How can we stop human trafficking where it starts? By addressing demand. Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) Addressing Demand program and Man-to-Man Campaign focus on resources and strategies for uniting key stakeholders (including task forces, buyer diversion programs, community groups, corporate businesses, and youth-serving organizations) to equip them with the information and resources to combat human trafficking at its root cause. This presentation will focus on demand for sex trafficking and the importance of reducing or ending it, including take-away materials with resources and action steps to affect cultural change to reduce exploitation. The sale of people for commercial sex, whether for sex acts, pornography, live sex cams, or any other commercial sexual exploitation venture is predicated on the business model of supply and demand. Sex-buying behavior fuels the illicit sex trade, which includes sex trafficking of minors, and the sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud, or coercion. At the end of the day, if no one purchased commercial sex, the crime of sex trafficking would not exist. Therefore, it’s imperative to address the issue of demand. TAT created its Man-to-Man Campaign to address and reduce demand for those willing to join in stopping this problem where it starts. No buyer=no victim=no sex trafficking. Attendees will learn about the role demand plays in human trafficking, who is affected by the demand for commercial sex and forced labor, and how everyone can play a role in combating human trafficking.
Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information (written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing to attendees.
Louie Greek is a Training Specialist with Truckers Against Trafficking, an organization that exists to educate, equip, empower, and mobilize members of the transportation industry to combat human trafficking. Mr. Greek has over 25 years of law enforcement, military, and humanitarian aid experience and has been fighting human trafficking since 2013.