The NOWYOUKNOW project

Sexual exploitation

 

We think human trafficking is far from our lives.

We have a stereotype: slavery can’t exist in our well-advanced western society, we are sure it bothers just the poorest countries.

Well, every stereotype hides a bit of truth, so it does.

As far as sexual exploitation is concerned, victims (women, men and even children) are enslaved, they trust false promises because of their desperate conditions or because of their debts, in some African or Eastern Europe countries. Then they are taken where the request of sex is bigger: in our respectable States.

To understand completely the size of the problem, here are some meaningful data:

79% of state-identified trafficked victims were trafficked into sex industry.

25% of all the prostitutes have been trafficked

Can this grim fact be stopped? Of course yes, it’s all about us.