Human Trafficking is High Profit Business

Human Trafficking is not a usual topic of discussion that comes up at the dinner table or for that matter in most daily discussions. The truth is that Human Trafficking is a horrid reality for millions of people who are bought and sold daily through-out the world. The words are ugly and the life is uglier still. After selling drugs and gun running, trafficking in human beings is the third largest business world-wide. The profit to be made is huge and it's victims are mostly women and children. The profit to be made in trafficking humans is around 5 billion to 7 billion dollars a year.

The definition of Human Trafficking is as follows: Victims who are forced,defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation without giving the victim a choice. Each year somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 mostly women and children, are trafficked across national borders. This does not count the millions who are bought and sold in their own countries. Most victims are chained, shackled or prevented from returning to their homes through the use of force. There are around 10 million or more women and children who are living at risk of violence daily somewhere in the world because of illegal slavery.

London-born actress, Julia Ormond 42 , recently gave her support to Anti-Drug Trafficking Groups and appealed to police agencies world-wide to share information and resources among each other, concerning the statistics of human trafficking. This appeal came after only one day past the anniversary of Britain's Anti-Slavery Law. The goal of Miss Ormond is to "Improve enforcement of the United Nationsand their 2003 Treaty Against Human Trafficking." Miss Ormond starred with Harrison Ford in the 1995 movie, "Sabrina."

The United States Congress has stated that, "People are being deprived of their human rights and freedoms. It is a global health crisis and it fuels the growth of world-wide organized crime." The United States has passed the following legislation:

American's who travel abroad to sexually prey on children will be prosecuted and sentenced to as many as thirty years in prison.