A significant number of people believe that slavery ended in 1863, when in fact, modern slavery exists in every corner of the globe. Not just in remote parts of Southeast Asia, but in your hometown, in your backyard.  In America, there are 60,000 men, women, and children enslaved at this very moment.

There are an estimated 21 million people enslaved today, 4.5 million of which are in the sex industry.

Interestingly, reports estimate that 30% to 40% of this is unregulated traffic. It is unclear how much of this migration flow is human trafficking, but it is clear that at the very least, a significant portion of it is.

An amplification in the demand for domestic servants in developed countries combined with unemployment of women in developing countries has seen the growth of entire organized crime gangs devoted to fulfilling this need, albeit illegally.

according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), sexual exploitation is the “most commonly-identified form of human trafficking.”

Asia has the largest sex trafficking rate in the whole world. Over the past three decade alone, there have been more than a thirty million people traded

These people can be of all ages, as young as five even, but the usual age and gender is a female from eighteen to twenty four years of age. Ninety eight percent are females though, which is the more popular gender, but fifty two percent of the recruiters are men, forty two percent are woman, and the remaining percent is both male and female.

the victim is first sold to someone for a price as high as one thousand dollars or kept for their own profit. Once they are in the brothel or other place, if they are a virgin or only have had sex a couple of times, they are rapes numerous times until they can no longer pass as one. After wards you are put to work, told to make at least five hundred dollars a day or get beaten

Every year, millions of men, women and children in Asia venture to new places in search of a better life.

Human trafficking is on the rise in Asia as people flee poverty and conflict

Women and children are the most vulnerable. They are used for commercial sex, domestic labor and construction work.