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Human Trafficking - Did you know.....
- Trafficking in human beings is now the third-largest moneymaking
venture in the world, after illegal weapons and drugs. In fact,
the United Nations estimates that the trade nets organized crime
more than $12 billion a year” (Victor Malarek The Natashas:
Inside the New Global Sex Trade).
- The UN estimates that around 4 million people a year are now
traded against their will to work in some form of slavery.
- each day in India nearly 200 girls and women are forced into the
sex trade
- the birth of a girl is often a burden and she is not fed properly,
loved or educated
- mortality and suicide rates for Indian women are among the
highest in the world.
- As many as 50,000 women and children from Asia, Latin America,
and Eastern Europe are brought to the U.S. under false pretenses
each year and forced to work as prostitutes, abused laborers or
servants (Joel Brinkley NYT citing CIA report).
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