Child Slavery and Love146
September 8, 2008
Do you know that:
1. It is estimated that 2 children are sold to trafficker s throughout the third world countries every 2 minutes
2. The United Nations Childrens fund now believes that an average of 1.2 million children are trafficked annually (2006)
3. The Unicef estimates that the total market value for trafficking is around $32 billion. This makes trafficking second largest valued crime in the world after drugs.
4. Approximately 27 million people throughout the world at present are in bonded labor or slavery.
5. In Mississippi, in 1850 an average slave cost the equivalent of $50,000 to $100,000, and the profit per investment was around 5-10%. So slaves had to be taken care of by their masters to prevent any long term injury or disease, which could harm their investment. In India a bonded labor costs around $90 with a profit margin of around 50 %. Now their masters don’t even care what happens to their slaves, when they get crippled or diseased, they just throw them to the dogs.
6. About 14 % of the total under 18 population or around 300,000 children in Haiti, are restaveks, children working as domestic slaves. Thirty percent receive just one meal per day.
These are some of the facts that the United Nations has revealed after widespread study throughout the last two decades. Shocking as they might be, they are true hard, undeniable facts. However since UN is a governing organization, and member nations can’t be forced to take actions, UN has been largely ineffective in taking counter-trafficking measures. Hence, smaller grass-root organizations have grown up to mitigate the situation. Through comprehensive education and reform, organizations such as Free the Slaves and Love146 aim to abolish such 21st century slave trade. Other still smaller scale organizations such as the TheCyberHoodWatch by Bill and Dave, aim to spread the word and make more people involved.
So go ahead today, and become part of this movement, you will find the association much satisfying. And it’s through such small contribution from people like you that the world will finally be free of slavery.
