Human Trafficking
A multi-billion dollar industry, human trafficking occurs in nearly every metropolitan city worldwide. Its victims, mostly women and children, are forced to sell their bodies for someone else's gain. Many are kidnapped, some are lured with false promises of employment, and yet others are turned over by their own families in exchange for cash or simply because they can't take on another mouth to feed.
Human Trafficking in Uganda
Trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children in Uganda stem from three principal factors:
Providing sustainable attention and support such as a safe environment, counseling, medical treatment, education and/or vocational training to the vulnerable victims of forced prostitution.
More Information about Human Trafficking
Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking
U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report
Hiding in Plain Sight
Salvation Army
Psalm 82:3-4 "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
A multi-billion dollar industry, human trafficking occurs in nearly every metropolitan city worldwide. Its victims, mostly women and children, are forced to sell their bodies for someone else's gain. Many are kidnapped, some are lured with false promises of employment, and yet others are turned over by their own families in exchange for cash or simply because they can't take on another mouth to feed.
Human Trafficking in Uganda
Trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and children in Uganda stem from three principal factors:
- Extreme Poverty: destitute families are vulnerable to persuasion to hire out or sell their children because they lack adequate resources to provide for their family. Girls are most vulnerable to this form of exploitation.
- Trafficking in persons is a highly lucrative business.
- Armed Conflict: civil unrest destroys livelihoods, damages economies, and causes mass population movements.
Providing sustainable attention and support such as a safe environment, counseling, medical treatment, education and/or vocational training to the vulnerable victims of forced prostitution.
More Information about Human Trafficking
Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking
U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report
Hiding in Plain Sight
Salvation Army
Psalm 82:3-4 "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
