59 human trafficking victims were recorded in 2005.

125 victims were recorded in 2006. 

212 recorded in 2007. 

Source: Veronica Uy, “Trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore ‘unabated’-embassy,” Inquirer.net, April 28, 2008.

The IIPA reports that Pakistan lost $156 million to book, music, movie, and business software piracy in 2007. 

Source: Romail Kenneth, “http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\26\story_26-4-2008_pg5_11#mce_temp_url#,” Daily Times, April 26, 2008.

According to a news release by the United States Postal Inspection Service, ” The U.S. Postal Service issued 188 million postal orders in the fiscal year ending September 2004, during which approximately 3,700 counterfeit postal money orders were cashed. That works out to about one counterfeit for every 53,000 issued, and losses were calculated at less than $3.7 million.”

Source: United States Postal Inspection Service,“Setting the Record Straight: U.S. Postal Money Orders are as Good as Money in the Bank,” News Release, May 6, 2005,(accessed: March 7, 2007).

The piracy rate for software, music, and videos in Vietnam is estimated to be as high as 92 percent.

Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative, “2006 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers: Vietnam,” March 31, 2006.

Source: “Counterfeit goods rampant,” VietNamNet Bridge, October 22, 2007.

Source: Associated Press, “Piracy Fines to Increase in Vietnam,” International Herald Tribune, November 8, 2006.

Source: David Lague, ” U.S. Official Presses China to Punish Piracy,” New York Times, November 15, 2006.

In Fiscal Year 2006, the United States Customs and Border Protection agency seized more than 14,000 counterfeit goods worth more than $155 million.

Source: Department of Homeland Security, “Counterfeit Goods Seizures Up 83% in FY 2006,” Press Release, January 1,, 2007.

In the National Drug Threat Assessment 2007, the report states that Mexican and Colombia Drug Trafficking Organizations “together generate, remove, and launder between $8.3 billion and $24.9 billion in wholesale distribution proceeds from Mexico-produced marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin and South American cocaine and heroin annually.”

On the Northern border, “an estimated $5.2 billion to $21.2 billion is generated through the wholesale distribution of marijuana and MDMA” by Canadian Drug TraffickingOrganizations.

Source: National Drug Intelligence Center, “Drug Money Laundering”, National Drug Threat Assessment 2007, October 2006.(accessed: February 21, 2007).

According to a study by Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley, an estimated 10,000 people are estimated to be working in forced labor conditions in the United States as a result of Human Trafficking. The study, Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States,  further states that the victims have been trafficked from over 35 countries, led by China and followed by Mexico and Vietnam.

Source: Free the Slaves and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, “Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States,” September 2004.