Human trafficking can take many forms, including:

Sex trafficking
The use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel someone to perform commercial sex acts. This includes working in pornography, phone sex, escort agencies, and internet chat rooms.

Forced labor
The use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel someone to work or provide services, often for low or no pay and in poor conditions. This can include debt bondage, where someone is forced to work to pay off a debt.

Domestic servitude
A type of labor trafficking where someone is forced to perform domestic chores, such as cleaning, laundry, and caring for children and elderly family members.

Forced marriage
A type of human trafficking that goes beyond the traditions of arranged marriages in many cultures.

Forced crime
A type of human trafficking that includes begging, pick-pocketing, selling drugs, and bag snatching.

Organ harvesting
A type of human trafficking where people are trafficked to sell their organs for transplant.

Child labor
A type of human trafficking where children are bought and sold as employees, or where parents sell their children to traffickers.
Traffickers often use physical, psychological, or substance abuse to maintain power and control over their victims.

Ritual Abuse
Ritual abuse is “a calculated, systematic process whereby victims may be brainwashed and programmed, using many different techniques, to disown and distort our own sense of self and reality.” In such abuse “triggers” and programming may have been placed around primary biological and survival functions, including eating, sleeping, breathing, sexuality, elimination, emotions, the five senses, and human bonding. Victims may have been forced and manipulated into breaking primary bonds to survive emotionally and physically.