Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Human Trafficking in Native Hawaiian Communities
This document includes statistics and information on domestic violence and human trafficking in Native Hawaiian communities by the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence.
In interviews with 22 individuals in Hawai’i, of which 15 were female survivors of sex trafficking and 7 were parents, close family members, or guardians of a child who was a victim of sex trafficking:
- 77.3% of sex trafficking victims were Native Hawaiian.
- 72.2% of victims of all races/ethnicities were first trafficked by a family member and 16.6% by a drug dealer
In a study of individuals (12+ years old) from five Hawaiian islands receiving services from a social services agency, 100 victims of sex trafficking were identified
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- 64% of victims identified as being all or some Native Hawaiian (11.3% were Native Hawaiian and 52.6% part Native Hawaiian).*
- 25.8% of victims of all races/ethnicities were trafficked by a family member, 24.7% were trafficked by a friend, and 22.7% were trafficked by a boyfriend.
- Of the 23 victims who had been under 18 when they were sex trafficked, 13% were Hawaiian and 47.8% were part Native Hawaiian.
* Given that full or part Native Hawaiians made up 46% of all 363 participants surveyed in the study, they are disproportionately overrepresented among sex trafficking victims