WildB
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The following statistics are gathered from an article in the Christian Science Monitor:
Today, every country has a law against slavery
Between 14,000 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the US annually
In 1850, the cost of a slave (in today’s dollars) was $40,000. In modern slavery, the price of a slave in $30.
600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders each year.
According to the United Nations, profits from human trafficking rank it among the top three revenue earners for organized crime, after drugs and arms.
A final note on disparity in modern slavery statistics made by The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trafficking in Persons: Global Patterns report, April 2006:
“Due to its clandestine nature, accurate statistics on the magnitude of the human trafficking problem at any level are elusive and unreliable. Figures that are available range from the actual number of victims rescued or repatriated to estimates of the total number of trafficked victims in existence. The lack of reliable statistics can be attributed to a number of factors… [One of these problems] is the tendency to, often unknowingly, mix data related to human trafficking, migrant-smuggling and irregular migration, which convolutes the true human trafficking picture. In addition, data is often collected only on cases of trans-border human trafficking and not on internal human trafficking.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0901/p16s01-wogi.html
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