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Podcast: Utah Women & Leadership Podcast
Episode: Human Trafficking Among Utah Girls and Women
Description: Human trafficking is a global problem that involves the exploitation of people for profit through the means of force, fraud, or coercion. It takes a variety of forms, including forced labor, debt bondage, domestic servitude, and sexual exploitation. Despite public perceptions that human trafficking is only an international problem, it occurs in the United States and even within urban and rural areas of Utah. Recently, the Utah Women & Leadership Project published a research snapshot on this very topic. The snapshot examined human trafficking definitions and contributing factors, the direct and indirect costs and consequences of human trafficking, the stats...