It’s not just sex

Forced Labor is much more rampant than sex trafficking. In fact, 65% of the world’s slaves are in a forced labor situation. [1]

Watch what you eat

90% of companies shipping shrimp to the U.S. use some type of bonded or forced labor to produce it. [2]

Kids killing other kids

There are up to 200,000 children who are forced to be soldiers in the world today.[3]

They’re criminals, so that’s un-taxed money

Traffickers make $150 billion in profits a year. [4]

That was only 33 years ago

Chattel slavery didn’t end until 1981. Mauritania was the last country to outlaw it. [5]

Not always a stranger

According to the UN 46% of victims worldwide know their trafficker. [6]

Slaves have even less value today

The average cost of a slave today is $90. Compare that to 1809 when average the price was $40,000. [7]

It’s not just girls

400,000 men and boys are being sexually exploited globally.[8]

Governments do it too

10% of those in forced labor are in state-imposed forms of forced labor (prisons or work imposed by the state military or armed forces). [9]

14 million

Almost half of the world’s slaves are found in India.[10]

Topics: Forced Labor, Sex Trafficking, Bonded Labor, Child Labor, Awareness