Did you know …
- there are more slaves today (30 Million worldwide!) than at the height of the Atlantic Slave trade?
- a human being can be sold into slavery for as little as $90 USD? (and resold and resold and resold)
- Human Trafficking is a $32 BILLION Dollar a year business? It’s almost as big as running guns and drugs and far less dangerous.
- around 80% of trafficking involves the sex trade? The rest are forced labor, “bonded” labor and even people used to harvest human organs?
- around 50% of trafficked people are children?
- the punishment for selling a child is far less severe than getting caught with or selling drugs or a gun.
- an estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect.
- UNICEF estimates that 300,000 children younger than 18 are currently trafficked to serve in armed conflicts worldwide.
We discussed these numbers and what they all mean with Katherine. And were then joined by our good friend Dianne who had a few questions of her own. It was a very informative and enlightening show. Check out the show and learn more about this terrible activity and how you can do your part to help stop it. Then visit these sights for even more info …
The Polaris Project
Not For Sale
International Justice Mission
Again, very special thanks to Katherine for being our guest and being so awesome!
12 comments:
Katherine was awesome. Di was awesome, and the show was awesome. Cheers Jayman!!
Matt-Man
Thank you for the opportunity to let more people know about the growing problem of human trafficking...and for the kind words.
Diane was great to talk with...we may have recruited her to join the fight.
Cheers.
This is horrible :(
Edita
http://www.pret-a-reporter.co.uk
you guys are wonderful and awesome is exactly what the show is and what Katherine is
and she's right, I've been recruited
I've found my local chapter of IJM and they appear to really need help so I'll see how I can help them
I shared your link on my blog today
love youse guys
Matt-Man: We can actually be proud of that show! ha
Jay
Katherine: Thanks and anytime! Glad we could do it.
Jay
Fortune Cookie: That's totally my plan too. It's working.
Jay
Edita: Yes it is. It's so very upsetting and depressing.
Jay
Dianne: We are pretty awesome, aren't we? HA! Thanks for calling babe!
Jay
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