Hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked across international borders every year. It is estimated that 80 percent of those are women. and half are children. Millions more are trafficked into sexual servitude and forced labor within their own countries. In Iran. children are trafficked into sexual slavery and forced into involuntary servitude as beggars and day laborers. In Syria. women trafficked from South and Southeast Asia are forced to work as domestic servants. and women from Eastern Europe and Iraq are forced into prostitution. In China. up to 90 percent of North Korean refugee women fall prey to traffickers who sell them into sexual slavery. In our own hemisphere. Mr.