11 Facts About Modern Day Slavery
It’s not just sex
Forced Labor is much more rampant than sex trafficking. In fact, 65% of the world’s slaves are in a forced labor situation. [1]
Watch what you eat
90% of companies shipping shrimp to the U.S. use some type of bonded or forced labor to produce it. [2]
Kids killing other kids
There are up to 200,000 children who are forced to be soldiers in the world today.[3]
They’re criminals, so that’s un-taxed money
Traffickers make $150 billion in profits a year. [4]
That was only 33 years ago
Chattel slavery didn’t end until 1981. Mauritania was the last country to outlaw it. [5]
Not always a stranger
According to the UN 46% of victims worldwide know their trafficker. [6]
Slaves have even less value today
The average cost of a slave today is $90. Compare that to 1809 when average the price was $40,000. [7]
It’s not just girls
400,000 men and boys are being sexually exploited globally.[8]
Governments do it too
10% of those in forced labor are in state-imposed forms of forced labor (prisons or work imposed by the state military or armed forces). [9]
14 million
Almost half of the world’s slaves are found in India.[10]
What about you?
While looking up these facts, I found out that 35 slaves work for me. How many work for you? http://slaveryfootprint.org/