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We need to make human trafficking known to the public, it's an issue that most of us don't realize or even think about raising awareness on it helps prevent it but we need to become educated in it. Human trafficking is not only in the sexual seance it can be in every way from the guy delivering your Chinese food to the girl doing your nails. It's not only about the woman selling sex is about slavery modern day slavery which is exactly what human trafficking is.

Maria, I just heard a story on NPR this afternoon about a sizeable grant being awarded to a nonprofit whose mission is will be to help people who have been freed from "slavery," here in Boston. Remind me, and I will try to find it for you online.

Miami is supposable the major port for transporting sex slaves people are being bought from there and take around the world. also they come through here so they can be sold around the usa. human trafficking and slavery are pretty much the same thing, revenues from worldwide human trafficking exceed $32 billion dollars.

32 Billion dollars - wow! That turns my stomach.

The understanding that human trafficking doesn't have a color, status or age it can happen to anyone. This people didn't chose to be slaves most we're kidnapped force into it or had no other choice. But the efforts are being made to give this issue more awareness and let people get educated on the issue.

Human trafficking is the fastest growing illegal business in the United States, the refuse to accept this fact. They want to let all the "johns" that have participated in human trafficking that their identity will be know to the public everyone will know what they've done. Unlike drugs people can be sold over and over, they want to out an end to this they have zero tolerance for human trafficking.

The second largest and fastest-growing criminal industry in the world is human sex trafficking. Millions of people, many of them young girls and boys, are victimized by those who are reaping billions of dollars in profits. 100,000 children are estimated to be in the sex trade in the United States each year. According to an article in The Guardian, three out of every 1,000 people worldwide are victims of sex trafficking, which is a form of slavery.

the government tries to see people that are being put through human trafficking as prostitutes, many times we do this we just assume that the victim is really not a victim but a criminal. when the truth is that they need help and need laws that will protect them, instead of judging them.

The major impact that human trafficking is and how much of us included myself where blinded to it, we don't see how big the problem is. Many people don't realize how we have modern day slaves in the 21st century against their will regular people being sold like meat form money.

It was going on 5:30 p.m. in Nairobi, Kenya, when Fiachra Kearney called into the "Talk Back" radio program on KGVO. His call wasn't unexpected, and for the next hour, the conversation focused on the nuances of human trafficking. It's a subject Kearney knows well.