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Human Trafficking Growth Prompts Calls for Enforcement
The United Nations reports that over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. U.S. political and civic leaders are now calling for a more aggressive response to this modern day form of slavery...
Audio Report
Human rights organizations say human trafficking has become a huge global problem. The number of victims is staggering, says Gary Haugen, president of International Justice Mission, a non-government organization that promotes human rights.
"National Geographic estimates that all forms of human trafficking combined victimizes about 27 million people in slavery,” he says. “That is more people in slavery in our world today than were extracted from Africa during 400 years of transatlantic slave trade."
Mr. Haugen says sex trafficking is the most brutal form of trafficking. UNICEF reports that, each year, about 1 million children are sold or otherwise recruited into this criminal business.
Sex trafficking is believed to be growing the fastest in Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In Asia, girls from villages in Nepal and Bangladesh -- the majority of whom are under 18 -- are sold to brothels in India for $1,000. The European Policy Agency estimates that the industry is now worth several billion dollars a year.
Originally posted by loam
Normally, I would bristle at the notion of the government regulating citizen behavior outside of US soil. But if we can have the "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," which does precisely that, I see no problem making it criminal in this case for any US citizen to participate as a "customer" of this despicable trade.
Originally posted by loam
Normally, I would bristle at the notion of the government regulating citizen behavior outside of US soil. But if we can have the "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act," which does precisely that, I see no problem making it criminal in this case for any US citizen to participate as a "customer" of this despicable trade.
[edit on 12-11-2005 by loam]
Originally posted by Murcielago
...its not in the US...
US Sex Slave Trade Estimates
...In the US, it's estimated that between 80,000 and 120,000 foreign women are being sexually exploited by gangs of sex-slave traffickers. Some of the crime gangs operating in states such as New York and New Jersey are Koreans and Mexicans...
Mom Arrested For Offering Toddler For Sex On Web
MARTINEZ -- A 22-year-old Martinez mother has been arrested after police say she allegedly offered her four-year-old child for $500 to sexual predators surfing the Internet in a Craigslist web personal ad...
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Originally posted by Desolate Cancer
But it was a rather depressing documentary and made me realize how lucky we in the US are and how Fkd up humans in this world really are.
Originally posted by ekul08
But i think the UN needs to make a serious law about this being illegal on both sides, worldwide.
Originally posted by suzy ryan
A trade as vile as this can only exist and thrive with alot of "good and respected" people (men and women) providing cover and silenceing those who speak out.