Modern Day Slavery: Spotlight on the 2006 "Trafficking in Persons Report," Forced Labor and Sex Trafficking at the World Cup

Authors

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations

Date of this Version

6-2006

Comments

Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, June 2006.

Abstract

The Subcommittee will hear expert testimony today concerning the scourge of human trafficking—modern-day slavery. As I know many people know by now, the United States Government estimates that between 600,000 to 800,000 women, children, and men are brought and sold across international borders each year and exploited through forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. Potentially millions more are trafficked internally within the borders of countries.