Human trafficking everyone’s issue
While human trafficking has been active throughout time, in the past decade it has gained proportionate attention. A modern-day slavery, human trafficking is defined as the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.
According to the Polaris Project, a website dedicated to combating modern-day slavery, the yearly profits created by the human trafficking industry are estimated to be $32 billion.
The number of slaves worldwide is estimated to be 27 million. Of that, 80 percent are women. Fifty percent of that number are children.
In 2000, the number of children and youth in the United States estimated to be at risk of sexual exploitation was 244,000.
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