The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution designating January 11, 2009 as the National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness.

 

  In recognition of this day, Soroptimist is launching the Soroptimist STOP Trafficking Project which seeks to raise awareness about the sexual trafficking of women and girls.        

 Sex trafficking, the transport of women and children within and across national borders for the purpose of sexual exploitation, is a $32 billion dollar annual industry.  In the United States, an estimated 14,500 -17,500 victims of human trafficking (most of them women and girls) are brought in each year from other countries and trafficked for sex.

 Through the Soroptimist STOP Trafficking Project, we hope to serve as a voice for the many women trapped in lives of sexual slavery, and we hope to raise awareness of Soroptimist as an organization working to free women and girls from this heinous existence.


For more information about sexual slavery and Soroptimist's commitment to ending it, click here.