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Human trafficking

Thursday, 13 February 2020 1:05 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 13 February 2020 3:20 AM ]

Human trafficking, one of the most profitable illegal businesses in the world, and combined with modern day slavery, affects millions of men, women and children, across the globe and ages, taking advantage of some of the most vulnerable people to feed the greedy needs of the rich.

The United Nations has defined Human Trafficking as an act of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force, or other forms of coercion. Broken down, into simpler terms, it means movement or recruitment, by deception or coercion, for the purpose of exploitation. Many associated trafficking from the days of slavery, when rich white land owners exploited Africans and sent them to work on the plantations of the Americas, treating the slaves as nothing more than commodities. Today the game has changed, but the exploitation and abuse of the victims remains the same.

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