Human Trafficking Website 2007. Country by country reports of human
trafficking, modern day slavery, contemporary slavery, debt bondage, serfdom,
forced labor, forced marriage, transferring of wives, inheritance of wives, and
transfer of a child for purposes of exploitation
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century. Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like
situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they
cannot free themselves. Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest human
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A 9-year-old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week. She was trafficked with her entire family from Bihar, one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in India, and sold to the owner of a brick-making factory. With no means of escape, and unable to speak the local language, the family is isolated and lives in terrible conditions. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department]
This woman in her early 20s was trafficked into a blue jean sweatshop, where she and other young women were locked in and made to work 20 hours a day, sleeping on the floor, with little to eat and no pay. She managed to escape and was brought to the government-run Baan Kredtrakarn shelter in Bangkok. After a few days, when she felt safe enough to tell her story to the director, the police were informed and they raided the sweatshop, freeing 38 girls, ages 14-26. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department]
Street kids, runaways, or children living in poverty can fall under the control of traffickers who force them into begging rings. Children are sometimes intentionally disfigured to attract more money from passersby. Victims of organized begging rings are often beaten or injured if they don't bring in enough money. They are also vulnerable to sexual abuse. [photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department] |
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