Human Trafficking Treating human beings as a commodity to be used, abused, and discarded when no longer useful to their owners.
Human Trafficking Ripping young girls away from their families and villages and forcibly taken across international boundaries to become sex slaves.
Human Trafficking Exploiting boys and girls as slave labor. Children wake at 4 am and walk for miles to a forest where they gather firewood. The firewood is strapped on their small backs and they are forced to carry it and sell it in the marketplace. At night they sleep in warehouses where they are vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse. They are fed very little and paid absolutely nothing.
Human Trafficking Lured by advertisements for beauty contests, modeling or domestic help, young people travel to other countries only to wake up in a drug-induced stupor, living a life of exploitation, degradation and humiliation.
Human Trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Some agencies are now reporting that, after the drug trade, it is now tied with illegal arms sales as the 2nd largest criminal activity.
