Sunday, January 27, 2019 – Saturday, February 2, 2019
Labor Trafficking:
“The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage debt bondage or slavery.”
Human Trafficking Protection Act of 2000.
Sex Trafficking:
“The recruitment, harbouring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for a commercial sex act, in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.”
Human Trafficking Protection Act of 2000.
Facts:
- There are as many as 40,000,000 people trapped in slavery world-wide.
- Trafficking is a $150 billion industry
- There are nearly 2,000,000 children who are exploited in the commercial sex industry.
- Government figures estimate that as many as 17,500 people are trafficked into the United States annually.
- The average age for entry into sex trafficking in the U.S. is 12-14
- 1 in 5 run-away children will be trafficked.
- North Carolina consistently ranks in the top 10 of states for trafficking
Events
Sunday, January 27: 3:00 – 4:30
Anti-Pornography event featuring “Fight the New Drug” and including Bishop Hope Morgan Ward and International Justice Mission
Garner United Methodist Church
Summary: Exposure to pornography is rampant among our youth. The general public remains unaware of the highly addictive nature of pornography and its damaging effects on individuals, relationships, and society. Research also provides a direct link between pornography and human trafficking.
The unfortunate reality of pornography production is that, often, the production of pornography is neither harmless nor consensual. Rather, pornography plays a unique role in fueling the human trafficking industry by both contributing to the demand for more traditional forms of sex trafficking and creating another route to profit for traffickers who enslave victims for the production of pornographic media. – Northwestern Law Review Journal, Vol 111.
The youth session begins with worship. The adult session begins with an introduction to the “Human Trafficking Awareness Week.” This will include exploring the international implications of pornography and human trafficking by International Justice Mission (IJM).
Monday, January 28: Local public school events.
Presentations by Fight the New Drug at area schools.
Monday – Friday: Area outreach events
International outreach events: Breakfast meetings introducing the work of IJM
Domestic outreach events: Hotel training in cooperation with local police departments
Saturday, February 2: 10:00 – noon: Human Trafficking Awareness Event
Garner United Methodist Church
Introduction to the reality and scope of domestic and international human trafficking while providing action steps for response. Featured presenters areAnna (last name withheld). Anna was forced into sex trafficking around the age of 12. She met her trafficker through a United Methodist Church in our conference. International Justice Mission: IJM is the world’s leading agency in combating the global terror of human trafficking.