Introduction

Human trafficking is called modern day slavery. Human trafficking occurs worldwide, and the United States is second only to Germany as a destination market for trafficking victims. Human trafficking is defined as “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.” Human trafficking is a major domestic and international public health problem. Human trafficking can present as forced or bonded child and adult labor, debt bondage for migrant workers, child soldiers, in addition to sex trafficking.