Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking is a massive global enterprise based upon force, coercion and deception. Traffickers transport or detain their victims for the purpose of exploitation and profit through acts of sexual violence. This trade in rape for profit victimizes thousands of women and children every year.

THE FACTS:

• Human trafficking is the world’s third largest criminal enterprise, after drugs and weapons.
  (U.S. Department of State)
• Worldwide, there are nearly two million children in the commercial sex trade.
  (UNICEF)
• There are an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 children, women and men trafficked across international borders annually.
  (U.S. Department of State)
• Approximately 80 percent of human trafficking victims are women and girls, and up to 50 percent are minors.
  (U.S. Department of State)
• The total market value of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in excess of $32 billion.
  (U.N.)
• Sex trafficking is an engine of the global AIDS epidemic.
  (U.S. Department of State)

http://www.state.gov/g/tip/