What is Human Trafficking?
Human Trafficking is happening all around us, it happens in urban areas, rural communities, public places, and online platforms. Human trafficking involves recruiting, transporting, or holding victims to exploit them or to help someone else exploit them, generally for sexual purposes or work. Traffickers get their victims to comply through different forms of coercion. This can look like luring victims by identifying vulnerabilities, grooming victims, and isolating and exploiting them. Anyone can become a victim to this fast growing crime. In Canada the majority of victims are domestic citizens and many are trafficked by an intimate partner or someone that they know.
Quick Facts
97% of victims are women and Indigenous women make up around half of all human sex trafficking victims in Canada.
Trafficking and exploitation is an ongoing cycle of physical, emotional, and psychological abuse.
Anyone can become a victim to trafficking and exploitation. Traffickers groom and lure victims by identifying each victim's specific vulnerabilities. This looks different for each victim some examples are: poverty, experiencing homelessness, being a part of a disenfranchised group, history of trauma or abuse.
Some trafficking grooming tactics have started moving away from the dark web and instead are happening on daily used internet and social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Fortnite, Tinder, and Snapchat.
For more information about Human Trafficking please visit:
Information Retrieved From:
Cotter, A. (2020, June 23). Trafficking in persons in Canada, 2018. Statistics Canada
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2020001/article/00006-eng.htm
Public Safety Canada (2021, March 05). Government of Canada.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/campaigns/human-trafficking.html
Roudometkina, A., & Wakeford, K. (2018, June 15). Publications & Resources.
Native Women’s Association of Canada. https://www.nwac.ca/browse/.