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33 BYU J. Pub. L. 321 (2018-2019)
Changing the Narrative: Sex Trafficking and Its Victims

handle is hein.journals/byujpl33 and id is 337 raw text is: Changing the Narrative: Sex Trafficking and Its Victims I. INTRODUCTION Human trafficking is currently the second most profitable criminal industry in the world,' trailing behind only drug trafficking.2 This il- legal industry racks in a staggering $31.6 billion in profit per year,' and the initial sale of a trafficked individual generates approximately $7-12 billion.' Human trafficking is also the fastest growing criminal industry in the world,s and many scholars predict that soon it will surpass even drug trafficking as the most profitable criminal enterprise, as gangs are finding that it is more profitable to trade humans over drugs or guns. While experts debate how many individuals are currently being traf- ficked, most seem to settle on approximately forty million people worldwide.' This means that there are more people in slavery today 1. WhatIsluHnan Traffclang?, U.S. DEP'T OF HOMELAND SECURITY, https://www. dhs.gov/blue-campaign/what-human-trafficking (last visited Mar. 14, 2019). 2. KEVIN BALES & RON SOODALTER, THE SLAVE NEXT DOOR: HUMAN TRAFFICIONG AND SLAVERY IN AMERICA TODAY 3 (2009) (ebook). 3. Attorney General Sean Reyes, Speech for BYU Women (Jan. 9, 2016). 4. Anna Gekht, Shared but Differentiated Responsibibty Integration of International Obh1gationsin FightAganst Trafficking in Human Beings, 37 DENV. J. INT'L L. & POL'Y 29, 31(2008). 5. Human Trafdicldng Is the World's Fastest Growing Crime. Here's How Hospitals Can Fght Back, ADVISORY BOARD (May 22, 2017, 9:30 AM), https://www.advisory.com/daily- briefing/2017/05/22/human-trafficking (citing to a Department of Defense study that named hu- man trafficking as the fastest growing crime in the world). 6. Reyes, supra note 3; see e.g. How Street Gangs Make Big Money by Sex Traf6cking 14-Year-Old Gkrls, FIGHT THE NEW DRUG, (Sept. 27, 2018), https://fightthenewdrug.org/cal- ifornia-gangs-cashing-selling- 14-year-old-girls-sex/; Carrie Johnson, Gangs Enter New Terri- tory with Sex Traf/clang, NPR (Nov. 14, 2011, 4:46 PM), https://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/14 230073 1/gangs-enter-new-territory-with-sex-trafficking. 7. E.g., Unravehng the Numbers, GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX, https://www.globalslavery- index.org/2018/findings/highlights/ (last visited Mar. 14,2019) (estimating there are 40.3 million people being trafficked); Mark Tutton, 40Mi1/ion Slavesin the World, Finds NewReport; CNN (Sep. 20, 2017, 9:57 AM), https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/world/global-slavery-estimates- ilo/index.html; Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and Human Trdfeking, INT'L LAB. ORG., http://www.io.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang-en/index.htm (last visited Mar. 14, 2019) (estimating 40.3 million trafficked individuals worldwide); Kevin Bales, Why Brazil Leads the World in Fghtng Slavery, CNN (Oct. 18, 2013, 5:13 PM), http://thecnnfreedompro- ject.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-facts/the-number/ (stating that thirty million is a conservative number). 321

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