UNICEF estimates that there are 250,000 child prostitutes in Brazil.

Source:  Chris Rogers, “Brazil’s sex tourism boom,” BBC News, July 30, 2010.

Below are music piracy losses in 2009 for selected countries. The figures are from the International Intellectual Property Alliance.

Source: “IIPA 2010 “Special 301 Recommendations,” International Intellectual Property Alliance, February 18, 2010.

Between 2007 and 2009, police in Rio de Jeneiro estimate that 6,000 kilograms of cocaine was produced in two of the city’s largest favelas. The street value of the cocaine produced was $46 Million.

Source:  Tom Phillips, “Rio de Janeiro police occupy slums as city fights back against drug gangs,” Guardian, April 12, 2010.

38 million animals are taken from the Amazon Rainforest each year for the purpose of animal trafficking.

Source: Alan Campana, “Animal Investigators: Solving Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species,” Wilson Center, May 20, 2009.

The illegal wildlife trade in Brazil generates $2 Billion in revenue, according to Brazilian trafficking organization Renctas.

The Brazilian market makes up to 10 percent of the total illegal trade in wildlife.

Source:  brazilmax.com, “Combating Brazilian Wildlife Traffic: Activist Dener Giovani ,” Renctas, August 19, 2006. Accessed on August 7, 2009.

The Brazilian Association for the Development of Video Games finds that up to 94 percent of all video games sold in Brazil are pirated.

Source:  Pedro Franco, “A Nation of Pirates,” Escapist, May 12, 2009.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Marijuana in the Americas.

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Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

Price is in US Dollars and represents the typical price of Cocaine in the Americas.

Source: UNODC, “World Drug Report 2009: Section 3.4 Prices, pages 215 to 234,” June 2009.

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