TeleSUR Reports – Modern Sexual Slavery

People are used for hard labor or forced to sell their bodies against their will, under physical and psychological threats. This is human trafficking. Chapter I of the report give hard data on modern day sexual slavery and describes how human trafficking operates as a Western neoliberal model with international networks in which impunity for the traffickers prevails. Every year between 600,000 and 800,000 people are moved through international borders to be subjected to white slavery networks. As many as 13% of the victims in Europe come from South America. It is estimated that 1 in 7 women working in prostitution in Europe are victims of human trafficking. In 46% of the cases the traffickers are close to the victims or even related to them. The report also describes the treatment of the victims, psychological motivations and effects common in both victims and clients, the lives of women after being subjected to modern sexual slavery, and the willful blindness of the general public with regards to the reality of human trafficking.