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The sexual exploitation of children and women by local and global sex industries constitutes a fundamental violation of human rights. It touches every country, rich or poor. This massive and escalating problem must end.
Below are some statistics that shows the extent of this global problem.
45% of British subscribers to a US-based child pornography web site were found to be police officers, according to The Guardian, UK
Child pornography crimes have increased by 1500% since 1988
In 1998, the United States was the world's largest consumer of child pornography.
A content analysis of Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler done between 1954 and 1978 reveals close to 4,000 images of children in sexual and violent situations.
There are an estimated 5,000 web sites on child pornography. (Department of Justice, "Sex Criminals Online," A&E, 11 April 1998).
The international child porn industry have gone from $0.00 ten years ago (virtually nonexistent) to an estimated 20 to 30 billion dollars annually
The percentage of these white girls living in the former Soviet Union that become sexual slaves is roughly 15% (100 000 of the about 660 000 girls born each year)
Over 700 000 women and girls are being kept as sexual slaves over the world
About 40,000 children in South Africa are involved in child prostitution and the figures are rising as more and more children are driven from their homes because of poverty, neglect and abuse
5000 - 7000 Nepalese girls are trafficked to India every year
100 000 - 160 000 Nepalese girls are in India
2000 Indian children trafficked to Mecca over 3 years
1/2 of 100 000 (50 000) girl prostitutes between 10-14 in Bombay are from Nepal and kept in brothels against their will
In 1995, 354 670 women were the victims of a rape or sexual assault
More than 2 million children are being sexually exploited in Latin America. (Organization of American States)
Since 1994, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, has kidnapped 8,000 children. Ninety percent of LRA soldiers are abducted children
Australia - International crime syndicates traffic drugs and women, including 10 small syndicates that traffic 300 Thai women yearly
Approximately 500,000 women are annually trafficked into Western Europe
Approximately 20,000 women and possibly up to 50,000 are annually trafficked into United States
According to the FBI, there are at least 25 organized Russian gangs trafficking women into the United States
About twelve 16-30-year-old Asian girls and women were trafficked into Canada each week on visitor's permits and sold into prostitution
Criminal groups make an estimated $7 billion annually by trafficking in women from Russian and other former Soviet Republics
25 000 children between 12 and 17 years old in the Antilles are sex workers.