagine a world where every person is born in freedom
and lives in liberty.”
Kevin Bales
(Co-Founder and President of Free the Slaves)

37. Let’s join together
and make human trafficking
a thing of the past once and
for all.

38. Please pick up
Saath Chalo stickers,
pamphlets,
and register to join
Saath Chalo

39. Sources
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