Human Trafficking Presentation Shares Facts, Raises Awareness - Your Houston News: Living
Preconceived notions and misconceptions about human trafficking add to the fallacy that schools are exempt from the uncomfortable yet volatile topic, explained Misa Nguyen, director of programs for the organization United Against Human Trafficking. The Houston-based nonprofit educates and raises awareness about the problem of human trafficking.
Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transporting or procurement of a person for labor or services for the purpose of involuntary servitude, slavery or forced commercial sex acts.
Human trafficking is a serious federal crime with penalties up to life imprisonment. It is a form of modern slavery. Those who recruit minors into commercial sexual exploitation (or prostitution) violate federal anti-trafficking laws, even if there is no force, fraud or coercion.
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