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Not So Ancient: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

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A resource for youth and adults seeking to live out their faith in a tangible and impacting way. Readers will learn to recognize the many forms of human trafficking, realize that human trafficking is encroaching across Canada, and begin to understand God’s heart and desire to see His children take action in a way that “activates” God’s mission and call in our lives. This resource is for those who are tired of the status quo and are ready to live out God’s call for justice.


What is Human Trafficking?

Human Trafficking is the modern day denial of basic human rights of men, women and children around the globe.  Human Trafficking leads to modern slavery and is second only to trafficking in drugs and weapons as the world's largest crime, according to the UN.  As a formal definition, a report for the United Nationas Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking states:

"Trafficking in persons' shall mean the recruitment, transportation, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control for another person, for the purpose of exploitation"

Human Trafficking involves the deception of vulnerable people by traffickers in order to take them from their home and bring them to a place where they are taken advantage of constantly without any hope of escape.  Human Trafficking may be difficult to detect while victims are in transit because often enslavement and exploitation do not begin until arrival at the destination.  With the promises of better work opportunites and a better standard of living for themselves or family most victioms go willingly with their traffickers only to become trapped upon arrival.  Human Trafficking leads to the enslavement of men, women and children, held against their will and forced to perform services, whether physical or sexual, at the mercy of their controller.