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So India's government is officially estimating that there are approximately 1.2 million child prostitutes in their country.In 2009.
What is happening to this world?
The truth is that when you talk to most Americans about "slavery", they think of something that happened long ago that has now been abolished. However, the reality is that modern slavery is not only real, but it is rapidly growing, and today more people are enslaved around the world than ever before.
A recent report put out by the United Nations
claims that most of the world is in denial about the horror of human trafficking. Instead of going away, human slavery is getting even worse and more widespread in the 21st century.Exactly how many people are being trafficked?The U.S. State Department says that there are 800,000 new victims each year, while the International Labor Organization claims that
the number is actually about 2.5 million.
The executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, had this to say about the U.N. report: "It's sick that we should even need to write a report about slavery in the 21st century."
Around 250 sex workers in India's eastern city of Kolkata have, for the first time received life insurance cover from a State-owned corporation.They believe this to be a step forward in their long standing crusade aimed at legalising their profession to help bring them into the mainstream and fight poverty and discrimination."The policy from the Life Insurance Corporation of India may not change much in our life, but this small step is a giant leap forward in our struggle for legal recognition of sex work," Bharati Dey of the Indomitable Women’s Coordination Committee in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, said.
