According to Siddharth Kara, trafficking researcher and board member of anti-trafficking organziation Free the Slaves, “the total revenue generated by the exploitation of all victims of human trafficking in 2007 was $58.6 billion, with profits of $39.7 billion.”

Source: Siddarth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, (New York: Colombia University Press, 2009) page 19.

According to a hearing in the United States Senate, US Senator Richard Durbin stated that an estimated 100,000 children fall victim to sex trafficking in the United States each year.

The Senator further stated that the  average age that a girl enters prostitution in the United States is 13.

Source: Richard Durbin, “In Our Own Backyard: Child Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States,” Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, February 24, 2010.

38 percent of all calls to the National Human Trafficking Resources Center originated from the state of Texas in 2008.

Source:  Alex Branch, “Texas cracking down on human traffickers,”Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 23, 2010.

South Korea’s National Human Rights Commission found that 20 percent of women in refugee camps bribes North Korean guards with either sex or money in order to defect from the country.

Source:  AFP, “N.Korea women refugees suffer abuse: watchdog,” Google News, February 22, 2010.

A task force in Ohio reported that 1,000 children who were born in Ohio are forced to work in the sex trade.

Source:  Associated Press, “Report: Hundreds forced into labor, sex in Ohio,” Washington Post, February 10, 2010.

A task force in Ohio reported that up to 800 immigrants are trafficked into Ohio each year and are forced to work in the sex trade or in sweatshops.

Source:  Associated Press, “Report: Hundreds forced into labor, sex in Ohio,” Washington Post, February 10, 2010.

One-third of all sex workers in Cambodia are estimated to be children, according to End Child Prostitution, Abuse and Trafficking (ECPAT).

Source:  Leif Coorlim, “Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery,” CNN, February 9, 2010.

In 2006, official state documents show that there were 35 confirmed cases of parents who were directly involved in the prostitution of their child.

Source:  Cheryl Mercedes, “Group claims B.R. has human trafficking problem,” WAFB News, February 5, 2010.

During the 2009 Super Bowl in Tampa between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, Florida officials rescued 24 children who were working as prostitutes during the event.

Source:  Carol Marbin and Jennifer Lebovich, “Volunteers hope to rescue child prostitutes during Super Bowl week,” Miami Herald, February 5, 2010.

According to US Ambassador in charge of its anti-trafficking programs, nearly 60 percent of all people held as slaves around the world are women.

Source:  Jill Dougherty, “State Department targets more funds to fight child trafficking in Haiti,” CNN, February 3, 2010.