A young boy working in a mine.

"There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa
in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade" (Cockburn)

Human trafficking exploits labor through transportation, sales and/or recruitment.

211 million children from the ages of 5 to 14 were at work in the year 2000.

That number has risen by an estimated 40 million in the past six years.

Twenty-seven million people around the world are enslaved.

An estimated 10 million children are enslaved.

One to two million children are forced into the commercial sex trade yearly.

*For the purposes of exposing child exploitation I place child labor and child slavery next
to each other because they both are the exploitation of children and many of industries
that use child labor also are involved in the slavery of those and other children*