1.   Girls are trafficked into many industries besides brothels.
Most human trafficking that involves women and girls happens for reasons other than sexual exploitation. Other industries where girls are trafficked include; factories, private homes, fisheries and agricultural plantations.

2.  Trafficking is visible; trafficking is accepted.
Issues that involve migrant, illegal and other forms of human labour and trafficking are so frequent and indistinguishable that exploitation goes unnoticed. 

3.  Dirty jobs fuel trafficking demand.
The human trafficking industry is stimulated by 3D jobs (dirty, degrading and dangerous) that exploit desperate workers for cheap labour to keep industries profitable. Victims are often isolated from their community and don’t know the local language, so it is hard for them to understand their rights.

4.  People smuggling is not the correct picture of human trafficking.
Victims do not have to cross borders in order for trafficking to have occurred. Once the victim is coerced or tricked into exploitive labour or their rights are denied, trafficking has occurred.

5.  Trafficking victims most often rescue themselves.
Many people who have become victims of human trafficking are able to free themselves and often times become strong advocates in the fight against human exploitation. Victim’s stories continually reveal that governments and communities fall far short in protecting their citizens from trafficking.

6.  Adoption is still a trafficking risk.
Babies adopted by brothels or for organ donation are realities in the human trafficking industry. While adoption is often not illicit or unethical, the adoption industry becoming so intertwined with market behavior that child selling and coercion are risks, particularly in poor communities.

7.  As many as one in five trafficking survivors fall prey a second time.
Trafficking victims may be exploited a second time, even after returning home.  Socio-economic and lifestyle situations of those who have been trafficked do not always change and the stigmas attached to trafficking are so shameful that some victims are re-trafficked. Their traffickers often keep contact and use their vulnerabilities to exploit them a second time. 

8.  Boys and men are trafficked too.
Women are not the only victims of human trafficking. Despite the misconception that males are in control of their migration, they make up 20% of trafficking victims. Some industries where boys and men are trafficked are the fishing industry and for commercial sexual exploitation.

9.  Disability is attractive to traffickers.
People with disabilities are valued highly in the trafficking industry because they are often worth less to their communities, provoke sympathy from the public and in some cases are unable to communicate their suffering. Traffickers may seek children born with disfigurements because of these advantages. Industries where this is most common are begging and brothels.

10.  There is no one profile of a trafficker.
Traffickers are both male and female who come from a variety of different backgrounds, making it difficult to locate them within the industry. They work in small and large networks and there are often different traffickers for different stages of the trafficking process.