- There are more people enslaved today than at any other point in human history.
- Human trafficking is the world's second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs and weapons.
- There are an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 children, women and men trafficked across
international borders annually.
- An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 individuals are trafficked into the USA each year.
- Approximately 80% of human trafficking victims are female, and up to 50% are children.
- Sex trafficking is an engine of the global AIDS epidemic.
- The total market value of of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in excess of $32 billion.
Human trafficking and slavery is not something that is merely "over there." All 50 states have been affected by human trafficking and slavery in some manner. Here are some stats regarding our domestic situation here in the USA. These stats are from Not For Sale's website also:
- 100,000 to 300,000 children in America are at risk for sex trafficking each year.
- 12 is the average age of entry into pornography and prostitution.
- In the U.S. the sale of child pornography is a $3 billion annual industry.
- 55% of child-pornography on the Internet comes from the U.S.
- As many as 2.8 million children liv eon the streets, a third of whom are lured into prostitution
within 48 hours of leaving home.
- Pimps can earn up to $632,000 annually by selling four young women or children.
- Three domestic minor sex trafficking victims interviewed were sold 10-15 times per night, 6 days
a week, totaling between 9,360 and 14,040 sex acts in a year.
Here are just a few organizations that are working domestically and around the globe to help re-abolish slavery:
Not for Sale Campaign
The Crossover Foundation (India)
Love146
Will you join in the movement to help re-abolish slavery?
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