"After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world."

"After weapons and drugs, human trafficking is the third most lucrative criminal enterprise in the world."

This statement, referring to three atrocious man-made murdering tools, appears on the presentation page of the multimedia web project on sex trafficking, The Price of Sex, a huge task undertaken by Bulgarian photojournalist Mimi Chakarova.

There are indeed millions of human beings who have fallen prey to human trafficking, a euphemism for slavery. And the outrageous fact is that the demand for slaves is rapidly increasing as the global economic and financial crisis generates more poverty, unemployment and hunger among the poorest of the poor who are in desperate need to survive at any cost.


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