More on Human Trafficking

Image via WikipediaImage via WikipediaSo much more, I learned about human slavery!  Slavery is illegal in every part of the world, but there are about 27 million people still held in slavery, that is actually more than when slavery was an open acceptable form in societies.  (I should say it was acceptable as long as you were not the slave)  Today, human slavery is much more covert and it is a billion dollar business.

There is different types of slavery:  forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation of children, trafficking which involves transport and/or trade of humans, usually women or children, for economic gain.  Often migrant women and girls are tricked and forced into domestic work and prostitution.

Today people are still bought and sold as commodities.  They are often abducted from their homes, inherited or given as gifts.  This is common in West Africa, particularly Mauritania.

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Please join me and the young ladies at the Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth, N.J. in trying to wipe out human slavery.  To these young women, nothing is impossible with God's help.  Their goal is zero bystanders on the issue of human trafficking.  They are raising the awareness to the problem.  They have gone to the U.N. and talked to Senators.  Knowing that the lack of education leads to the ignorance that allows young people to get caught in human slavery, they begged for donations to building a school in Sierra Leone.  When the young people in Sierra Leone could not go to the newly built school because of lack of water, the Benedictine students got more donations and had a water pump built so the they could go to school.

See what these amazing students have done on their website www.benedictineacad.org  Look under Campus ministry, then under human trafficking.