Today, most people usually think of slavery in terms of history classes they have taken, or movies they have seen. The fact is, modern slavery is just as real, just as brutal, and just as inhuman as any history book. Modern slavery controls, and in some cases claims, the lives of millions of people across the globe. To give you an idea of what exactly modern slavery looks like, I’ve put together this page, culling statistics from multiple sources to give you the best picture possible. I want to present you with modern slavery facts, so that you know exactly what it is we are facing now:
- in 1850, the cost of a slave (in today’s dollars) was $40,000. In modern slavery, the price of a slave in $30.
- 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders each year.
- According to the United Nations, profits from human trafficking rank it among the top three revenue earners for organized crime, after drugs and arms.
- 80% of these are women and children.
- most common type: debt bondage.
- as many as 2.8 million children live on the streets, a third of whom are lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.
- 12 to 14 is the average age of entry into pornography and prostitution.
- the extreme fringe, children are kidnapped, held in remote camps, and chained at night to prevent their escape. They are put to work on road-building and stone-quarrying.
- there are no clear distinctions between different forms of slavery. The same families and groups of people are often the victims of several kinds of modern slavery-for example, bonded labor, forced labor, child labor or child prostitution-with extreme poverty as a common linking factor.
- child labor, often hard and hazardous, damages health for life, deprives children of education and the normal enjoyment of their early years.
- forcible recruitment of children into military service has been reported in many parts of the world. The consequences are devastating. Many have died or been disabled in armed operations, while others have been interrogated, tortured, beaten, or kept as prisoners of war.
If there’s nothing you can feel about as you read this, maybe you start loosing your heart, just like what i did. This issue often time is seen as a government-thingy. But this is not only that.
Every single we walk across the streets, meet broken-hearted woman or man, see lots of kids on the streets; have you ever thought what their future gonna be looked like? The number of human slavery and trafficking is increasing every single minute; it probably some day be with the people you see everyday. The question is how can we invest in this issue? how can we start?
For sure, we can do nothing. I also still figuring out what can i do to invest in this issue. But let’s start by PRAY! as from prayers come CONVICTION. Pray and ask God, while you keep loving people around you, be all wherever you are! God can do everything on a flip of hand. But He wants to invite me and you to be a part in this great-huge-global-fights!
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