Project Protect:
Staying Out of the Game
Persons Against the Crime of
Trafficking in Humans
Defining Human Trafficking
• Trafficking vs. Smuggling
• International Human Trafficking
• Domestic Human Trafficking
• Estimates of 27 million slaves
worldwide
Trafficking takes many forms…
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Forced prostitution
Pornography
Forced labour
Servitude
Organ removal
• Focus today on
domestic trafficking,
sexual exploitation &
forced prostitution
But it doesn’t happen in Canada…
right?...
• There are many cases of
human trafficking in front of
Canadian courts
• Last year, 3 teenage girls
in Ottawa were arrested
and charged with
recruitment and trafficking
other teenagers
Do you fit into a box?
Does love
have to hurt?
“I apologize, even though I know it’s lies
I’m tired of the games, I just want her back, I know
I’m a liar
If she ever tries to f*in leave again, I’m a tie her to
the bed
And set this house on fire”
- Eminem, Love the Way You Lie
“Makes a mill' up off a sorry hoe”
- Jay Z, Big Pimpin’
What about Pimps?
“This hoe you can have her, when I'm
done I ain't gon keep her...
She got on Payless, me I got on gator
shoes...
...choose with me, I'll have you
stripping in the street...”
-50 Cent, P.I.M.P
The true colours of a pimp
• Sees people as commodities that can be sold over
and over for financial gain
• Believes profits are worth stripping individuals of
their physical, mental and emotional well-being
• How would YOU define honour, power or success?
Controlling their victim
• The trafficker may use many ways to
control their victim including:
• Physical and/or sexual violence
• Psychological abuse
• Threats/intimidation
• Fear of reprisal and family
Even though there
finding out
are no literal chains
• Blackmail with footage
holding them back,
• Forced drug addiction
would
you
feel
free
• Branding/tattooing
• Fear of police/being arrested to leave?
THE GAME
• The goal is to make money, regardless
of how they treat another person
• Steps:
• Recruitment - finding girls at the mall, online, at
school
• Grooming – making their victims believe they are in
love, treating them like queens
• Isolation /Breaking – controlling who their victim sees
and speaks to, limiting connections with outside
community, forcing them to check in every few hours
Let’s Break the Silence
When you post it, you lose it
Think before you meet
If you want to arrange to meet an online friend, ask an
adult or a trusted friend to go with you. Always meet in a
public place, preferably during the day.
Being Cyber-Wise
• Be careful who you trust—a
person can pretend to be
someone they are not
• Don't use a webcam with
people you do not know
• Think before you post, chat,
upload or download.
• Don’t participate in hurtful
and mean facebook groups
and posts
• Be specific about who can see
your posts
• Limit your friend list—don’t
'friend' random people
• Protect your privacy—don’t
share your password and set
your profile to private
• Your personal details are
valuable—don’t share them
• Protect your reputation—
keep it clean and ask yourself:
would you want others to see
what you upload?
Summing Up…
• Why won’t YOU become a victim?
• Think about your friends, what signs should you look
for?
• Challenge what the media and peers tells us about
being boys, girls and intimate relationships
• Where to get help
• Who to call