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=//Everyone deserves the most basic human right.... Freedom.//=



Slavery still exists in modern day society through the form of Human Sex Trafficking.
media type="youtube" key="pDi6rmo7J00" height="385" width="640" Here are some facts regarding Human Sex Trafficking:
 * Sex trafficking is 90% women and girls.
 * Over 50,000 women are trafficked into the United States every year.
 * Asian women are sold to North American brothels for $16,000 each.
 * 2 million children are forced into prostitution every year. Half of them live in Asia.

According to the U.S. State Department's Annual //Trafficking in Persons Report//, "severe forms of trafficking in persons" are defined as: It is important to know that human trafficking is different from people smuggling. A trafficked victim is a person who has been enslaved, or the terms of debt bondage are fraudulent or highly exploitative. The trafficker **//refuses basic human rights//** to their victims. Victims can be tricked and lured under false pretenses and promises or they can be physically forced, threatened, or have the lives of their families threatened. Some traffickers even use coercive and manipulative tactics such as deception, intimidation, feigned love, isolation, threat, physical force, debt bondage, other abuse, and even the force feeding of drugs to keep their victims under their control.
 * ||  || //(a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or// ||
 * ||  || //(b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.// ||