Human Trafficking
WHAT: Human Trafficking is a crime that involves exploiting, compelling, or coercing a person to provide labor, services, or commercial sex acts.
Traffickers trick, defraud, or physically force victims into providing commercial sex. Victims are lied to, assaulted, threatened, or manipulated into working under inhumane, illegal, or otherwise unacceptable conditions,
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations define human trafficking as:
a) Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
b) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)).
For Help call 1 (888) 373-7888, National Human Trafficking Hotline
If you are in NYC, call (646) 610-7272
Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence is an umbrella term that encompasses both Intimate Partner Violence and Family Violence.
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner Violence is a pattern of coercive and abusive behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship. This includes people with any current or former romantic involvement, for example dating, previously dating, on again/off again, married, divorced, living together or apart. Intimate partner violence can occur between people of any gender identity or sexual orientation, and can include manipulation, threats, or the actual use of physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, psychological, or financial abuse.
Family Violence
Family Violence is any abusive behavior that occurs between members of a family or household who are not involved in a romantic relationship. This includes chosen family as well as people related by blood, marriage, foster care, adoption or any other familial relationships. Family violence can include threats or the actual use of physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, psychological, or financial abuse.
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE)
If you're in immediate danger, call 911