ABSTRACT
This chapter is partly informed by my own reflections as a scholar-activist working with sex trafficking victims from 2013 to 2017. There are multiple forms of human trafficking, including labour trafficking, sex trafficking, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, the use of child labour, and trafficking in human organs. Sex trafficking is the most well-known form of human trafficking. Regardless of the problems associated with estimating the size of the problem, it seems that the majority of cases involve people trafficked from the Global South to the Global North, reflecting wider patterns of global inequality. Unfortunately, in activist debates, sex trafficking is sometimes conflated with prostitution, even though they are quite distinct, legally and conceptually. There is not a single sex industry anywhere in the world that does not include people forced against their will to perform sexual acts.
