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CHECK OUT THE LATEST Resources! IHM Sisters join other orders to fight trafficking during Super Bowl - Michigan Catholic 2012 Prayer Service for Human Trafficking Awareness Day (Jan. 11) Prayer to End Human Trafficking Purchase handcrafted bags, jewelry and paper products from Made by Survivors Learn More about Made by Survivors Encourage Hotels to Take Action to Fight Trafficking Personalize and print out this letter. Then deliver it to hotels where you stay. The letter asks hotels to sign 'The Code' of conduct for the protection of children from sexual exploitation in the travel and tourism industry.
Over 800,000 people are smuggled involuntarily across national borders annually. Between 18,000 and 20,000 of those victims are trafficked into the U.S. Human trafficking is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. People are snared into trafficking through physical force, false promises regarding job opportunities or marriages in foreign countries. The most common form of human trafficking is sexual exploitation (79 percent) followed by forced labor (18 percent). Forced labor is detected and reported less because it is frequently goes unnoticed, especially in big cities. Four out of every five victims of trafficking are women and girls. Twenty percent of all trafficking victims in the world are children, but in some parts of Africa and Asia's Mekong region, children are the majority. Michigan and northwest Ohio are considered a hot spot for human trafficking because of their proximity to the Canadian border. However, an official ban on human trafficking in Michigan didn't come until 2006, when Governor Jennifer Granholm signed House Bill 5747. This law now punishes perpetrators of human trafficking in Michigan. The maximum sentence an individual can get if convicted is life in prison if the activity results in the death of another. They can receive up to 15 years if a violation causes injury, and up to 10 years in other cases. Prayer and Reflection Materials
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