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Leg ĉi tiu ĵurnalo Slavery Lives on in the United States | Truthout
September 22, 2012, will mark the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation, President Lincoln’s decisive move to abolish slavery nationwide. President Obama echoed this decisive call by declaring January “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.” In January 1, 2013, the FBI Unified Crime Reports will at last feature a “trafficking” category to allow police departments to begin quantifying the size of the problem. Yet, while many can agree on the need to wipe out this abhorrent practice, a large proportion of the US population(1) are unaware of the dramatic rise in human trafficking within the US in recent years: trafficking is actually one of the fastest-growing criminal activities in the world, second only to the drug trade. Many people wrongly assume that human trafficking only refers to sex trafficking and is limited to developing countries on the other side of the world, yet The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children estimates that at least 100,000 American children are the victims of commercial sexual trafficking and prostitution each year. This is in addition to the estimated 14,500-17,500 foreign nationals trafficked into the US each year, according to the Washington DC-based Polaris Project.
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