Modern Day Slavery And Human Trafficking
How is it that an industry generates $32 billion annually by violating human’s rights? It’s a form of modern day slavery, Human Trafficking effecting 21 million women/men and children globally. These innocent victims are sexually exploited, forced into labour work against their own will. The traffickers use threat, manipulative tactics to force these vulnerable victims to work for the exploiters selfish desire to earn wealth. It’s a disgrace to humanity.
What would it feel like having someone else claim your body as their property? What would it feel like being sold repeatedly to be abused as sexual slaves? 80% of trafficked women and children are sold for less than $100. The average age is 12-14. They are trafficked in their own country and sent out internationally. Here’s a story of a 13 year old girl who was lured into prostitution through Facebook. …show more content…
68% of human trafficking is forced labour. So, what do you do on a day-day basis? 168 million children would respond between the lines of “I work 10-16 hours a day in fatal work places in order to live”! Those children in India provide us with soccer balls, clothing, and carpets. The kids in Ghana work to supply us with cocoa, fish and gold. That’s not all, children in the Philippines provide us with bananas and coconuts and we just take it all for granted. We wouldn’t even bother taking a minute to think of where everything we have comes from, those children pour their hearts out working to create these products and we don’t even know it. 12 year old Bithi from Bangladesh creates a minimum of 480 jeans per day and earns $1.In 20012 the US imported handmade carpets from India worth $306 million, but the average hourly wage for those carpet workers was $0.21. Let me ask you would you have the capability to work 10-16 hours a day in degraded work places with frequent beating and roughly 2 meals a day? We wouldn’t, then why do we think children under the age of 15
What would it feel like having someone else claim your body as their property? What would it feel like being sold repeatedly to be abused as sexual slaves? 80% of trafficked women and children are sold for less than $100. The average age is 12-14. They are trafficked in their own country and sent out internationally. Here’s a story of a 13 year old girl who was lured into prostitution through Facebook. …show more content…
68% of human trafficking is forced labour. So, what do you do on a day-day basis? 168 million children would respond between the lines of “I work 10-16 hours a day in fatal work places in order to live”! Those children in India provide us with soccer balls, clothing, and carpets. The kids in Ghana work to supply us with cocoa, fish and gold. That’s not all, children in the Philippines provide us with bananas and coconuts and we just take it all for granted. We wouldn’t even bother taking a minute to think of where everything we have comes from, those children pour their hearts out working to create these products and we don’t even know it. 12 year old Bithi from Bangladesh creates a minimum of 480 jeans per day and earns $1.In 20012 the US imported handmade carpets from India worth $306 million, but the average hourly wage for those carpet workers was $0.21. Let me ask you would you have the capability to work 10-16 hours a day in degraded work places with frequent beating and roughly 2 meals a day? We wouldn’t, then why do we think children under the age of 15