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Slavery rebranded with paperwork, hiding in plain sight behind nail salons and farm fields.
means The trade in something illegal or exploited — most damningly the buying, selling, and forced movement of human beings for labor or sex.
from From "traffic," which entered English in the early 1500s from French "trafique" and Italian "traffico," meaning commerce, trade, the movement of goods. Its deeper roots are murky — possibly the verb "trafficare," to trade or peddle, though no one is certain how that word itself was built. For centuries "traffic" simply meant the flow of business and, later, the flow of vehicles. The grim "-ing" sense — dealing in things that ought never be dealt in, like drugs, weapons, and people — grew from the older idea that traffic is anything moved and sold, no matter how monstrous the cargo.
- Scale
- An estimated 27 million people trapped worldwide
- Profit
- Generates roughly 150 billion dollars yearly
- Hidden
- Most victims trafficked by someone they know
- Forced labor
- Outnumbers sex trafficking globally by far
- Borders
- Many victims never leave their own country
operation broken heart — fbi sting that rescued 84 children from sex trafficking in 2013
polaris project — us nonprofit operating the national human trafficking hotline since 2007, receiving 50,000+ calls annually
thailand mekong subregion — southeast asian region accounting for estimated 250,000+ trafficking victims across borders annually
operation onymous — 2014 fbi and europol coordinated takedown of dark web trafficking marketplaces, arresting 17 operators