statisics/facts.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Grace T on January 9, 2009 at 1:49am

ok just found this one so i'll get this started.
there are 27 million slave in the world today.
there are more slaves now, then ever before in human history!

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Catie B. on January 14, 2009 at 5:17pm

"an estimated 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year; approximately 50 per cent of all victims are children; 126 million children work in the worst forms of child labour - one in every 12 of the world's five- to seventeen-year-olds; there are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers involved in over 30 areas of conflict worldwide, some younger than 10 years old."
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/modern.day.slavery.never.agai...

Found some =]

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by cindy on March 4, 2009 at 8:01pm

1.2 million children are trafficked every year
Estimate by UNICEF


At least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide. Of these 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking. A global alliance against forced labor, International Labour Organisation, 2005
Human trafficking in the second largest source of illegal income worldwide exceeded only by drugs trafficking. (belser 2005)


It is the fastest growing form of international crime, already generating in excess of 31 billion dollars per year in criminal proceeds. International labor organization (ILO)

http://www.stopthetraffik.org/humantrafficking/problem.aspx

• ▶ Reply

▶ Reply to Discussion