CAN SLAVERY EXIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY? (part 2)
Human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons is the modern practice of slavery. It is the third largest criminal industry in the world today, after arms and drug dealing. Traffickers generate billions of dollars in profits every year while victimizing millions of people around the globe. Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, men and women.
Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders world wide.
Due to physical and psychological damage caused to victims, they are not able to get a proper education. It leads to decrease in future economic possibilities. The productivity of such labor force is very low.
Human trafficking also reflects living standards of the countries; it is obvious that people from developing countries with a high rate of poor people, unemployment are highly subjected to become victims of human traffickers. Moreover, from other side, this can result in increasing of poverty, the number of illiterate people, in decreasing of GNP, trade turnover, and index of human development…
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To be continued…