YOU CAN HELP STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING

KEY QUESTIONS TO ASK a possible trafficking victim:

• What type of work do you do?
• Are you being paid?
• Can you leave your job if you want to?
• Can you come and go as you please?
• Have you or your family been threatened?
• What are your working and living conditions like?
• Where do you sleep nd eat
• Do you have to ask permission to eat/sleep/go to the bathroom?
• Are there locks on your doors/windows so you can't get out?
• Has your identification been taken from you?

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Human Trafficking is the exploitation by force, fraud or coercion of vulnerable people for forced labor, domestic servitude or commercial sex operations.

Clues that may help you identify a possible trafficing victim:

1) Accompanied by a controlling person or boss: not speaking on own behalf

2) Lack of control over personal schedule, money, I.D., travel documents

3) Transported to and from work; lives and works in the same place

4) Debt owed to employer/crew leader; inability to leave job

5) Bruises, depression, fear, overly submissive