An estimated 27 million people live in slavery today, with 800,000 being trafficked annually across international borders.

The big business of transnational human trafficking generates approximately $10 billion dollars annually.

The greatest vulnerability and impact is suffered by children living in poverty and with minimal education.

There are 2 million boys and girls (the majority girls) per year who fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation.

It is essential to prevent this atrocious crime, as well as to promote and put into action laws that punish the perpetrators of the sexual exploitation of children- as well as establishing a legal frame-work for the protection of survivors.