Truth is only dangerous to the dangerous!The award winning, flagship blog of Mike Hitchen Online. Read by government departments, NGOs, and numerous agencies. First published May 2005, the blog has more than 24,000 articles and 500 plus topics including Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues,Corruption, Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation,Child Soldiers, Zimbabwe, Iran, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Burma and the tragic ongoing betrayal of Madeleine McCann.
Children At Risk - Human Trafficking is modern day slavery. It is the second largest criminal industry in the world and yields an estimated $9 billion in profit each year. Human Trafficking is a high-profit, low-risk endeavor for traffickers and often carries penalties far less severe than that of drug trafficking. For that reason, there is now an international and domestic market the trade of human beings.
Every year about 18,000 victims are brought to the U.S. for the purposes of labor and sex trafficking. About 80% are woman and children.
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