Today, January 11th is marked as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. For many throughout the U.S. it is known to be thee one day where we place our differences aside and selflessly merge as One Human Voice on behalf of those whose voice has been silenced by inhuman desire and violence.
What is Human Trafficking or to those that hold to the concise phrase, what is Modern Slavery? I’ve heard it best defined in two ways;
1. Slave Trading
Slave Trading can be defined as the process of acquiring, recruiting, harboring, receiving, or transporting an individual, through any means and for any distance, into a condition of slavery or slave-like exploitation.
2. Slavery
Slavery can be defined as the process of corcing labor or other services from a captive individual, through any means, including exploitation of bodies or body parts.
In short and to quote Siddharth Kara, “Sex Trafficking is one of the uglist contemporary actualizations of global capitalism because it was directly produced by the harmful inequalities spread by the process of economic globalization: deepening of rural poverty, increased economic disenfranchisement of the poor, the net extraction of wealth and resources from poor economics into richer ones, and the broad-based erosion of real human freedoms across the developing world. Ending sex trafficking requires an attack on the industry’s immense profitability and a radical shift in the conduct of economic globalization. ”
For more join the JustOne arm of slavery known as One Voice to End Slavery. www.onevoicetoendslavery.com