Hazel Inglis / 10/13/08 / 5:23pm / global crime
There are 2.5 million people that are forced into labor at any given time estimates the UN. Most of the people that are being trafficked are for the ages 18 to 24; 52% of them are men and 49% of the profit generated from trafficking are in industrialized economies. There are 1.2 million children trafficked per year and it is estimated that 12,000 children are still employed in the Ivory Coast’s cocoa plantations, and hundreds sold by their parents to work underwater for fisherman on Ghana’s Lake Volta where their nimble fingers can untangle trapped nets easily. The UN estimates that 43% of people that are trafficked are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation. Trafficking is the third largest shadow economy, trailing after drugs and arms and is the fastest growing global crime. “We don’t know much about the size of the iceberg that lies beneath,” admitted Antonio Mario Costa, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); “…and there is the act of supply and demand- those who do the trafficking.
Most people think of slavery as a thing of the past, but it is not. This article shows that millions of people are being trafficked daily. I think this is very sad; the average American gets up every morning and thinks about what they are going to eat, about school and/or work and not about if they are going to be kidnapped into slavery or if the job they take oversea is really a good job where they can move ahead or if they are really getting into a prostitution ring.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7243612.stm
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