New York businesses are encouraged to display the Human Trafficking Poster in a visible location within the establishment to spread awareness and assist in the fight against human trafficking.
Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion to make someone work against their will. Victims of human trafficking are often threatened with violence to themselves or their families, lured with false promises of well-paying jobs or future benefits such as green cards, told they must work for free or for little wages or to pay off debts, threatened with deportation or false arrest or are otherwise manipulated to compel labor.
In 2020, the non-profit, non-governmental National Human Trafficking Hotline received a total of 51,667 substantive phone calls, text, Webchats, emails or online tip reports nationwide. The Resource Center provides help and referral to services for victims and survivors of human trafficking, as well as training and general information for those who wish to provide assistance for victims.