‘Low risk, high reward’: How sex traffickers use coercive debt to exploit survivors

Coercive debt and financial abuse are a systematic part of how sex traffickers operate in Canada with at least a quarter of all survivors dealing with fraudulent debt. Julia Drydyk, executive director of the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking says that research they did on human trafficking corridors in Canada found that traffickers were systematically putting the expenses associated with the trafficking in the victim’s names to control them and avoid prosecution.

• ‘Low risk, high reward’: How sex traffickers use coercive debt to exploit survivors