Trafficking also at an all time high.

According to our friends at Concerned Women for
America:


CWA: Human Trafficking Now Tied for World’s #2 Crime
Second to Drug Dealing as Largest and Fastest-Growing

Washington, D.C.—Concerned Women for America (CWA)
is saddened by a United Nations report that says human
trafficking has tied illegal arms dealing as the world’s
second largest and fastest-growing criminal enterprise,
behind only illicit drug trading.

Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, Senior Fellow of Concerned
Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, said,
“Combating trafficking is like running on a treadmill;
we are moving as fast as we can, but it is almost
impossible for our programs to keep up with the
destructive path of the criminal networks involved
in human trafficking.”

The U.N. report declares that nearly 30 million
people are caught in modern-day slavery and that
the industry now brings its criminals about $10
billion a year. With victims bought and sold over
the Internet on such popular sites as eBay and
Craig’s List, trafficking victims in the United States
number over 50,000 –– one-third of these are
assumed to be children. Human trafficking includes
sex trafficking, forced marriage, and labor trafficking,
such as sweatshops, migrant workers and
domestic service.

Dr. Crouse, who has worked for nearly a decade
to combat sex trafficking at the national and
international levels, commented, “While the U.N.
blames social and economic disparities for
fostering trafficking, the demand for prostitutes
is the driving force behind sex trafficking where
the victims overwhelmingly are women and girls.”

Crouse adds, “In the United States Congress,
legislators are working to end the demand for
‘sex slaves,’ and more and more states are
passing legislation that will target pimps and
johns rather than further punish the victims.
They are used as a lucrative commodity in sex
transactions, often being sold repeatedly until
they are completely used up.”

Crouse concludes that, in the United States,
public policy addresses both the prosecution
of criminals engaged in human trafficking and
the protection of vulnerable women and girls
who are potential victims of sex trafficking.

Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the
nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.

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