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50% – Percent of transnational victims who are children.
80% – Percent of transnational victims who are women and girls.
70% – Percent of female victims who are trafficked into the commercial sex industry. This means that 30% of female victims are victims of forced labor.
32 billion – Total yearly profits generated by the human trafficking industry.
27 million – Number of people in modern-day slavery across the world.
•Human trafficking is now the second largest and fastest growing source of money for organized crime.
•For every one child rescued from a brothel, there are thousands of kids to take their place.
I visited http://www.eastsidewomenofpurpose.com/about.html and in the about us section the first lines to grab my attention were “Poverty forces parents to think and do the unthinkable “’should I sell my child?”’ that line there is just jaw dropping to me. After reviewing statistics on human trafficking I felt saddened by the information I had obtained. Human trafficking is now the second and largest growing form of organized crime in the entire world. 50% percent of the victims are children. 80% are women and children. I now wonder how a parent can sell their child into slave labor crime where their child will be used mainly for sexual reasons. Sex for money. I ask myself how they cannot possibly understand how traumatic it must be for their child to be forced without a say into sex labor. Children are supposed to lead a happy, careless life with no important decisions to be made. Imagine a young girl or boy entering the life as a sexual object because that if what they must be seen as to the organizers. The human trafficking organizers must have no sentiments towards the children human trafficking.
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The newly passed bill allows state police the authority to crack down on these terrible offenses. The sad this is with this being such so-called civil rights groups being so vocal against it (let alone the fact that very few people - even attorney general Eric Holder - have read the bill) that they overlook the policies implemented to help protect people.
Read SB 1070, Section 13-2319.
Have you read "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn? I think you'd really like it. It's an excellent book!!