The fact remains that the report’s rating of over 170 countries is both thorough and largely consistent with facts as observed, reported by the media and examined in other comprehensive reports pertaining to the same issue. Indeed, the UN’s own Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, launched by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in February 2009, affirms much of the State Departments’ findings regarding the pattern of abuses reported around the world, most noticeably in Africa, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.
The report examined the calamity and governmental responses to the exploitation of people, including children, for the purposes of forced labour, sexual servitude and stolen organs. At least 12.3 million adults and children are used to sustain the thriving business of modern-day slavery. One can only predict that the number is much higher, considering that human traffickers have little interest in divulging exact data.
Khaleej Times Online , Of Hunger and Human Trafficking
Ramzy Baroud (Issues), 24 June 2009
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