needed now as a modern day abolitionist.
Yes, you.
“Human trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of them children under the age eighteen. After researching this dirty, miserable, fast-growing and highly profitable business, David Batstone, according to Bono, “profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are leading the struggle to end this appalling epidemic.”
Following up on my recommendation of the book, Illicit, read Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade and How We Can Stop It.
Batstone begins his book:
Twenty-seven million slaves exist in our world today. Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug looms of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break rocks in the quarries of Pakistan, and fight wars in the jungles of Africa. Go behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today and you are likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.
As Jim Wallis suggests, you can make a difference.
