The 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report says that despite all the best efforts of OUR
government and that of governments around the world, and hundreds of millions of
dollars spent, the number of actual confirmed victims was about 46,000 persons.
Only 46,000 Human Trafficking Victims Identified Worldwide In 2012, State
Department Report Finds
“Only 46,570 out of an estimated 27 million victims of human trafficking were identified in 2012. That is the
conclusion of a new report released by the U.S. State Department.”
Number of estimated human trafficking victims (worldwide):
Number of confirmed human trafficking victims (worldwide):
Percentage of actual victims confirmed to ‘estimated‘ victims:
Appallingly high rate?
Number of estimated victims of violence against women US:
Number of estimated victims of violence against women worldwide:
Percentage of estimated human trafficking victims to
estimated victims of violence against women worldwide:
Number of REPORTED victims of violent rape and sexual assault in the US (2012)
27,000,000
46,570
0.172481%
52,609,251
869,027,744
3.10692%
346,830
WHY ARE WE SPENDING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOOKING FOR PHANTOM
VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY MORE UNAMBIGUOUS VICTIMS
OF VIOLENCE, THE MAJORITY OF WHOM ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
Why does Bradley Miles, the chief executive of the Polaris Project, a non-governmental organization which
receives MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS to document human trafficking (take phone calls from
‘potential victims’), continue to state that the report brought attention to the “appallingly high rate” of global
human trafficking, when clearly the ‘appallingly high rate’ of victims is not high at all? In the US alone, there are
hundreds of thousands of REPORTED violent rapes and sexual assaults as well as incidents of domestic
violence... how is ‘46,570’ confirmed victims an ‘appallingly high rate,’ compared to the really appallingly high
rate of rapes, sexual assaults, domestic violence and other forms of violence against women?
WHERE ARE THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
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