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Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. We like to think that slavery was abolished a century and a half ago. Unfortunately, slavery still exists around the world–even in the United States. According to End Slavery Now, There are an estimated 20.9 Million people trapped in some form of slavery today. It’s sometimes called “Modern-Day … Read more

Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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There are more people in slavery today than at any time in history! January is Slavery & Trafficking Prevention Month and January 11th is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. According to Free the Slaves, Although there are more people in slavery today than ever before, slavery represents the smallest percentage of the world’s population than at … Read more

Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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According to Free the Slaves, 21 to 36 million people are enslaved around the world, 22% of them sex slaves. Trafficking doesn’t just happen in Thailand or India–it happens right here in the United States, and it happens to helpless children and vulnerable women. It’s hard to get a handle on exactly how many sex … Read more

Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Modern day slavery doesn’t mean men, women, and children picking cotton under the watchful eye of the plantation overseer, although forced agricultural labor is one form of slavery. More often, slavery today means a young girl being held captive and forced to work as a prostitute for a controlling pimp. Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. … Read more

Human Trafficking Awareness Day 2013

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Do you think that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation? Most of the time when we think of human trafficking, we think of people brought from Africa to work in the Southern plantations before the Civil War. Thanks to God and brave abolitionists, that ended long ago. Unfortunately, that didn’t mean the end of human … Read more

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Didn’t Abraham Lincoln end slavery 149 years ago with the Emancipation Proclamation? Fortunately for slaves on Southern plantations, yes. Unfortunately for many other slaves around the world, no. According to the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST): There are more slaves in the world today than at any point in history. Slavery is more … Read more