Thursday, June 20, 2013

STOP THE TRAFFIC - DAY 26

Fifty-Five Little Known Facts about Human Trafficking

For the next few days I will share these facts.  We'll focus on a few a day so that you can cover them in prayer.  The source for this is:  http://facts.randomhistory.com/human-trafficking-facts.html

Here are facts 36-40:
   
  1. According to the FBI, a large human-trafficking organization in California in 2008 not only physically threatened and beat girls as young as 12 to work as prostitutes, they also regularly threatened them with witchcraft.e
  2. Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that is fueled by poverty and gender discrimination.k
  3. Human traffickers often work with corrupt government officials to obtain travel documents and seize passports.i
  4. Women and girls from racial minorities in the U.S. are disproportionately recruited by sex traffickers in the U.S.l
  5. The Sunday Telegraph in the U.K. reports that hundreds of children as young as six are brought to the U.K. as slaves each year.m
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