If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
			(William Wilberforce (1759–1833), a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade)

Human trafficking in our globalised world is a problem that transcends borders and has reached enormous proportions.

A 2006 United Nations report on trafficking found that 127 countries have been documented as origins of trafficking and 137 as countries of destination.

People are trafficked to fulfill roles in different sectors such as prostitution, domestic work, agriculture, the garment industry and even begging. They are kept in situations of forced labour and slavery.

People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to being trafficked. Traffickers often use false promises of jobs which will allow them to send money home to their family, a better life, opportunities and education as lures to recruit people.

Fact 1: UNICEF believes that an estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked every year.

Fact 2: Human trafficking generates between $10–12 billion dollars a year.

Fact 3: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms” (Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

Fact 4: The modern-day slave trade that is human trafficking is the fastest-growing form of organised crime.

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