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Children in a Nepalese village which has committed to ending child labor, a prominent form of modern slavery. The Advocacy Project. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Modern Slavery Remains an Issue to Address in the 21st Century

January 6, 2021

More than 40 million people are victims of modern slavery today, roughly 1 in every 200 hundred people alive today. From sex trafficking to forced labor slavery abounds. Some classify the forced labor in the US for-profit prison system as slavery.

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In News and Social Action Tags slavery, Human Trafficking, labor, involuntary servitude, exploitation, sexual violence, justice, freedom, IJM, International Justice Mission, Free the Slaves, UNICEF, CheckOut
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