- Brief introduction to trafficking in the Americas, highlighting pertinent issues
- Focuses on trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation
- Human Rights framework
- Touches on 'supply' side of trafficking including racist, sexist, and misogynist stereotypes of women, as well as poverty, lack of access to formal channels of migration, and conflict/post-conflict situations as some of the contributing factors
- Discusses how traffickers operate with impunity, create conditions of dependency, debt bondage, may use physical threats and violence against victims
- Punctuates adverse health consequences and implications for victims of trafficking