End Internet Trafficking Coalition

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	Making Our Internet Safe From Human Trafficking Through Coalition Building The Barnaba Institute, FAIR Fund, Love146, SAFEHS
	End Internet Trafficking Coalition: Alexis Taylor Litos, Executive Director,`The Barnaba Institute Andrea Powell, Executive Director and Co-Founder FAIR Fund Annie Fukushima, Executive Director SAFEHS Kathy Maskell, US Advocacy Director Love146 Somanjana C. Bhattacharya, Intern Love146 Matthew Dorozenski, The Barnaba Institute		In Focus for 2008: Craigslist, a multi-million dollar internet and partly owned subsidiary of eBay, is a major conduit for internet prostitution, including child sexual exploitation. According to Love146 research, 25,000 ads are posted everyday on Craigslist “Erotic Services” section of Craigslist, and as we as organizations working to combat human trafficking know, where there is prostitution there is trafficking. Sex trafficking is “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act” (TVPA 2000). Under federal law the prostitution of anyone person under the age of 18 years-old is a victim of human trafficking. In addition, government policy states that any person who is prostituted under the age of 18 years-old who is a trafficked person. The Issue: Craigslist has no monitoring system or employees to ensure that trafficked children are not posted through their website in advertisements. Instead, Craigslist relies on users to enforce their policies. Numerous cases tracked by Love146 and other national organizations including Polaris Project validate the high incidence of human trafficking on Craigslist including the trafficking of minors.
			The End Internet Trafficking Coalition Institutional Membership: Barnaba Institute: www.barnabainstitute.org FAIR Fund: www.fairfund.org Love146: www.love146.org SAFEHS: www.safehs.com