Hotels can also be the venue or transit location for forced sexual exploitation of adults and children. In the US, there are reports of third parties renting rooms, “selling” victims, forcing victims into sexual acts for financial gain, or having victims meet potential clients in hotels.* A 2015 report by Polaris identified 1,434 cases of trafficking in hotels and motels in the US between December 2007 and February 2015. From these cases, 1,867 victims were identified, 92 percent of whom had experienced sex trafficking, five percent labour trafficking, and two percent had experienced both. Ninety-four percent were female.**
* ECPAT USA 2017. “No Vacancy for Child Sex Traf f ickers Impact Repor t.” Available from: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/594970e91b631b3571be12e2/t/59c9b6bf b07869cc5d792b8c/1506391761747/NoVacany_Repor t.pdf. [23 August 2019].
** Polaris 2015, “Human Trafficking the Hotel Industry”. Available from: https://polarisproject.org /sites/default/f iles/human-trafficking-hotel-industry-recommendations.pdf. [23 August 2019].
Read the content of the statement and select:
- Yes- If the company makes reference to the risk of sexual explotation/trafficking in its operations and/or supply chains?
- No- If the company makes reference to the risk of sexual explotation/trafficking in its operations and/or supply chains?
For each value, please include a comment that copies relevant information and page numbers from the statement.
* Note on choosing the Year of your answer
Read the MSA Statement carefully to find out what year it covers.
When a statement is referring to a Financial Year (FY) ending in Q1 or early Q2, it should be labeled with the previous year. Example:
- Statement for FY2018/19 ending in April 2019 = 2018
- Statement for FY2018/19 ending in May 2019 (or later) = 2019