CONSIDER THIS:

• In most countries, traffickers operate with almost total impunity.
• Transnational trafficking is increasing as economic and logistical obstacles to the transport of human beings diminish.
• According to the 2007 U.S. government report on trafficking, about 800,000 people are forced across national borders, with millions trafficked within their own countries.
• About 80 percent of transnational victims are women and girls, while up to 50 percent are minors.
• The International Labor Organization estimates there are 218 million working children between the ages of 5 and 17
• The International Labor Organization estimates 8.4 million children worldwide ages 5 to 17 are enslaved.
• The ILO estimates there are 12.3 million people in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor and sexual servitude at any given time.
• In the United Kingdom, about 85 percent of women working in brothels were brought in from foreign countries, according to the BBC.
• The U.S. Department of Public Affairs reports in a nine-country study that 60 to 75 percent of women in prostitution were raped and 70 to 95 percent were physically assaulted.
• Of the 153 states surveyed in Amnesty International’s 2007 annual report, at least 102 had resorted to torture or other ill-treatment.
• About 45,000 to 50,000 women and children are brought to the U.S. as slaves every year, the CIA says.
• Geneva Global managed 69 grants totaling $2 million in the Human Liberty sector in 2006, impacting 136,766 lives, at a cost per Life Changed of $40.48.

Overview

Broadly speaking, Human Liberty is freedom. Too often, life and prosperity within developing nations is threatened by corruption, injustice and unchecked greed.

Each year, more than 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are forced across national borders. Even more people are held captive within their home countries. In total, the number of slaves in the world today exceeds 27 million - more than the population of the 10 largest American cities combined.

Sector Performance 2006

• Projects Funded: 69
• Expected Lives Changed: 136,766
• Client Investments Managed: $2,871,936
• Cost per Life Impacted: $40.48

Active Funds

• Ghana Child Labor
• Mumbai HIV/AIDS and Human Trafficking
• North India Human Liberty