"The greatest and most shameful regrets of history is always about the truth we failed to tell."—Haugen 2005
Humans are being taken against their will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude. Family members and friends are deceiving parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to ten jumbo jets every day. This is a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola. victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. They are stripped of their rights and their worth.
600,000-800,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year. Approximately 80 per cent are women and girls. Up to 50% are minors.
Human trafficking in the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drugs trafficking. There are even reports that some trafficking groups are switching their cargo from drugs to human beings, in a search of high profits at lower risk. Just thought we should remember these things. We can actually do things to stop it. But most of the time, we don't think about it. This is here to think about.
Wow. Those statistics are really horrifying.
ReplyDeleteI know. These facts are barely ever talked about. It's always happening right under our noses. I bet if we actually became aware of these things happening all around us, we could stop a lot of the trafficking. The problem is that not many know the truth about it.
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