Modern Day Slavery Vs Contemporary Slavery

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Contemporary slavery or modern day slavery consists of sex slavery/trade, early forced marriages, child labor, and more. Women and girls have the greater risk of being trafficked because women usually get lured in by false promises from the attacker, victims get drugged, or they get into the sex trade business or prostitution to pay off their debt from something. Numerous victims are runaway girls who have been abused or sexually abused as a child. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime “Women make up two thirds of the world's human trafficking victims […] The percentage of identified male victims is disproportionately lower than that of women for a number of reasons, including the fact that for many years anti-human trafficking

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