Human Trafficking

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Multi-Dimensional Threats

Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat: it deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it is a global health risk, and it increases the growth of organized crime.

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FORMS OF RISK AND ABUSE
POTENTIAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES
1.MURDER
2.PHYSICAL ATTACKS
3.TORTURE {ice-baths,cigarette burns,suspension}
4.PHYSICAL DEPRIVATION {SLEEP,FOOD,LIGHT}
5.FORCED VAGINAL, ORAL, OR ANAL SEX, GANG RAPE, DEGRADING SEXUAL ACTS
6.FORCED PROSTITUTION,INABILITY TO CONTROL NUMBER OF ACCEPTANCE OF CLIENTS
7.FORCED UN PROTECTED SEX, SEX WITHOUT LUBRICANTS
8.UNWANTED PREGNANCY,UNSAFE/ FORCED ABORTIONS
9.SEXUAL HUMILIATION/ FORCED NAKEDNESS
10.THREATS
11.LIES,BLACKMAIL
12.EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION
13.FORCED AND COERCED USE OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
14.FREQUENT RELOCATION
15.ABSENCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT
16. USURIOUS CHARGES FOR TRAVEL DOCUMENTS, HOUSING,FOOD,CLOTHING,CONDOMS,HEALTH CARE,AND OTHER BASIC NEEDS,
17.RESALE OF WOMEN AND RENEWAL OF DEBTS.
18.LEGAL INSECURITY
19.ABUSIVE WORK HOURS
20.DANGEROUS WORK AND LIVING CONDITIONS
21.FEAR OF LAW ENFORCEMENTS AND OTHER AUTHORITIES
1.DEATH
2.ACUTE AND CHRONIC PHYSICAL INJURIES
3.FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION
4.POOR NUTRITION, MAL-NUTRITION, STARVATION
5. HIV/AIDS
6.SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
7.SUICIDAL THOUGHTS,SELF-HARM
8.DEPRESSION
9.OVERDOES,SELF -HARM,DEATH,SUICIDE
10.PARTICIPATION IN UNWANTED SEXUAL ACTS, UNPROTECTED AND HIGH RISK SEXUAL ACTS
11.BRAIN AND LIVER DAMAGE
12.FEELINGS IN ISOLATION,LONELINESS AND EXCLUSION
13.INABILITY TO AFFORD: BASIC HYGIENE,NUTRITION,SAFE HOUSING, CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTION,LUBRICANTS
14.ACCEPTANCE OF DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS
15.ARRESTS, AND DETENTION
16.LONELINESS AND OTHER NEGATIVE MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOME
17.ANXIETY AND TRAUMA AS A RESULT OF INTERROGATION
18.NEEDLE INTRODUCED INFECTION INCLUDING HIV AND HEPATITIS C
19 DEPENDENCE ON DRUGS, ALCOHOL,OR CIGARETTES TO COPE WITH ABUSE ,STRESS,ANXIETY OR FEAR.

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