Editing Sexual slavery (section)

===Commercial sexual exploitation of adults===
{{Main|Sex trafficking}}
Commercial sexual exploitation of adults (often referred to as "sex trafficking")<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Lemke|first=Melinda Anne|year=2015|title=Politics, policy, and normative state culture: Texas trafficking policy and education as a medium for social change|url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/32791|journal=Dissertation|pages=2|via=University of Texas Libraries|doi=10.15781/T2HS79|type=Thesis}}</ref> is a type of [[human trafficking]] involving the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people, by coercive or abusive means for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Commercial sexual exploitation is not the only form of human trafficking and estimates vary as to the percentage of human trafficking which is for the purpose of transporting someone into sexual slavery.

The [[BBC News]] cited a report by [[United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime|UNODC]] as listing the most common destinations for victims of human trafficking in 2007 as [[Thailand]], Japan, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the United States. The report lists Thailand, China, Nigeria, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine as major sources of trafficked persons.<ref name="BBC-UN-traffic">
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In 2012, the [[International Labour Organization]] (ILO) reported 20.9&nbsp;million people were subjected to forced labor, and 22% (4.5&nbsp;million) were victims of forced sexual exploitation, 300,000 of them in Developed Economies and the EU.<ref name="OIT">{{cite web |title=ILO 2012 Global estimate of forced labour – Executive summary |url=http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---declaration/documents/publication/wcms_181953.pdf |access-date=28 March 2015 |publisher=International Labour Organization}}</ref> The ILO reported in 2016 that of the estimated 25 million persons in forced labor, 5&nbsp;million were victims of sexual exploitation.<ref>Odhiambo, Agnes & Barr, Heather. (2 Aug 2019). "Opinion:Trafficking survivors are being failed the world over." [https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/trafficking-survivors-failed-world-190801143149035.html Al Jazeera website] Retrieved 4 August 2019.</ref><ref>International Labour Organization. (19 September 2017). Press Release:40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world. [https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_574717/lang--en/index.htm International Labour Organization website] Retrieved 4 August 2019.</ref> However, due to the covertness of sex trafficking, obtaining accurate, reliable statistics poses a challenge for researchers.<ref name="Tiefenbrun">{{cite journal |last1=Tiefenbrun |first1=Susan |date=2002 |title=The Saga of Susannah A U.S. Remedy for Sex Trafficking in Women: The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 |journal=Utah Law Review |volume=107}}</ref>