27 million people live in slavery around the globe.
There are more slaves in bondage today than were bartered in four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade.
80% are female. 50% of all slaves (thats 13.5 million) are children. Many are in the commercial sex industry - including over one million children forced to service multiple partners each day.
Nearly 200,000 people live in slavery at this moment in the United States, and an additional 17,500 victims are trafficked through our boarders each year.
Over 30,000 additional slaves are transported through the U.S. on their way to other international destinations. The slave trade generates $32 billion annually. It's on a path to overtake drugs and arms trafficking as the biggest criminal enterprise on the globe.
The general public is largely unaware of this problem.
The Slave Labor Project exists to end the global epidemic of modern slavery, by bringing the reality of human trafficking to the attention of the general public, raising funds for established antislavery organizations, assisting trafficking victims, and developing innovative methods of identifying and stopping slavery in our own communities and the world.
