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Issue 19 | March 14, 2011
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Hollywood actress and United Nations launch grants fund for human trafficking victims

girl ht08 March 2011 - A global industry worth approximately US$ 32 billion. Millions of goods moved all the time. Is this one of today's great corporate success stories? Hardly - this is the illicit world of human trafficking, a major network which sees around 2.4 million women, children and men trapped in slave-like conditions. Through sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude, and child begging, people the world over are held against their will. (Read More)

 

 

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