With any major sporting event (think Super Bowls, the Olympics… and Formula 1) comes an increase in human trafficking, particularly commercial sex.

 

The Formula 1 race is coming to Austin on November 16-18.  Join Allies of Central Texas and fellow Georgetown residents in bringing human trafficking awareness to the race’s visitors.

 

Email abanda@southwestern.edu for information about joining the task force. 

 

Think it won’t happen in your community?  Think again.  A QUARTER of all U.S. human trafficking cases originate in Texas! 

 

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines human trafficking as:

  1. the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services
  2. through the use of force, fraud, or coercion
  3. for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, slavery or forced commercial sex acts.

 

Learn more about human trafficking and what you can do to help:

http://alliesctx.wordpress.com/what-is-human-trafficking/

http://www.tradeinhope.com/Home.html