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Back says: "Two children per minute are trafficked for sexual exploitation. The purchase of this shirt aids in prevention and aftercare. WeAreOverlooked.com"

What is Child Trafficking?

Child trafficking is when children are recruited through force, deception or kidnapping, and transported within their country or across borders in order for them to be exploited. More countries in the world are involved - they may be a source of trafficked children, a place where they pass through, or a destination for these children.

Children who are desperately poor are especially at risk of child trafficking. Trafficked children may be exploited by being used in prostitution or pornography. They may be use as child labor, for domestic, factory or agricultural work, or begging. In some countries, they are forced to risk their lives as child soldiers. Some action is being taken to directly address trafficking by governments and non-profit organizations, but more must be done.

Five dollars from the sale of each shirt will be donated to Love146.

Love146 works to abolish child sex slavery and exploitation through the following ways:

Restore & Empower: Training aftercare workers, multiplying safehomes, and providing therapy, a sense of family and space to thrive. Also, by providing education and viable employment opportunities; survivors are equipped to transition back into communities.

Protect & Defend: Protecting children by developing and sustaining targeted prevention projects in high risk communities while defending the rights of the vulnerable through advocacy, awareness raising and effective action.

Click here to learn more about Love146.

Basic Statistics On Human Trafficking

Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation.

It is estimated that at least 27 million people are currently enslaved around the world; many have been enslaved through being trafficked.

Approximately 800,000 people annually are trafficked across national borders. Around 80 percent of these victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The majority of females are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. (2007 Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. State Department)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) now believes that the number of children trafficked each year is around 1.2 million. (2006)

That's two children per minute trafficked for sexual exploitation/slavery.

45,000-50,000 persons are trafficked into the U.S. each year; 15,000 of them are children. (ECPAT-USA)

The U.N. and other experts estimate the total market value of illicit human trafficking at $32 billion. (UNODC)

These numbers make trafficking in persons the second most lucrative crime in the world, second only to the sale of drugs. (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006).

About $28 billion of this is generated from commercial sexual exploitation. (International Labor Organization)

Please visit http://weareoverlooked.com/cause/ to watch videos and find out more about Love146!

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