Contemporary Slavery

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21 million individuals, about 68% are subjected to forced labor, while 22% are subjected to forced sexual exploitation.The remaining 10% are in forms of state-imposed forced labor — working in prisons under conditions that violate labor standards, or forced to participate in rebel armed forces.

To put this in context, 12.5 million Africans were enslaved and taken to America during the transatlantic slave trade, which lasted from 1525 to 1866. Though the 21 million individuals actually represent a lower percentage of the global population than the time of the slave trade, it's still a staggering reality.

However, today's numbers could be even higher, because the number of people in modern slavery is so hard to track.

http://mashable.com/2015/07/30/human-trafficking-facts/#etvFvol3lsqY

Last year, instances of human trafficking were reported in all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C.

In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received multiple reports of human trafficking cases from every state within the U.S. California had the most complaints, with 223 cases reported in 2014.

Sex trafficking is by far the most prevalent form of human trafficking in the U.S.

Of the 1,345 instances of human trafficking reported to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center this year so far, 973 of those instances were related to sex trafficking.