Girls Gone Wild in Amsterdam’s Red Light District?
9 May
A clever campaign and an unimaginable injustice we encounter everyday – whether we know it or not. The waitress at the restaurant, the hands that made our clothes, the child forced to work to produce the chocolate we enjoy…
Human Trafficking – The Facts
- The U.N estimates that 2.5 million people from 127 countries have been trafficked to 137 countries for purposes such as forced labour, sexual exploitation, removal of organs, forced marriages, child adoption and begging.
- According to UNICEF, 2 million children will be sold into the sextrade in the next year.
- In South East Asia, many of these children are sold for as little as $50 and some as young as 6 years old.
- Profits from sex slavery exceed US9.5 billion per year.
- Human trafficking is the second largest organised crime in the world. It has become a bigger business than drug trafficking.
- Human trafficking victims are subject to rape, torture, forced abortions, starvation and threats to family members.
If you’d like to learn more, get involved or simply support great organisations working hard to end modern day slavery, check out:
Stop the Traffik
Not for Sale
Call & Response
Project Futures
Slavery Footprint
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