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Human Trafficking is the world's second largest illegal trade industry.(1) There are more people enslaved today than during the entire trans Atlantic Africa slave trade.(2) Human Trafficking includes but is not limited to sex trafficking, labor trafficking, bonded labor, involuntary servitude, debt bondage, involuntary servitude among guest workers, involuntary domestic servitude, forced child labor, child soldiers, children exploited for commercial sex, and child sex tourism.(3)
This is a multifaceted, multinational evil that affects both developing and developed nations alike.
Sources
1. www.polarisproject.org
2. Paul E. Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 19.
3. US Department of State, "2008 Trafficking in Persons Report," 18-28.
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4/28/2010 [BBC]
The Democratic Republic of Congo is "the rape capital of the world", a senior UN official has said.
Investigation into human trafficking in Scotland
2/9/2010 [BBC]
An inquiry is to begin to discover how many victims of human trafficking there are in Scotland.
