Slavery

FAST FACTS
1.Slavery today is defined as forced labor without pay under threat of violence.

2.600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked internationally every year. Approximately 80% of them are women and children.

3.Slavery was officially abolished worldwide at the 1927 Slavery Convention, yet it continues to thrive thanks to the complicity of some governments and the ignorance of much of the world.

4.In the 2000 Refugee Report, “Trafficking in Women and Children: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery,” former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calls human trafficking “the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.”

5.Slavery is an extremely profitable, international industry. Experts estimate trafficking in the US yields $9 billion every year. Around the world, trafficking in women for commercial sex purposes nets $6 billion per year. The trade of human flesh is so lucrative that authorities complain that even as they close in on one smuggling ring in the US, another one pops up.

6.The four most common types of slavery are: chattel slavery, debt bondage, forced labor, and sexual slavery.