It Is National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness
Still there is slavery.
Severe forms of human trafficking:
a. Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
b. The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. [US Department of State: Trafficking in Persons Report 2007]
A good day for my skin to crawl wondering about how many of the products I consume are produced in part by slavery. And for anyone who gets the opportunity to ask their lovable “leaders” if they might do something meaningful about it.
Stump Lane 