Of the 50 organizations tallied, three were public-private partnerships and the rest were not-for-profit organizations. Polaris Project's Executive Director, Bradley Myles, has stated in interviews and in an open letter to Village Voice Media,[19] the owner of Backpage, that the site "facilitates human trafficking," and called for the website to stop accepting ads for sexual services. [9] In April 2013, Polaris Project launched their Global Human Trafficking Hotline Network to connect with international anti-trafficking organizations running hotlines and coordinate efforts. Even worse, Mam misrepresented the clientele of AFESIP, claiming vaguely that “most of the girls are from trafficking.” In fact, an independent audit of the NGO in January 2014 found that only 49 percent of the 674 women and girls in residence between 2008 and 2012 could be considered “trafficked” under any definition of the term. When The Atlantic investigated, Koyama noted that most of the young people detained in raids are 16 or 17. This is a difficult time for media orgs and donations to Truthout are down. Serving victims and survivors through the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Polaris has advocated shutting down online advertising site Backpage, claiming that it facilitates human trafficking. There’s also no real evidence that human trafficking is growing – by law enforcement logic, in fact, the means by which perpetrators are being investigated and prosecuted are actually advancing. It is impossible to satisfactorily count (or even estimate) the number of persons involved in or the magnitude of profits within an illicit, clandestine, underground economy at the macro level – nationally or internationally.”. As we will see, many organizations that focus on “raising awareness of trafficking” aren’t providing factual information at all. Mission and Vision. “They are responsible for forcing the residents working in the center to have sex,” according to the document, El Mundo reported. In all, 50 of the most prominent anti-trafficking organizations in the United States are estimated to share around $686 million – an amount that would place them approximately 184th on the UN’s ranking of nations by GDP, right above Samoa. In 2014, the Office for National Statistics in London announced plans to add estimates of earnings by sex workers of 10 billion pounds to its GDP, a number it appeared to have arrived at by multiplying a single nonprofit’s estimate of the number of sex workers in the country by an online escort website’s listed prices, which would not incorporate, say, the lower earnings of street workers or dancers. This last phrase is anti-trafficking code for consensual sex workers, filtered through a definition of trafficking that defines all sexual labor as necessarily forced. How old are they? Tax-exempt organizations that are affiliated with public-private partnerships are bound by financial disclosure laws. [16] Sex worker advocates have stated the human trafficking hotline operated by Polaris is not confidential, and that calls to the hotline are referred to police who then arrest adult sex workers. To illustrate the domestic scope of the problem, the 2006 TIPR is often cited: The State Department estimated that between 14,500 and 17,500 individuals are trafficked into the United States each year. Mam had helped establish, for US audiences, key plot points in the narrative of trafficking and its future eradication. [12], The accuracy of Polaris’ data on human trafficking has been questioned by multiple sources. And that, as we will see, could be a very low estimate. Judging by all credible estimates, claims made by anti-trafficking organizations about how many trafficked persons they serve are out of proportion with the actual number of people in the world considered to be trafficked by official sources. In 2013, these agencies – plus the Department of Defense, which opened nine cases involving military personnel – investigated a potential 1,937 cases of human trafficking and an additional 100 cases were prosecuted at the state level. Criticism. But to label this as anything other than an estimate is unfounded. Few countered Newsweek’s report, however, until Marie Claire mounted a defensive strike in September 2014, with a new interview with Mam, in which she sought to debunk the allegations against her. Magnanti’s takedown of wage estimates of sex workers in the UK should indicate how difficult it is to reliably predict criminalized economies, but the drug trade, the illegal arms trade and the trade in counterfeit goods have all, in recent years, been thought to pull in more than $150 billion. Occasionally this is coded as, “assist[ing] trafficked persons,” “outreach,” “intervention,” or “eradicating” or “combating” slavery, or may be included in the emerging (and slightly less abrasive) notion of “restoring victims” – possibly “to justice.” (Although few organizations describe their own work in such violent terms, media tend to refer to “rescue operations” from situations of sexual exploitation as “brothel raids,” both of which remove women, with varying degrees of consent, from situations deemed exploitive by the organization and which occasionally end with the incarceration of supposed victims.).

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