Human Trafficking is the act of illegal trading of persons for bonded labor, forced labor, or domestic servitude through kidnapping, threatening and deceit. These traffickers don’t care about the age, ethnicity, or gender of the person, it’s all about money for them. In today’s world, the term slavery is more apt to offend someone and hurt their feelings, so we often call it “human trafficking” “undocumented immigration” and other nicknames that come across less repulsive, but nonetheless it is still slavery at it’s core. Kevin Bales, the co-founder and former president of Free the Slaves (a sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organization) estimates that a mind-boggling twenty seven million victims currently in slavery worldwide. In his revelational new book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Bales furthers his thesis that the majority of modern day slavery has become a quasi-industrialized institution; a harsh, yet extremely effective and well-paying way of entrapment, injustice and abandonment. These slaves are drawn and/or abducted from their homes, intimidated (both physically and psychologically), forced to work in inhumane conditions and kicked out to the streets when they are too old or sick to work any longer. Modern slavery is much more discreet, the
Human Trafficking is the act of illegal trading of persons for bonded labor, forced labor, or domestic servitude through kidnapping, threatening and deceit. These traffickers don’t care about the age, ethnicity, or gender of the person, it’s all about money for them. In today’s world, the term slavery is more apt to offend someone and hurt their feelings, so we often call it “human trafficking” “undocumented immigration” and other nicknames that come across less repulsive, but nonetheless it is still slavery at it’s core. Kevin Bales, the co-founder and former president of Free the Slaves (a sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organization) estimates that a mind-boggling twenty seven million victims currently in slavery worldwide. In his revelational new book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Bales furthers his thesis that the majority of modern day slavery has become a quasi-industrialized institution; a harsh, yet extremely effective and well-paying way of entrapment, injustice and abandonment. These slaves are drawn and/or abducted from their homes, intimidated (both physically and psychologically), forced to work in inhumane conditions and kicked out to the streets when they are too old or sick to work any longer. Modern slavery is much more discreet, the