2013-09-192013-09-192005http://hdl.handle.net/11212/435http://isw.sagepub.com/content/48/2/136.full.pdf+htmlAn estimated 1.2 million women and girls enter the global commercial sex market every year (UNDP, 2000) through human trafficking, of whom 35 percent are estimated to be under 18 (Hughes, 2000; Human Rights Watch, 1995a; Kanics, 1998). Ranked as the third most serious illegal trade after drugs and weapons, and considered a modern form of slavery (Bales, 1999; Hughes, 2000), human trafficking is the illegal moving and selling of human beings across countries and continents in exchange for financial or other compensation (Toepfer and Wells, 1994). Trafficking often involves coercion, deception, and even abduction.pdfTraffickingInternational ResourcesText