The world wide trade in trafficked persons has increased due to the global financial crisis. The state department report was released Tuesday which features data and statistics from 175 countries around the world that shows the amount of human trafficking that goes on within their countries.
The report says, "A striking global demand for labor and a growing supply of workers willing to take ever greater risks for economic opportunities seem a recipe for increased forced labor cases of migrant workers and women in prostitution."
Most of the trafficking is through African countries but a lot of trafficking is happening in the Middle East as well. There are 52 countries on the watch list whose efforts to combat trafficking are inadequate, but they are making efforts to meet the minimum anti-trafficking standards. Next year the United States will also rank its own effort to combat trafficking, along with the rest of the world.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/16/human.trafficking.report/index.html
This article was easy to read for the most part and it kept my attention. Human trafficking is not something that I hear about all the time and I sometimes forget that things like this are happening in places all over the world. I also had no idea that the United States made 139 arrests and obtained 94 convictions for trafficking in 2008 and this article opened my eyes to what else was happening because of the global financial crisis.
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