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Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
I've been learning about the Art of War
[edit on 16-12-2005 by SpartanKingLeonidas]
Originally posted by Souljah
Human trafficking has tied with the illegal arms industry as the largest and fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world after the illicit drug trade.
Inter Press Service News Agency
There are 27 million people serving as literal slaves around the world, and every year 600,000 to 800,000 victims are trafficked across international borders, half of whom are children.
This 9.5-billion-dollar a year industry is hardly limited to the developing world, with 14,500 to 17,500 victims trafficked into the United States every year, according to the U.S. State Department.
“We have to make sure that when we are talking about child trafficking that we include the U.S. victims,” says Rachel Lloyd, a survivor of child slavery and founder of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services.
New York, California, Florida and Texas have the highest rates of slavery in the U.S., and close to 300,000 U.S. boys and girls are at risk of falling into the sex trade.
Wagner added that the estimated number of trafficking victims in the U.S.—50,000—is most likely much greater. It is assumed that one-third are children.
While women and children are particularly vulnerable to trafficking for the sex trade, human trafficking is not limited to sexual exploitation. It also includes people who are forced into marriage or into bonded labour markets, such as sweatshops, agricultural plantations and domestic service.
The Global Programme Against Trafficking in Human Beings was designed by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute and launched in March 1999.
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When you say "Human Trafficking, you always think of some Third World Countries or countries from the Eastern European Countries, where mostly Children and Women become the Victims.
But the real Story is a Little different.
If you think that United States are not affected by it, you are wrong - 50.000 is the estimate number of US trafficking victims, with 300.000 boys and girls at RISK of falling into a sex-trade ring.
Now that we know this fact, reading articles such as - More Than 1,000 Katrina Children Still Missing, makes you think twice, about these 1000+ Children...
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Why is learning about the Art of War, a scary thought?
To be prepared for War, & not need to go to War is the ultimate of both Worlds. It is better to be trained in something you may never need, than to be in need of it & never have been trained.