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Words of human trafficking victims told through Emma Thompson, the ambassador of Action Aid, a human rights organization.
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Facts About Human Trafficking
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If you’re not familiar with this issue, the definition of human trafficking is “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud or deception for thepurpose of exploitation.” In a simpler term, human slavery. There are two main forms of trafficking: sex trafficking and labor trafficking. Women and children under the age of eighteen are more subject to sex trafficking, while men are more subject to labor trafficking.
About Us We are Sarah and Vanessa, 7th grade students at the Marblehead Veterans Middle School. One of our assignments this year in Social Studies class was to research a worldwide problem that was meaningful to us. This assignment is called the “Do Something” project. The objective of this project is to help our cause in any way possible. Together, we decided to raise awareness for the problem known as human trafficking.
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