http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/07/trafficking-and-slavery-in-the-us/ The largest network of Foreign Policy blogs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/07/trafficking-and-slavery-in-the-us/#comment-1730 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:25:26 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/04/07/trafficking-and-slavery-in-the-us/#comment-1730 [...] While the efforts and scale of the Innocence Lost Initiative are grand, the full scale of the problem remains even more imposing than one could imagine.  The US government has stated that there are some 17,500 victims of sex trafficking in the United States each year, more than half of which are children.  Just how many more have been funneled through this high commodities market over the years is unknown, and each child is one child too many.  Please see my previous article,Trafficking and Slavery in the US, for more information. [...] […] While the efforts and scale of the Innocence Lost Initiative are grand, the full scale of the problem remains even more imposing than one could imagine.  The US government has stated that there are some 17,500 victims of sex trafficking in the United States each year, more than half of which are children.  Just how many more have been funneled through this high commodities market over the years is unknown, and each child is one child too many.  Please see my previous article,Trafficking and Slavery in the US, for more information. […]

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