80 percent of young beggars in the streets of Thailand have come from Cambodia.

The young beggars, ranging in age from newborn babies to 12 year olds, generally work between 8 to 12 hours a day and earn between $9 to $31 (300 to 1,000 Thai Baht). Child beggars are often the victims of human trafficking.

Source: “Stop giving to beggars, says foundation,” Bangkok Post, July 27, 2010.

According to police in Malaysia, a 23 month old baby girl was being shopped around by child traffickers for the price of $3,120 (10,000 Malaysian Ringgit).

Source:  AFP, “Malaysia busts child trafficking syndicate,” Google News, July 18, 2010.

In 2009, authorities in Thailand charged 2,888 people for having sex with minors who were under the age of 15.

Source: Dan Rivers, “Thailand fights to stem tide of child sex tourists,” CNN, July 5, 2010.

The US State Department reported that of all the prostitutes working in the legal prostitution industry in New Zealand, 1.3 percent of prostitutes are children.

Source: US Department of State, “Country Narratives: New Zealand,” Trafficking in Persons Report 2010, June 2010.

According to the International Labor Organization, there were 12. 3 million victims of human trafficking in 2009.

The victims were trafficked for sex, labor, debt bondage and to serve as child soldiers.

Source:  Nicole Gaouette, “Human Trafficking Is ‘Serious’ in U.S., State Department Says,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 14, 2010.

According to a report by CNN, a child trafficker can buy a child from a parent in Ghana for $50. Then, the trafficker can either sell or lease out that child for up to $300, thus making $250 a year.

Source:  Richard Lui, “Former child slave fights to end trafficking in Ghana,” CNN, May 19, 2010.

In the US state of Georgia, 500 adolescent girls were discovered by police to be working as prostitutes in hotels, online and on the streets in February 2010.  Back in August 2007, 250 girls were discovered.

Source: Nancy A. Boxill, Deborah J. Richardson and D. Scott Weimer
 , “New ways to prevent child prostitution,” Opinion Piece, Atalanta Journal Constitution, May 11,2010.

An estimated 300,000 to 400,000 children are trafficked by pimps on the streets or on the Internet each year, according to the US Department of Justice.

Source:  Babara Grady, “Youth Trafficking in Oakland: Big Business Despite Government, Police Efforts,” Oakland Local, May 5, 2010.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, most runaways will be approached by a sex trafficker within 48 hours of leaving their homes.

Source:  Barbara Grady, “Youth Trafficking in Oakland: Big Business Despite Government, Police Efforts,” May 5, 2010.

There are an estimated 800,000 prostitutes working in the Philippines, with up to half of them underage.

Source:  Magnolia Yrasuegui and Priya Esselborn, “Philippines: Women struggling to achieve sexual equality,” Deutsche Welle, December 1, 2009.