Source Country Conditions Impact Destination Country Exploitation

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A prostitute sits in the dark as she waits for customers near a bar district in Shanghai. June, 2003. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

In order to fully understand the ways survivors experience their exploitation and the ways traffickers defraud and coerce victims from other nations, we have to make an effort to understand the conditions survivors and traffickers experience in the source countries.