By Alexa Telano | Development Associate
3 Generations has been documenting sex trafficking for 13 years. We have, and will continue to insist that sex trafficking is a human rights abuse. It remains one of the world's fastest-growing crimes and a multi-billion dollar industry.
January 2023 was National Human Trafficking Prevention Month: a commitment to empower survivors of all forms of human trafficking, to prosecute traffickers, and to bring an end to human trafficking in the United States and around the world. Reflecting on last month's call to action, we are highlighting the alarming number of Native American women who are sex trafficked, and how these crimes go grossly unnoticed and under-reported.
According to the FBI, 40 percent of victims of sex trafficking are Native, yet Native women represent 10 percent or less of the general population. Racism and the historical mistreatment of marginalized communities leave minority and low-income youth vulnerable to sex trafficking. Indigenous people face a unique relationship with sexual exploitation as sex trafficking of contemporary Indigenous women is seen as “almost indistinguishable from the colonial tactics of enslavement, exploitation, exportation, and relocation.”
Although these human rights abuses remain in the shadows, at 3 Generations we will continue to advocate for sex trafficking survivors, hear their stories, document their truth and demand change. You can help us make a difference and amplify the voices of survivors.
For more information about this issue please visit our website and connect with us on social media @3_generations.
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