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Unique Business Impact


Traffickers use:
(a) products and services,
(b) properties and facilities, and
(c) employees, to fund and facilitate their crimes.

Many organizations can interrupt his sexual exploitation by taking additional steps that align with their core business.

1. Assess Unique Impact
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Assess the unique impact that your organization’s core operations might have on prevention efforts. 
MasterCard, Visa, Inc, and American Express Co barred their credit cards from being used to pay for ads on backpage.com, a website known to be used by sex traffickers to advertise sexual services of trafficking victims.
Microsoft partnered with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and Seattle Against Slavery to run trafficking-deterrence ads on Bing. These ads targeted sex buyers who used prostitution-related search terms.

2. Action

Take action within your core business to impact trafficking prevention.
Hotel members of the Washington Hospitality Association offered free rooms for law enforcement sting operations in which trafficking victims have been recovered and connected with services.
A reputable commercial real estate company reported to law enforcement regarding suspicions that a tenant that was running a prostitution ring behind the front of a massage business.

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