Aug 27, 2009

USA: Activism to Stop Human Trafficking

Global Voices


Human trafficking in the United States is an often undetected problem because the victims are usually hidden from the public view. The victims are enslaved into illegal jobs often in the sweatshop labor or clandestine sex services. Frequently the victims are minors brought into the United States by organized crime cartels.

The organization Stop Child Trafficking Now estimates that over 2.5 million children—most of them girls—are sold into the sex trade every year. Victims can be as young as 4 or 5 years of age, who often are abducted from their homes never to be heard from again. Human rights groups and individuals are working towards educating the local community about this issue as well as making efforts to combat human trafficking in the U.S. and helping victims caught up in the human trafficking networks.... Read more

1 comment:

  1. not only in the USA that human trafficking are high but also in other countries like singapore, china and japan. the problem is that there is only a little details on how this can be solved by the government. i hope and we all hope that this could stop.

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