Each year there are between 300-450 reported cases of human trafficking in Canada, totaling around 1,600 cases over five years. Sexual exploitation makes up 71% of human trafficking in Canada, and the majority of victims are women. Human traffickers often target vulnerable groups like those living in poverty or without family support in order to exploit them. In one-third of cases, victims already know their trafficker as a family member, friend, or romantic partner. Official statistics are likely much lower than the actual number of cases, as much human trafficking goes unreported.
Each year there are between 300-450 reported cases of human trafficking in Canada, totaling around 1,600 cases over five years. Sexual exploitation makes up 71% of human trafficking in Canada, and the majority of victims are women. Human traffickers often target vulnerable groups like those living in poverty or without family support in order to exploit them. In one-third of cases, victims already know their trafficker as a family member, friend, or romantic partner. Official statistics are likely much lower than the actual number of cases, as much human trafficking goes unreported.
Each year there are between 300-450 reported cases of human trafficking in Canada, totaling around 1,600 cases over five years. Sexual exploitation makes up 71% of human trafficking in Canada, and the majority of victims are women. Human traffickers often target vulnerable groups like those living in poverty or without family support in order to exploit them. In one-third of cases, victims already know their trafficker as a family member, friend, or romantic partner. Official statistics are likely much lower than the actual number of cases, as much human trafficking goes unreported.
between 300-450 cases of human trafficking in Canada alone. That is about 1,600 cases in five years.
Sexual exploitation is the most
popular version of human trafficking in Canada. About 71% of human trafficking victims are women, and 29% male.
Human Trafficker generally try and
take their victims by giving them support or opportunities, so the more popular groups they victimize are people living in poverty or debt, foster kids, mentally ill victims, juvenile or welfare kids, those homeless , or runaways.
Many people assume that human
traffickers don’t know their victims but one-third of the time the victim knows or is related to there trafficker. for example; a spouse, significant other, parent, friend, care giver, or other family members
The worst part is that we don’t
know how accurate the statistics are because a lot of the time human trafficking goes. Unnoticed about 4% of human trafficking is identified and about 1-2% of children are saved from human traffickers .