Nonprofits, Medical Professionals Tackle Human Trafficking as a Health-Care Crisis [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/7/2012:00 PM

By Erin Blakemore, The Washington Post, January 4, 2020

An emergency room patient has a broken bone. Could she suffer from human trafficking, too?

Thanks to a growing call to treat trafficking as a public health problem, an ER worker who treats a trafficking victim might be able to connect the dots.

Trafficking occurs when someone exploits someone else sexually or makes them perform labor against their will. According to the United Nations’ International Labor Organization, an estimated 24.9 million people are being trafficked worldwide. The vast majority are women, and 1 in 4 victims are children.

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