The Pros And Cons Of Human Trafficking

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The Council of Europe states that “people trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, with a global annual market of about 42.5 billion dollars”. In general, the criminal business feeds on poverty, despair, war, crisis, and ignorance. It is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Human trafficking is the 2nd largest criminal enterprise h=behind narcotics. In 2007, the trafficking industry generated 32 billion dollars...That's more than Nike, Google, and Starbucks combined. In the sex trafficking industry, about 2.5 million people around the world are ensnared in the web of human trafficking at any given time. Human trafficking migration patterns tend to flow from East to West, but women may be trafficked