Human Trafficking
With an estimated 27 million people caught in the web of human trafficking, there are more humans in slavery today than ever before. According to the nonprofit supply chain slavery abolition group Made in a Free World, a slave is “anyone who is forced to work without pay, being economically exploited, and who is unable to walk away.”3 Slavery includes all forms of involuntary servitude, but is especially prevalent in situations where unscrupulous employers exploit workers rendered vulnerable by adverse local conditions such as unemployment, poverty, corruption, and so on. “Immigrants are particularly vulnerable, but individuals also may be forced into labor in their own countries. Female victims ...
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