According to the International Labor Organization’s 2016 Global estimates of modern slavery: forced labour and forced marriage,

• 40 million people were victims of modern slavery, coming to about 5.4 people enslaved for every 1,000.
• 150 billion dollars were generated annually from human trafficking.
• “In the past five years, 89 million people experienced some form of modern slavery from periods of time ranging from a few days to the whole five years.”

The statistics surrounding the global issue of human trafficking are overwhelming. For the next three blog posts, I will be discussing human trafficking and the different ideas for combatting it. There are three main paths in fighting this issue that I have seen nonprofits take in my research:

• Awareness,
• Legal Justice, and
• Upstream Poverty Alleviation.

Please feel free to leave your thoughts and any experiences that you may have relating to this topic.